For the record...

If we follow Bud Selig's lead to expunge the records of players who took PEDs, then we should look into eliminating some other things that are hurting sports.


-Eliminate all things within each sport that appease fans who were never professional athletes and don't understand that to them, sports is just entertainment with a score.


Take away co-MVPs


Take away crowd noise (home teams shouldn't be able to cheat the game by having their fans scream)


Take away fan polls and blogs


Take away opinion because we have none, we're not even smart enough to save an economy, but we know everything there is to know about play selection and managing time-outs.


Make it corporate. Make it known that the non-technical aspect of sports, the one that ESPN tries to fill up with splenda so we won't recognize it, is unrealistic. Since it already is unrealistic without that being explained to us, tell us it is.



Tell us that Paul Pierce fakes injuries and flops for attention.


Tell us that ESPN and other organizations put shows like NFL Matchup, shows for intelligent fans, at 7am on a sunday, but Outside the Lines, a show of backstories and sensationality, at 10:30am when both coasts can watch.


Tell us why. Explain to us that the element of sports we care about isn't real. Explain why I live in a huge city, with multiple newspapers, but people still look to ESPN for info on their local teams, even though so many people there carry a Boston bias. So New Yorkers walk around with a Red Sox fans opinion of the Yankees (e.g. Peter Gammons) or a Celitcs fan's opinion of the Knicks, or a Patriots fan's opinion of the Giants.


Tell them.


Tell them they're being herded, fed garbage, and left to think with that sketchy knowledge.



Change the name of Sports Illustrated to "Sports Fabricated"


Erase the records, then tell us that the laser-light shows and Dwight Howard's limited skill set are what the people want.


Tell them, see if they've left anyone with enough intelligence to understand it.