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Cameron Hodges (that cool guy who plays guitar at most undergrounds) suggested that I post the preceding stats on facebook before free lunch tomorrow to give people some legitimate material. We kids at the Wesley like to talk about sports, ESPECIALLY tech sports. You get the crowd going on Taylors Pott’s and they’ll talk about his backfoot passing, 3 yard outs and unkempt handlebar mustache for hours.
“we shoulda kept leach” they say-
“We shoulda kept crabtree” they say.
And my most personal favorite
“Man, if we were the team like we were two years ago, things would be so different! Remember the UT game?! Oh…you weren’t there? Well let me tell you all about it”
And after a few month’s of putting up with such nonsense- I have to say it. I would say roughly 85% of the people who open their mouths about the following topics
A. Rangers Baseball
B. Tech Football
C. The Dallas Cowboys
D. Scandanavian Competitive Ice Fishing
Probably have either (last list, I promise)
A. No idea what they are talking about
Or
B. Heard a statistic or a decently sound argument from someone else and are simply playing some estranged version of NCAA/NFL/MLB/SCIF telephone.
C. Spent any more than half an hour with Bryce Thompson, Al Martin, or Josh Hurst.
Now I am definitely a C category fan for both A and C- I hear something that sounds like it could hold water and I instantly repeat it in the following conversation about any of said topics.
And if that doesn’t get you sucked in- the debate that follows soon will. “The cowboys are always overrated” and then comes 30 minutes of vague, silly points like
“tony romo sucks because his last name sounds like homo, facebook said so”
and the argument rages on until the ESPNinja’s fly through the Wesley kitchen, grab the lasagna spatulas and swat the silly arguments like flies. As the Weslian sits, dumbfounded by what happened- the conversation switches to something about how “good” Ke$ha’s music is.
(http://amplicate.com/hate/kesha)
Now I am not saying that this is all of us- but it HAS to be the majority or we would all be sports columnists or espn news analysts before we could say troy polamalu 10 times fast.
This sort of brings up an interesting question that I might point towards many of the males that hang around the 2420 (myself included, don’t you worry- the plank in my own eye is sufficiently exposed). Are we truly confident in Christ or is our identity found in how big out sports statistical penis is?
Now maybe I’m jumping from home plate to third base here (which is definitely the first time I’ve ever even reached third base) but I know in my own life it’s probably more true than not. I smile and nod my head when someone compares Hamilton’s ERA to Jack Nicholson’s average drive distance because to be quite honest, I have no idea about either of the two. But I wouldn’t want them to know that.
So before you pretend to know what you are talking about to impress the men around- Remember that the odds are, everyone around you knows just as little as you do. Wear your ignorance proudly. Just start talking about how much you love the foreign policy decisions that papa new guinea has been making lately- see if anyone starts to chime in!
So that being said
Where were you the night that the Texas Rangers made history?
