THE STUPID WILD CARD CELEBRATIONS
The general profile of athletes – now more so than ever and encompassing the majority of them across all sports – is that they are brainless oafs. That profile is certainly spot-on with the incomprehensible celebrating of winning a first round wild card playoff berth in Major League Baseball.
More than incomprehensible – it is downright stupid. STUPID. Nothing is achieved at all. This joke – now – that is called the wild card amounts to nothing more than the chance to play in the playoffs. Well, what the hell were the 162 games played other than a chance for post-season play? And now, to have it come down to 1 game. That is an achievement? It should be considered as a penalty for not getting the deal done over the 162. These morons should be embarrassed – particularly teams that anointed themselves as the greatest team in the history of baseball (and you know who you are) – and should be treating it as a funeral and not a wedding. It is enjoyable to watch them make absolute fools of themselves for achieving nothing.
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Baseball is a great game – the best game – with so much history and tradition as well as the heavy hand of the baseball gods who decide who will win. And the best team does not always win. Weird plays, unexpected heroes, underperforming stars, missed calls, weather, fan interference, unforgivable errors on routine plays, and injuries all play into the outcome of the games – courtesy of the baseball gods. And all baseball people know it.
And so to pop a cork before anything has is earned or achieved is fodder for the baseball gods. If not just because it is but absolutely for stupidity alone. Anything can happen in a single elimination game. And if you lose, what have you achieved? Sierra Foxtrot Alpha. Instead of being stupid, they should be getting mentally ready to for that one game that determines their season’s fate. Because so far, they have won diddley squat.
Real champions look to the winning the title, not the preliminary round and don’t celebrate winning nothing. They only pat themselves on the back as encouragement to look to the next victory on the path to the crown. Because real champions have been there before and don’t think that a booby prize is worth celebrating.
That is what a real champion does and what a real ballplayer would do.