It’s the time of year when readers flock to Juver’s Blog to read an enthusiastic post about how all is right with the world because men are getting paid to cheat at play baseball once more. That post hasn’t arrived yet, but we’ll keep watching for it.
How do I feel about baseball, you ask? Well, since you asked, I loathe baseball. Let me qualify that; it is the MLB, in particular, that I can’t stand. As many of you know, I play some summer whiffle ball and enjoy that thoroughly. I also think fondly of my days as a Little Leaguer. But professional baseball just strikes a nerve with me. It takes away my sports talk radio on my drive home from work because our local Fox Sports Radio affiliate patches in Cubs games. It takes away the mind numbing ESPN afternoon programming that I use to drown out the silence while I play WoW and eat my late lunch. Eventually, it will take the place of such live televised sporting events as college basketball/football, NBA, and NFL. If the MLB backed down, we could just extend those seasons through the summer, and make rational people happy. It takes the place of The Sports Guy’s articles. Fantasy baseball takes the place of conversations with friends. Baseball ruins everything. Baseball is like the guy who speaks at a wedding when the minister askes if anyone has any reason why the two should not be joined in marriage. He (baseball) looks like a fool, and the most important important time (everyday) in the bride and groom’s (my) life is ruined by some uninvited ex-boyfriend (baseball, again) that you hoped had disappeared forever.
I can’t wait until November.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I put up a quick post just for you Harlow.
And btw, I’m thrilled that readers “flock” to my blog!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
I exaggerate.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
This has nothing to do with baseball, but as a shout, it was too long.
For those of you that don’t think teaching is a real job, let me inform you of everything I deal with on a day-to-day basis: 100 13-year olds, math content normally taught in high school, a single standardized test that determines promotion, drama, hormones, fights, attitude, homeless students, child abuse(physical, emotional, and sexual), students who speak little English, students who speak zero English, paperwork and documentation for EVERYthing, behavior disorders, threats, weapons, absent parents, teacher-hating parents, a 10-minute lunch break or no lunch break, up to 5 meetings a week, make-up work, grading papers and tests constantly, taking my work home every night, not being able to save students with destructive and tragic homelives, setting every lesson I do to the Georgia standards and making sure I cover ALL of them, making sure I teach to all modalities and kinds of learners… Oh, and did I mention that if they fail the CRCT, the single standardized test, and have to repeat 7th grade, I am the ONLY one to blame? Yes, it is a breeze.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Geesh. Please tell me that it’s only that way because teaching in Georgia is harder than teaching in Illinois.
Did you see my comment on the last post with the West Wing quote? In case you didn’t, “Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That is my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.”
Sounds like you deserve a six-figure salary.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I think teachers at all levels deserve more money than they make, but that comes with some qualifications, too. Wannstedt (however you spell his name–probably not like the coach…)? Give me a break.
What’re you getting all uppity about, anyway? Who said with any seriousness that teaching wasn’t a real job? Hell, Kyle’s going to school to be a teacher right now, and Juvers made it fairly clear he was talking about substituting, which I doubt anybody would consider a great career choice.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:51 am
I just want to point out that my teaching job is not even close to real work.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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