Im a tampa homer

Today is the age of digital technology. Over are the days of slow, heavy, and overbearing gadgets that once cluttered our lives. Just like well trained athletes who dedicate there lives for a shot at immortality and glory, technology strives to grow in an endless competition to be smarter, stronger and faster. As technology progresses so does the art of communication. Today in this very modern era, for now, it seems so asinine that in order to convey ideas and thoughts in the “good old days” people would have to chisel pictures out of stone, paint on cave walls, send smoke signals, and even use a feather pen and a bowl of ink to write documents as best as possible with out making an error, because doing so would bring upon the agony of balling up your time and hard work only to realize that you could never make it in the NBA when your Magic Johnson hook shot misses the waste basket by five feet. Now ideas and opinions can be shared as fast as it takes someone to type it out and hit enter, via the blog. (what ever happened to the days when journals and diaries were supposed to be locked up and hidden away from outside eyes underneath a mattress).

Although I have been against the idea of having a personal web log, blogs are hitting the mainstream and are becoming as trendy as Starbucks. When I hear the word blog, I can’t help but think about people trying to promote themselves, bitch about the things that pissed them of on a particular day, and the ability to talk trash at speeds previously unheard of. Name anything right now, there’s probably a blog about it. Naturally I will embark on my blogging quest in the area that I might possibly know best about ( other than frying chicken wings), sports. If there is anything that I can build up a hype for, share my discontent for, and do a lot of arguing about, it’s the wide world sports.

Is there any real use to sports blogging? I mean, one person breaks a important news story and then every single sports news medium takes it and runs with it. ESPN, sports radio, and even online news sources talk about the same thing, whatever the new hot developing story. The one difference is the way to respond to current events. ESPN allows for basically no way to respond to your teams decision to fire your head coach and GM. If your favorite receiver shoots his leg off right before the playoffs, there is a two minute phone call you could make to the radio station, after waiting on hold for an hour. When the Fighting Irish return to prominence and bring home the national championship, I could just watch it on TV, or maybe have an email read over the AM airwaves, or I could unload a small novel of opinions and insight on why my team is better than yours.

I will be entering a few online communities to share my thought on whats going on in the sports world. Pewter Report is a good site right now with the recent firing of John Gruden and Bruce Allan. Some people thing it was the wrong move, while others are glad to see potential change. There are rumors that the best player on the Lightning might be traded to some team in Canada, which would be the most idiotic decision ever. I can dedicate my entire blog project on the Lightning and how much they just crap all over themselves. Spring training is around the corner and the AL champs, Tampa Bay Rays, are only getting better. Sure the Yankees spent $400 million over the off-season (in this economy?), and the Red Sox are always scary as hell, but the Rays should do a repeat of last season and take over the AL east.

The great thing about sports is that everyday is different, there will always be an outlet and a need for hot spots opinions. Its time to expand from bar room arguments on who is the real No. 1 in the BCS, to the web where you can actually convey a smart, concise, articulate opinion over an are to where anybody can see it. In the words of Jim Rome, “Have a take, don’t suck”