Your Own Personal Jesus

Date: 5/4/2010
Watching: LA Lakers vs. Utah Jazz, Game 2, Round 2
The TNT Studio show is a fascinating study in race relations. Charles Barkley, Kenny "The Jet" Smith, and Ernie Johnson, Jr., who is the whitest white guy in the world, doesn't appear to be that knowledgeable about basketball, and, to re-iterate, is named "Ernie".

Flipped over to the A's for a second, they were saying what you missed if you'd been watching the Sharks win in overtime (which I was, it was kind of exhilirating, they were down 3-1 in the third and came back to win it 4-3 in overtime). And that caused me to think about the fact that it seems to be the general consensus that the A's are probably going to move to San Jose. And I thought, "I wonder if they would ever move the Reds?" And you know what? My immediate reaction was NOT, "Baseball would never move the REDS, the first professional baseball team, a fanbase which has delivered consistently moderate attendance despite the fact that the team hasn't been any good for FIFTEEN YEARS, and doesn't really give any indication that it ever will be again." No, my first reaction was, "that would suck." Which is pretty shameful. Not that there's anything anybody can do about it. If they decide to move the team, they will, and that will be that. I guess sports fans aren't masochistic, necessarily, just bottoms. They like to sacrifice their pleasure to the whims of others. Because there IS a twisted pleasure in supporting a losing team, and everybody knows it. If we wanted to fool them, we'd have to not go to baseball games in August when the team's been out of it for 7 weeks already and there's still 7 to go; or selling out UD Arena to see a team that won 10 games COMBINED over two seasons, or actually voting to RAISE TAXES (in CINCINNATI!!!) in order to keep a team that was universally acknowledged as the WORST team in football from leaving town. And that's why the owners can always say to us, "What? You know you want it." And we do.