Try To Stop Me

I thought that this picture is the essence of Atlanta professional sports. This says it all. If you think about it pretty much every good player in his prime ended up leaving Atlanta eventually and doing better somewhere else. Josh Childress has not even reached his prime yet and he is already gone. I suspect that Josh will end up winning the Greek basketball MVP for the next five years straight (the trophy for this is something like a giant golden gyro or a golden copy of My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and his afro will get at least three feet wider. I know that there are examples of Atlanta athletes that were above average that stayed (most of them for the Braves), but it just seems that the Atlanta sports teams as a whole, in general, do not keep their young talent once they become above average. They won't pay them or buy them hookers or a free pass to the Gold Club.

This is why I am cheating on Atlanta as a sports fan. I am so done with Atlanta. I have not lived there since 1981 and the current owners have treated their fans so badly that there is no way that they can be forgiven. This whole Childress thing just tops it off. I am sure that Josh Smith will end up in Germany somewhere...anywhere but Atlanta. The owners are doing the same thing with the Hawks as they did with the Thrashers. A year after their only play-off run the Thrashers became a joke again. Now the same will take place with the Hawks. The Falcons are owned by a porn king and the Braves are owned by a heartless profiteering corporation. It's so over. I have to move on now. Just try to stop me!!!!

I live in Virginia now. Hear me! Virginia. Spelled V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A. I have lived in Virginia for nineteen bloody years. Before that I lived in Maryland near DC for four and half years. So who are the home teams? The teams in Washington, DC, that's who! So I am cheating on you Atlanta sports. With the home teams even. I did the same thing with women in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. Just try to stop me. I know that I would be rooting for the worst team in baseball, a football team with a non-PC name, a hockey team whose star can't speak English, and basketball team lead by somebody named "Agent Zero." I know it might be the same as dating and scoring with a "7" you meet at the bar on the corner while the "9" waits 400 miles away. But, Atlanta sports, your not a "9", you never were. So I am running away....just try to stop me...and I don't want a stinking T-shirt either.