Why I Love Sports

I know this has nothing to do with Ohio State, but I think any sports fan can relate.

If you are reading this blog then you are probably a sports fan, and most likely a big sports fan. Believe it or not there are people out there who don’t care much about sports and think that they are just a big waste of time and money. And you know what, part of that might be true. The amount of time and money that a lot of fans spend on sports is ridiculous, but there is a reason that we do it.

We were reminded of that reason yesterday as a rainy Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis, Minnesota turned into a Tuesday night that no one will soon forget. The Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers played an American League Central tiebreaker game for 4 hours and 47 minutes. 12 innings of nothing but baseball. No talk of steroids, labor strikes, or blood alcohol levels, just baseball.

As the game went on you could get the feeling that this was going to be something special, this was a game that you be talking about for years to come. It did not matter if you had work or homework to do, bills to pay or chores to get done. Those things could wait because you were watching baseball and you couldn’t turn away. The game seemed like it hung on every pitch and could end at any moment yet it also seemed like it could go on forever. And you didn’t care if it went on forever because you were happy, just to sit there and watch baseball.
 For those 12 innings none of the problems or stresses of the world seemed to matter. The game may have been played in Minnesota, but for 4 hours and 47 minutes it sure seemed like it was taking you back and making you think that it was being played on a corn field in Iowa. Your problems would still be there in the morning, and sports can’t fix that, but what they can do is turn one ordinary Tuesday evening in October into something that you will remember for the rest of your life.