"I Hate the Way I Watch Games"

That was a quote from one of the recent Sklarbro Country podcast episodes. Jason & Randy Sklar do a fine job of mixing comedy, sports, and all around awesomeness in their podcasts. I am particularly fond of the way they are confessional about their sports-watching.

They are huge University of Michigan football fans and St. Louis Cardinals fans (consequently, I have had to turn it off when they start talking about the Cards because it almost always comes around to the 2011 World Series, which almost always comes around to Game Six. Still ain't over it. Probably never will be.

Anyway, a number of times, they have talked about their passion (over-the-top passion) for sports. I completely understand what they are talking about. So on the episode that this quote comes from, they talk about their emotions while watching Wolverines football. They are either ecstatic over the way their team is playing . . . or furious over the way their team is playing. They noted that rarely, if ever, do their emotions have to do with the way the other team is playing.

That's so true, at least I know it is for me. When I watch games, my emotions rarely have anything to do with the other team. For instance, my normal way of doing things would be to go crazy when the Cowboys score tonight and to be furious when they give up a touchdown to the Giants tonight (I expect many of those). So when they lose (which is my prediction), I am prone to blame everything on the Cowboys, rather than praise the job the Giants did. Same goes for the Rangers. If they win tonight, it's because they're awesome. If they lose, it's because they're horrible, not because of the Royals' greatness. Well that may be a bad example. "Royals" and "greatness" doesn't really go all that well together.

I would do better to allow more for what happens from the other team, not just what happens to my team. Unless the Yankees are playing. The Yankees deserve no credit :)