Nothing gets baseball fans more excited than the umps completely fucking up! Remind me why video replay is so limited in the MLB again?

The same thing happens to me every baseball season: I get extremely excited as the preseason approaches, I watch the first 20-30 games religiously, I get really into first half MVP projections and All Star ballots, and then in mid summer completely tune out the baseball season. It happens every season, almost without thinking about it. And its not as if there is even another sport on yet, football is still months away. So why KC? How the fuck can you justify ignoring America’s favorite pastime and consider yourself a sports fan?

That’s easy… there are just soo many things that are more entertaining than watching the same game 182 times.

Here is a short list of things I did this summer instead of watch baseball. And I was unemployed half the summer, so its not like I needed to prioritize my time effectively.

1) Went out drinking… alot. (Remember, I was unemployed half the time)

2) Read 4 books. (Dinner with Mugabe, Churchill, Brisingr, and Game of Rivals)

3) Played Wiffle Ball. (I hit an abysmal .120 in the summer league)

4) Wrote on this site.

(here is when things start getting less legit)

5) Talked to my parents about career advice

6) Watched “So You Think You Can Dance”

7) Watched the Disney Channel (Miley Cyrus!)

8 ) Talked to my brothers about feelings, girls, and emtional shit like that. (No homo)

9) Napped

There are several more, but I figured I’d spare you the pain, the point is baseball got really boring after about 80 games and I relalized the season was only half way over! The baseball season is like the fucking Cold War of sports, kind of interesting at points and heavily publicized when it was going on but when you think about it, it’s actually pretty fucking boring.

Thank god for the playoffs! It’s like a shortened football season, a second baseball season in which winning and losing a single game actually fucking matters. It’s this part of the year that I treasure, when football, basketball, and I guess hockey are all starting up and the baseball season is reaching its climax. There is actually no better time of the year, Santa might bring an Xbox 360 and some candy but Octovember has is the most mind fucked filled month of entertainment in the history of man (women have Gossip Girl too, so I guess Octovember is good for humanity).

I kind of missed the boat on talking about the first round of the playoffs, which is a shame because my least favorite team (the Red Sox) and the team I wanted to win the NL (the Rockies) both got booted DJ Jazzy Jeff styles before anyone had time to think about what happened. And now both Championship series are starting to look one sided, with the Yankees up 3-1 and the Phillies coming back in the 9th to take a 3-1 lead as well. So instead of jumping in late on this one i’m gonna wait until the World Series to start chirping in. Just a little look ahead though, I lived in New Jersey in my formative years, I hated Philly and loved New York. So you can take an educated guess at who my World Series pick will be.

But if the Dodgers can find a way to pull one out of their asses I would be ecstatic. Nothing would be better than Joe Torre vs. his old team in the World Series.

- KC Roberts