Choosing What Sports To Watch In April Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

October is by far the best month in sports. Anytime there is football being played, I’m happy. But it’s also the only month of the year that all four major sports are being played.

But April doesn’t suck either. We have the the NBA Playoffs, the NHL Playoffs, and baseball season in full swing. If last week’s Red Sox-Yankees melee was any indication, good rivalry baseball can happen in April too. Not to mention, The Masters and the Final Four kick start the month.

So how do you choose what to watch every night?

It all comes down to A) if your team is playing that night, B) what sports you care about more and C) which TVs you happen to be around.

PSA: I don’t have a badass set up in my NYC apartment where I can watch a bunch of games at a time. Also, I was somehow still a little hungover from Sunday Funday so the idea of being in a sports bar sounded absolutely awful. So off to the gym I went.

None of my hometown teams are good enough to be in the playoffs currently and watching the fifth team in the AL West instead of postseason basketball or hockey just wasn’t that intriguing. So I commandeered a TV to watch the Heat-76ers. The Bruins were on next to me and then the Nationals-Mets game on the other side.

I didn’t choose the latter, the latter chose me.

I can’t make this up. A group of dudes wearing Mets shirts were standing in front of that small TV… shadow boxing each other after every single half-inning. Shadow Boxing. Sound effects and all. This was serious shit, people. Then they’d stop and huddle around the TV to watch the game.

I’m all in on boxing (shout out, Rumble. But no free ads), but for some reason a bunch of bros shadow boxing each other only in between innings as a workout was incredibly funny to me. My only regret is not taking a video, but it would have been too obvious.

It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen bros do and I went to an SEC school. People Watching Hall of Fame.

Anyway, the Mets bullpen absolutely imploded in the 8th inning. It was a meltdown you can’t write. Five pitchers. Six runs. Blowing a five-run lead in epic fashion.

The bros were not happy and they packed up their shit shortly after Jeurys Familia walked in the run that put Washington up 7-6. They were pissed. Peak misery. Silver lining, Mets fans… at least most people weren’t watching live last night????

There was also a vintage Dwayne Wade performance that was apparently provoked by Kevin Hart. A PK Subban blindside punch. And further proof the Spurs have no shot at beating the Warriors… etc, etc. Sports, folks. Sports.

This is why April is a semi-low key great sports month. I wouldn’t have gotten to witness Mets misery in full form had I not been hanging out by some boxing bros. Every single night is packed.  You can’t get enough.

And the real winner of the night was Gabrille Union. Look, I don’t give a shit what they’re into behind closed doors. Telling your man (for the entire world to see) to hurry home so you reward him by being #GrownASF together is an all-time power move.

#Goals.