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Sports Overload and Other Fun Ways to For Bad Teams to Make the Playoffs
Maybe, just maybe, there are too many pro sports.
Now, those of you that know the staff here at News-Herald DotComedy might be picking yourself up off the ground after falling out of your chair having read that statement, but it’s true.
We are huge sports fans, but what is going on now seems to be an over-saturation of the market.
Case in point, the WNBA.
Now before the female section of our readers storm the DotComedy offices, let us explain that this is not a gender issue or a chauvinistic decision to eliminate the WNBA.
This is a sports common sense scenario.
Folks, do you realize that there are six teams in each of two conferences in the WNBA and that FOUR teams from each conference make the playoffs? Which means, two teams that don’t have a .500 record will play for the right to advance to the conference finals!
It doesn’t matter if it is men, women, water buffaloes, Vulcans, droids or Walt Disney characters playing, if eight of 12 teams make the postseason it is time to ring Dr. Kevorkian and have him pull the cord on the sport.
What are we saying here to the other four teams? Thanks for playing, and try not to hurt yourself getting dressed because it is obvious your hand-eye coordination isn’t that great if you couldn’t finish in the top eight?
This playoff system in the WNBA is only missing the mayor coming court-side to shake hands and hand out participation trophies. “Ooh boy, Susie, look what I got? A trip to the WNBA playoffs! Now let’s go to Dairy Queen for a milkshake and a shoe endorsement deal.”
Put it this way, in the West, Tulsa finished 6-28 and was only seven games out of a playoff spot.
Now that is the kind of league the Indians need to find a way to get into!
Folks, it is not just the WNBA. There are too many soccer leagues, too many ESPN channels, too many levels of the World Series of Poker, too many golf tours, etc.
Over-saturation of the pro sports landscape - It’s not healthy.
And you know what happens when the health of things deteriorate?
Paging Dr. Kevorkian. Dr. Jack Kervorkian ….
Got a problem with that? Take it up with the Vulcans.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
Now, those of you that know the staff here at News-Herald DotComedy might be picking yourself up off the ground after falling out of your chair having read that statement, but it’s true.
We are huge sports fans, but what is going on now seems to be an over-saturation of the market.
Case in point, the WNBA.
Now before the female section of our readers storm the DotComedy offices, let us explain that this is not a gender issue or a chauvinistic decision to eliminate the WNBA.
This is a sports common sense scenario.
Folks, do you realize that there are six teams in each of two conferences in the WNBA and that FOUR teams from each conference make the playoffs? Which means, two teams that don’t have a .500 record will play for the right to advance to the conference finals!
It doesn’t matter if it is men, women, water buffaloes, Vulcans, droids or Walt Disney characters playing, if eight of 12 teams make the postseason it is time to ring Dr. Kevorkian and have him pull the cord on the sport.
What are we saying here to the other four teams? Thanks for playing, and try not to hurt yourself getting dressed because it is obvious your hand-eye coordination isn’t that great if you couldn’t finish in the top eight?
This playoff system in the WNBA is only missing the mayor coming court-side to shake hands and hand out participation trophies. “Ooh boy, Susie, look what I got? A trip to the WNBA playoffs! Now let’s go to Dairy Queen for a milkshake and a shoe endorsement deal.”
Put it this way, in the West, Tulsa finished 6-28 and was only seven games out of a playoff spot.
Now that is the kind of league the Indians need to find a way to get into!
Folks, it is not just the WNBA. There are too many soccer leagues, too many ESPN channels, too many levels of the World Series of Poker, too many golf tours, etc.
Over-saturation of the pro sports landscape - It’s not healthy.
And you know what happens when the health of things deteriorate?
Paging Dr. Kevorkian. Dr. Jack Kervorkian ….
Got a problem with that? Take it up with the Vulcans.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
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