Speaking as a lover of baseball, the season isn't quite over (waiting for the World Series), but speaking as a Cubs fan, the season has been over for some time, and all I can say about how the season turned out is that I know full well the world has gone mad.
No, it wasn't the ascendancy of Barack Obama to the White House, it wasn't the chaos dominating Europe, it wasn't all the Occupy protests taking place on Wall Street and elsewhere, it was something far more insidious than the others combined.
The Cubs finished one game behind the Pirates in the regular season. One game. Behind. The Pittsburgh. Pirates.
I wish I were kidding, but no, one of the most notorious cellar dwellers in the National League (if not the whole of Major League Baseball) finished a game ahead of the Cubs. Ahead! It was bad enough (maddening enough, in fact) to see the Pirates maintain a double-digit lead over the Cubs during much of the regular season, but after the Cubs had a stronger second half (and the Pirates went down in the NL Central rankings), they still finished one game behind the Pirates!
Don't ask me how this could have possibly happened. All I can do is quote iconic cartoon characters: AAAAUGH!!!!
Meanwhile, pro football has been under way for weeks, and thanks to the dispute which took place in the NFL between the players and team owners, a dispute which almost put the kibosh on the season itself has soured my interest completely. Soured enough, as a matter of fact, I've begun paying attention on the new NHL season, which has just started (I'm also aiming to see a Komets game or two).
Mind you, I haven't sworn off football altogether; I'll be checking out the occasional college game, but right now, I don't care to read how the Cowboys, Raiders, Packers, Steelers or any other team is doing, and I especially have no interest in reading about the latest exploits of the players. The same also goes for pro basketball; I'm just not interested right now in what's going on in that arena (don't worry, I'll probably watch a college game here and there, and hopefully attend a Mad Ants game if I can).
Bottom line, once the World Series ends, my interests will keep me focused on the ice arenas of America and Canada.
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