undraftedstlouis
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- Sep 11, 2004
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I'd love to see how many people aren't following a pro sports team for reasons like this. I'll be vastly impressed if anyone can find 5.
I certainly hope you don't follow MLB (162 games) or the NBA (82 games); I wonder how many games in a season suddenly becomes a "significant commitment" - 50? 40? 35? 30? 16?
Not that I think you're making your reasons up for not following the sport/team, but I have never heard another person cite those reasons for not following a sport/team. Never. If those are really your reasons, ... do you think you could quit staring at the couple fallen trees and still enjoy the rest of the forest?
In MLB and NBA the playoffs are about all I'll ever watch.
The leagues I watch the most are soccer - MLS, English Premier League, and Champions League (30, 38, and roughly 13 games respectively for each, with 13 teams, 20 teams, and for the knockout part 16 teams respectively).
In North America, if your team isn't viable, it usually will eventually be folded/moved (or not be competitive - Montreal Expos, San Jose Earthquakes, Tampa Bay Mutiny for the former, Tampa Bay Devil Rays for the latter).
I like hockey. I like the Lightning. I'm actually here looking for a reason to watch 80+ Lightning games a year. I check the news and see the team might be for sale (with the Devil Rays I know how much ownership matters). I see recent reports the team may go under the cap next year. Over the last few years I haven't gone out of my way to watch hockey. As a result I've heard next to nothing about who the star players are anymore (Crosby and some players in Nashville, Atlanta?). I get criticism for my reasons. But I'm not get much offered on why I SHOULD care? What is the NHL doing to win over the US fans? And if they don't care, why are they mosting most of the teams here???