Why Blog? Why Kansas City Sports?

Unfortunately, I consider myself an observer. Generally, that is a good thing. If you are quick to read the virtues in people you meet, if you can see what something is going to become when its creation is in infancy, or even if you're just observANT enough to see a cop sitting on the side of the road consistently when you're doing five miles per hour over the speed limit. I feel I am pretty quick on all of those as well, but I need something to vent my nonproductive observations each day.

So, I decided to blog about something outside of my life rather than to journal about what's in it. Journaling is for people who write about their life from a state of weakness, they do not have either the common sense or the inner strength to just sort through problems rationally, so they feel like they have to write down their thoughts over and over again and eventually they will make sense. That's not me. I have to write about observations about something of interest to me. Plus, why would I write a bunch of personal stuff about myself on a blog for the world to read. Some will agree with me and mirror my struggles, but I already know those people exist. If you want to talk over coffee sometime, reply to a post and give me an invite.

I think my main passion is over-analyzing things that really mean nothing directly to me. However, those are the things that we all blog, write, and read about, aren't they? My two interests seem to be politics and Kansas City Sports. If I wrote about politics it would not take long before I would have to shoot myself; you can only spend so many days talking about how much you hate the honest socialists in the Democratic Party and the lying socialists in the Republican Party. It is so easy to read our Constitution, make an honest OBSERVATION about reasons for founding our country the way the forefathers did and why that system would work, and see how we have been violating that intent for the past 100 years. There's little chance of turning that around, and plus it hits my pocketbook much more and thus the reasons for the potential future suicide.

But sports, the great American passion that does not impact us directly but we continuously focus on it daily as though our lives depend on it. I fall into this trap occasionally as well, however I can at least make the observation that my life does not depend on our sports teams. I enjoy them, generally I do nothing else on a Sunday afternoon than watch the Chiefs play. But I still understand that my life does not begin at kickoff and end in the grave at the closing whistle (only to be reincarnated at the following week's kickoff).

Lately, our sports have begun to suck. For a while, a VERY LONG TIME AGO, we had the Royals. Then the started to suck, and have continued down that path for nearly the past two decades. The Chiefs gained some direction, and became a model franchise for a few years. However, we have nearly lost an entire generation of sports fans waiting on winning playoff football to return to Kansas City. Today they both suck. This town, like every other town, already has plenty of observers. However, eventually someone is going to read into this, and realize that a fan really understands the sport, the problems with the team, and deserves to not be treated like an infant child when they spend thousands of dollars on season tickets.

If I had a journalism background, I suppose I could be a syndicated sports writer. But I don't, and today anyone can write without syndication. So that's what I plan to do, I'm going to write for you all for free and see if my observations can take the full time jobs of a few people that seem to know nothing about sports and get paid very well to do something they are not good at. I am going to release my observations daily on whomever takes the time to read them.

I apologize that today's post sucked, especially after the Chiefs made me want to puke today. I'll try to interject some humor on the posts, and hopefully I will keep all of you interested. Tomorrow will be a better day for this blog, just like I hope tomorrow morning feels better than tonight feels to a Chiefs fan.

Come back tomorrow for some real thoughts, but you should all know that I am going to write for you as the observer that you all are and I hope more of you are devoting your time to a healthy release of your frustrations (like this) and not doing unhealthy things like drinking your Chiefs frustration away or worse.

Tomorrow will be a new day. On this blog, tomorrow will actually be a sports day. Sorry if you wasted your time today, but this is why I write.