[at-l] Evil Empire

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

I am totally amazed that so many people, on this list, are 
into baseball.  I personally think that all profession 
athletes are nothing more than over paid spoiled brats and I 
cannot understand the fascination with professional sports.  
I guess there are those whose lives are so miserable that 
they have that they have to live it vicariously through 
sports.  But this rabid support of sports teams is so high 
school harry, god I wish people would grow up.

Monday was a tough day at work, one of my experiments was a 
complete failure and I had a report that was due at the end 
of the day and I was suffering from writers block.  I went 
down to the cafeteria for lunch and sat with a group of 
friends.  One mentioned that I could not wait to get home 
this evening.  One of my friends said he couldn't wait to get 
home either as there were two baseball games and one football 
game on television that night.  He wanted to know what I was 
going to do when I got home, the implied question being what 
was I going to watch on television that night.  I told him I 
was going home, hug my wife and daughter and call my son.  
Then it was a long and leisurely dinner talking with the two 
ladies and then I might check the next days weather.  Life 
was just way too short to waste it on watching sports on 
television.  Actually life is way too short to watch 
television period.

Grey Owl