The Sad State of Washington
We're pathetic... our government is inept. We would rather talk about fixing a collapsing Highway for decades than get off our asses and actually do it. We elect people for stupid reasons and then fucking pay for it. Usually we can overlook these things 'cause our sports teams were generally decent. Or even if one sports team was having a tough time another would pick up our spirits. Not anymore.
Our longest running major professional sports franchise, the only one with a World Championship, was stolen from us. The Seattle Supersonics are gone. We were betrayed, backstabbed, by one of our own over money. We had a lease and the city should have held them to their contract, but they (the city) chose money over heart. I would rather have the Supersonics than the collapsing highway. You can't buy 41 years of history. You can't buy my memories. The loss of the Sonics has been crushing... to think that my nieces and nephews will grow up and not feel the joy. It makes me sick.
But at least we have the Seahawks and Mariners, right? Nope. A Superbowl championship for Seattle was given to Jerome Bettis and the Stealers (no i didn't spell it wrong) by the NFL. Three years ago, get over it. No, i won't... because it is a pattern. It was our best chance. That chance is gone... we'll be lucky if we can get to 500 over the next few years.
The Huskies are probably the worst i've ever seen them, the Cougars... at least they are rebuilding. The Dawgs are stuck with a head coach who has never shown that he can win. He's a loser. The Huskies will be losers until they get rid of him. We may see an Apple Cup with winless teams. I don't count Portland State for the Cougs, that's like a HS Varsity 4A team beating a JV 1A team.
The baseball gods gave us our worst year in Mariners history. We were expected to vie for the playoffs yet lost 101 times. And get this, the sad Tampa Bay Rays had never won more than 70 games and are now in the World Series. Are you fucking kidding me? I guess all they needed was a name change. So i guess we should change the Mariners to the Marines. Will that help? I'll do anything to watch my team pile on each other like little kids. We fucking deserve it man, too many years of futility. We won 116 games and Sept 11th happened and the baseball gods put NY in again.
Mariners, Rangers, Expos/Nationals are now the only teams to not make the WS. The Rangers moved from Washington and the Expos from Montreal. The last four expansion teams: Rockies, Marlins, Diamondbacks, and now the Rays have all been there. In fact the Marlins and Diamondbacks have both been there and WON. The Diamondbacks made it in their FOURTH year. The Marlins have won twice.
When times are bad, people turn to sports. When sports are bad... what are we supposed to turn to? How are we going to get ourselves out of this mess? How do you get yourself out of political crap? Change in leadership. Change in culture. We have a culture of losing. We accept that we suck. Well I can't accept it anymore. It is our time. We deserve it... too much has gone wrong this year. I could deal better with the Sonics loss if i had another team to turn to, but its a sad State of Washington all around.
Our longest running major professional sports franchise, the only one with a World Championship, was stolen from us. The Seattle Supersonics are gone. We were betrayed, backstabbed, by one of our own over money. We had a lease and the city should have held them to their contract, but they (the city) chose money over heart. I would rather have the Supersonics than the collapsing highway. You can't buy 41 years of history. You can't buy my memories. The loss of the Sonics has been crushing... to think that my nieces and nephews will grow up and not feel the joy. It makes me sick.
But at least we have the Seahawks and Mariners, right? Nope. A Superbowl championship for Seattle was given to Jerome Bettis and the Stealers (no i didn't spell it wrong) by the NFL. Three years ago, get over it. No, i won't... because it is a pattern. It was our best chance. That chance is gone... we'll be lucky if we can get to 500 over the next few years.
The Huskies are probably the worst i've ever seen them, the Cougars... at least they are rebuilding. The Dawgs are stuck with a head coach who has never shown that he can win. He's a loser. The Huskies will be losers until they get rid of him. We may see an Apple Cup with winless teams. I don't count Portland State for the Cougs, that's like a HS Varsity 4A team beating a JV 1A team.
The baseball gods gave us our worst year in Mariners history. We were expected to vie for the playoffs yet lost 101 times. And get this, the sad Tampa Bay Rays had never won more than 70 games and are now in the World Series. Are you fucking kidding me? I guess all they needed was a name change. So i guess we should change the Mariners to the Marines. Will that help? I'll do anything to watch my team pile on each other like little kids. We fucking deserve it man, too many years of futility. We won 116 games and Sept 11th happened and the baseball gods put NY in again.
Mariners, Rangers, Expos/Nationals are now the only teams to not make the WS. The Rangers moved from Washington and the Expos from Montreal. The last four expansion teams: Rockies, Marlins, Diamondbacks, and now the Rays have all been there. In fact the Marlins and Diamondbacks have both been there and WON. The Diamondbacks made it in their FOURTH year. The Marlins have won twice.
When times are bad, people turn to sports. When sports are bad... what are we supposed to turn to? How are we going to get ourselves out of this mess? How do you get yourself out of political crap? Change in leadership. Change in culture. We have a culture of losing. We accept that we suck. Well I can't accept it anymore. It is our time. We deserve it... too much has gone wrong this year. I could deal better with the Sonics loss if i had another team to turn to, but its a sad State of Washington all around.
posted by The Game Log at 6:00 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, and when the economy sucks, what else is there besides sports? It's tough when all your teams lick!!
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