Side view mirrors aren’t the only scenario where things seem like they’re far away and then appear before you know it. Seems like the higher the number is when I write my age on a form (I don’t feel like I’m 49) the faster time goes by, which makes sense when you think about it.
It stands to reason since any parcel of time is a smaller percentage “less” of my life on earth compared to that parcel of time when I was younger and it was a greater percentage. For instance, when I was a 14 year old kid spending my summers at Forest Lake (a bungalow colony in Hopewell Junction NY) a night – let alone a summer – used to last for a glorious eternity, which made sense because those were 2 out of the 156 months of my life to date, or one 78th or .0126582 - as opposed to this summer which was 2 months out of the 588 or one 294th or .0034013.
At his 80th birthday surprise party, I asked my father-in-law Marty how quickly a year passed for him. He looked me right in the eye “a year is like a blink of an eye”, he said as he blinked – which went by very quickly.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
This is Sports (I mean) Vote Center! Da da dat. Da da Dat!
Is it me or has the presidential election replaced everything sports related (except college basketball for me) this winter?
The Knicks sucking is old news, the Nets are moving to Brooklyn and are shopping Kidd, and I gave up hockey when all the players started wearing helmets with Plexiglas covering their face and took the vowels out of their names. Nothing against eastern Europeans, I just don’t know any of them as personalities, and I never froze water in my backyard to skate on in Queens.
So what’s a guy to do? Follow all the cable network producers on stations with political content who’ve lifted the format we’ve gotten conditioned to from ESPN. They've applied these lessons learned to deliver compelling pollitical programming that keeps our demographic engaged so they can up their advertising rate cards and trade in those medicated Gold Bond commercials for Lexus ads.
Don’t buy it? We’ve got:
- Former Sports Center anchors covering politics now (Keith Olbermann, who tells me when Obama is El Fuego).
- Former pros - politicians in this case (Joe Scarborough)discussing the significance of candidate intangibles
- Campaigns that are under or over the cap ($4,600 donation per candidate in politics vs. $x million per team in the pros)
- Off the field activities (did they shake hands before the State of the Union address)
The only thing I’m missing is a Jaws* type analyst who’ll tactically break down the candidates issue by issue so I know who the hell to vote for when they both start to race towards the middle during the playoffs... I mean general election. But that’s a whole new season, meanwhile we’ve got a couple of intradivision rivalries to watch, and who knows, maybe a wild card race, though Chris Matthews says that politics "is the only sport where the playoffs come first, and then the season".
* Ron Jaworski
The Knicks sucking is old news, the Nets are moving to Brooklyn and are shopping Kidd, and I gave up hockey when all the players started wearing helmets with Plexiglas covering their face and took the vowels out of their names. Nothing against eastern Europeans, I just don’t know any of them as personalities, and I never froze water in my backyard to skate on in Queens.
So what’s a guy to do? Follow all the cable network producers on stations with political content who’ve lifted the format we’ve gotten conditioned to from ESPN. They've applied these lessons learned to deliver compelling pollitical programming that keeps our demographic engaged so they can up their advertising rate cards and trade in those medicated Gold Bond commercials for Lexus ads.
Don’t buy it? We’ve got:
- Former Sports Center anchors covering politics now (Keith Olbermann, who tells me when Obama is El Fuego).
- Former pros - politicians in this case (Joe Scarborough)discussing the significance of candidate intangibles
- Campaigns that are under or over the cap ($4,600 donation per candidate in politics vs. $x million per team in the pros)
- Off the field activities (did they shake hands before the State of the Union address)
The only thing I’m missing is a Jaws* type analyst who’ll tactically break down the candidates issue by issue so I know who the hell to vote for when they both start to race towards the middle during the playoffs... I mean general election. But that’s a whole new season, meanwhile we’ve got a couple of intradivision rivalries to watch, and who knows, maybe a wild card race, though Chris Matthews says that politics "is the only sport where the playoffs come first, and then the season".
* Ron Jaworski
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