Can I Keep It Short?

Mostly, being as it's August, this blog will be about the Washington Nationals.  Somewhere after the first exhibition game, I may start blowing up on Albert Haynesworth but for the most part I won't have any trenchant thoughts about the Redskins until, probably, October. 

I've started at least two of these blogs and both got bogged down in trying to write something profound.  I can't be profound more than once or twice a week.  If that.  So the trick will be to keep it short, pithy (or maybe flammable), which will lead to vast overstatements, etc., etc., that might actually be memorable.

Today's beef is about . . . blogs.  Specifically, about people who post comments in response to sports blogs. (I've done it, once or twice; I confess.)   Everybody's an expert.  Nobody ever read George Will's Men at Work.  Most are only vaguely familiar with the QWERTY keyboard (giving the phrase, "All thumbs," new meaning -- turning the meaning upside down, in fact).  Few are interested in learning anything; they want to teach everybody else a thing or two.  That's their highest motivation.  A fair number simply want to release their cranial pressure valves.  When I was younger, people who vented in such ways in public were hauled off for overnight psychiatric evaluation. 

Today, someone can't understand why Adam Kennedy is still in the major leagues.  He's more polite than some of the others.  Again, when I was younger, I don't recall Tigers fans complaining loudly about Lou Berberet.  The most uncivil fans were -- I heard -- the Brooklyn Dodgers' fans but "Moider da bums!" was about their opponents, not their own team. 

So, I'm going to write my own blog.  Be insightful, be incendiary.  Be civil, incite revolution.

T.T.S.