Sports

Today's topic is sports and how it influences my life.

People that know me very well, knows that sports plays a very important role in life. I like sports for many reasons: it's competitive, it's fun to play and watch, it's a good hobby, and gets you great exercise (keeps me in shape).

I love sports that have strategy and action. Which leads to my favorite sport.
My favorite sport is basketball, football a close second, third is baseball, and fourth is soccer. The reason basketball is number one in my eyes is because I can play it well and football...not so much.

The teams that I cheer for is between two cities: Chicago and Detroit. Why the split? I've spent my life in Chicago area -> Detroit area-> back to Chicago.
If I had to rank them: Basketball: Pistons, then Bulls; Football: Lions, Bears; Baseball; Tigers and Cubs then the White Sox. The Cubs and Tigers are equal because I saw a lot of Cubs games on tv on those hot summer days.

Lot of good memories with sports. I went my first baseball game in Tiger Stadium in '92. The Tigers played the Red Sox and won 11-7 (Alan Trammell hit a 3-run shot to put the game away). I remember when the Red Wings won back to back titles in '97 and '98 ( and some idiot in school decides to wear an Avalanche jersey school), when the Pistons won the championship in '04 (I had a dance for that), when the '03 Cubs were one game away from the World Series (damn Bartman..jk...it wasn't his fault), and when the Tigers made the World Series in '06 (Mags 3-run shot in the 9th, game 4 of ALCS).

My favorite player in basketball is, obviously, Michael Jordan. In baseball, it's...I don't think I have one. In football, it's Barry Sanders. In soccer, even though he's before my time, Pele.

I predicted when the baseball season started it'll be the Cubs and Tigers, but it looks like it won't happen. I think the Cubs can make it very far but those pesky Brewers won't go away. Tigers got to a horrible start and won't recover.

Lions have the best QB in the division, which isn't saying much btw. Bears QB situation is just horrible but I think their defense will carry them. Minnesota is overrated and GB's Aaron Rodgers has too much pressure on him.
The Pistons finally fired Flip Saunders, I am definitely disappointed in their draft. The Bulls made a mistake in taking Rose, they should have taken Beasley.

That's my take on sports. Next time I might comment on the Olympics.
Please comment. Any feed back is appreciated.