I have to admit I’m starting to get the Summertime Sports Blues.

We are currently in the midst of the worst part of the year for sports on TV.

Now this is not an annual thing, because every other year we get either the Olympics or the World Cup to help pass the time from the NBA Draft, to the start of College Football, but in the odd-numbered years, we get the vortex of suck.

Last summer we had Michael “Bong” Phelps and Team USA Basketball to watch and cheer for in the Olympics. Three summers ago we had the 2006 World Cup and the sweet head butt from Zinedane Zidane in the title game.






But just like in the summer of 2007, the summer of 2009 is going to drag from now until about the end of August. That’s 6 to 7 weeks of nothing but baseball (I refuse to count the Tour de France, no one watches that), and I’m sorry it is not 1956 anymore, and people do not care about baseball like they once did.

Sure baseball is still a very popular sport, but in today’s fast-paced world, the majority of people find it hard to carve out three hours of their night to watch a baseball game. There are just too many other options out there, from other things to watch on TV, to the internet, to video games, and good ole’ fashioned outdoor activities.

There is NBA free agent chatter, but that is not something you can watch on TV, and once the big names sign, it doesn’t really matter after that.

Other than one night of UFC fights this past weekend, there has not been one must see sporting event on TV since the NBA finals.

USA-Brazil soccer was decent, and Federer vs. Roddick was good, but those are the exception to the rule, and because they are played overseas, they do not come on at a time when the majority of US sporting fans are watching TV.

So what are we to do with ourselves?

Well I for one will be picking up NCAA Football 2010 by the end of this week, and once I do, I will go into my yearly hibernation of playing the Dynasty Mode with the Florida Gators. (Dynasty mode gives you the opportunity to play a team year after year)

Around the fictitious year of 2020 I will probably announce my retirement and move on into the world of Madden 2010 Franchise mode, (which is the same as Dynasty for college football) and start a franchise with the Bucs.

My skin should look extremely white and pasty and I will probably gain at least 10 pounds in that time from eating Doritos and Charleston Chews. Basically I will look like all the South Park kids did in the world of warcraft episode.




This will all be worth it when video Tim Tebow wins his second Heisman trophy and third National Championship in my Dynasty, and then after uploading him from NCAA into Madden, Tebow will take the Bucs back to the Super Bowl.


It will be glorious.







Now I just have to figure out how to carve out all this videogame time and keep my girlfriend from smashing my Xbox into a thousand pieces.