The Absolutely Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Unneeded Unwanted PAC 12 sports blog
This blog really
ought to start out with apologies to all who really write sports stuff, know
what they are writing about or work for a living. On the other hand, I’d spend
most of my life apologizing if I dealt them out everywhere they are due.
Instead, let’s get right to it.
I’ve got sort of a
legitimate place in the world of Pac12 sports. I’ve been around since it was
the Pac8, suffered through the years they admitted Arizona and Arizona State
(who early in their membership tried to jettison some of the northwest
schools), and stick around now that it has metamorphosed into a north and south
monster. I umpired baseball in the Pac10, and have, or at least had (haven’t checked
in a while) my picture in the University of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.
Needless to say,
you might find some of what I’ll write here a bit biased toward Oregon, a
little biased against Oregon State, and maybe downright hateful toward the
University of Washington. Neither do I
have much use for Trojans. That’s not to say I wouldn’t sit down with a beer to
talk sports with Beavers and Huskies. I just wouldn’t buy the beer. I wouldn’t
sit down with a Trojan unless I was already drunk.
I’ll also unload on
the Big10ish and the SEC whenever opportunity knocks. If you are a Pac12 fan,
you’ll grow to love me. Otherwise, probably not. Part of my agenda is to
balance the world against the hated EAST COAST BIAS, which doesn’t do much
better at understanding the Pac12 than they due at pronouncing ‘Oregon’.
With little more
knowledge of what I am writing about than I have about what the next paragraph
is going to be about, I promise you nothing but the straight stuff, delivered with
a straight face, straight from the rear side of my Levi’s. I have a humor blog
called Untie Me Now here on Blogspot,
so if you want the humorous stuff, you’ll have to trot over there. This blog is
for the serious business of sports.
I’m happily stuck
up here in Maine now, so you won’t find any interviews, which usually don’t amount
to much anyway. You can probably provide the same answers to the canned
questions that the players and coaches do. The others you can probably handle
better, or at least more honestly. Occasionally the voices might provide
something they whipped up in their chem lab, when they aren’t too busy burning
popcorn. They know both endeavors annoy me. Best not to quote the quotes when
they sneak into the posts.
I don’t think the
Pac12 will mind my mentioning their name from time to time as I long as don’t
claim to represent them. Otherwise you’ll find me among the dirt they dig up
over on ESPN being held up as an example of what not to do. I also don’t have
anything to do with them or any other group of talking heads. We wouldn’t have
each other.
Another warning;
get used to typos sneaking in as I seldom catch them all. If anything you read
doesn’t make sense, it’s probably a typo. Nothing I write should not make sense if you
wrap your head around it the right way, or believe everything you read. If that
all works for you, you might want to become a follower of this blog so you get
warning when I post something. I really need followers other than the
detectives and psychiatrists who are following me now.
Don’t follow me
everywhere though, like right now I am going out to do the heavy research it
takes to review all of the conference football teams. I don’t want too many
people crowding me and freeloading the beer and pretzels. (Especially the
Beavers and Huskies)
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