What is it with Pro Sports these days?

Here's something I've had a giant beef about for a while and finally got sick to death of making comments on message boards about it. What the HELL is wrong with so called 'professional' sports? Is it just me or does it all suck? (Okay, pro football is the exception). Here's what I mean, take the NBA. Do you know why no one watches it anymore? Because it's no longer about the TEAM, but about one person (Kobe anyone?) taking on 5 guys. If I want that I'd watch gay porn. Everyone talks about how boring the Spurs are. They play as a team. It wouldn't be boring if EVERY OTHER BLOODY TEAM played that way. Not to mention much more fun to watch. I refuse to pay $30-$100 a ticket (whatever it is) to watch the drivel they call Pro Basketball now.

Okay, let's talk NASCAR now. I used to be a huge racing fan. Used to be. Now it's a joke. It's worse than a joke. You know, people ho aren't racing fans always ask the same thing, 'Why would anyone watch a bunch of cars go in a circle?'. And it's true, now. It's nothing more than virtually the same car (can you tell a bloody Toyota from a Dodge from a Chevy?) on virtually the SAME TRACK (Atlanta, Chicago, Califronia, Kansas, Homestead, etc, etc, ad infinitum) so it really is nothing more than a repeat of the previous week. And you wonder why people aren't going to the races as much anymore? It's repetitive, it really is the same car going in the same circle week after week. I'd rather watch paint dry.

Not to mention the fact that the France family is doing everything in it's power to destroy what makes NASCAR great. When you market to the 'casual fan', you inevitably turn off the hardcore ones by watering down the sport. It's a fact of life. The stupid rule changes, the arbitrary way you penalize people for things on and off the track. Take this past week, Tony Stewart gets NO PUNISHMENT for saying an expletive on live TV because in NASCAR's infinite wisdom it wasn't 'a format interview'. WTF is that? Dale Junior gets points docked and a fine for saying 'shit' on TV because it IS a formal interview? WTF? Seriously, can you be any more arbitrary than that? The Busch brothers are going to kill a driver with their shenanigans on the track and they get nothing in punishment. What happens when the wreck those idiots cause is fatal to a driver? How any points do you take away for a fatality? This isn't Mortal Kombat you idiots.

Then there is pro baseball. What do I say about that? Could I be any more bored watching Nomar go through his 5 minutes routine every time he takes a pitch? It'd be more fun to have my nails ripped off. I love playing baseball and basketball, but this is silly.

Each one of these athletes make millions of dollars, and I could care less about most of them. They are either criminals, soon to be criminals or just dicks in general. (Barry Bonds anyone, anyone?) I hate that money ruins everything good about sports. I mean, CNNSI's latest article is on 'The Greatest Quarterback Propesct Ever'. He's 11 years old. His balls haven't even dropped yet and he's the next Montana? It's sad what money has done to sports. It's sad that the fucking idiots running these sports don't get it. And it needs to change. Now.