Giving Up Sports or Music For a Full Year Might Be The Easiest Debate of All Time
The KFC Radio boys posed this question over the weekend and it’s a no brainer in my mind. You have to go a year without music. Right now the poll has a little over 32,000 votes and 40% have voted they would go a year without sports. Some quick math shows that 12,800 people chose that option. There are 12,800 people out there that are brain dead it appears.
Now I understand that music plays such a large part in our everyday lives. Whether you are commuting to work and what jam out on your walk to work. Maybe you’re at work and are trying to power through until lunch so you throw in your headphones and try to black out the guy in the cubicle next to you who is just hoping someone wants to hear about his weekend. You’re at the gym and you’re trying to get in the zone as you pump through your last set of curls. We definitely take for granted how big a role music plays in any kind of movie and how it sets the mood. At the bar your favorite song comes on and you to start to find your rhythm and dance with a girl. Music is huge in our lives, don’t get me wrong, but that does not change the definitive answer to this question.
I cannot live without sports in my life. I can’t do it. Just take this weekend as an example. For a guy like me, I spent my Friday night watching the thrilling Yankees win over the Indians as they walked it off in the bottom of the 9th. While that is going my friends and I are drinking and watching the Pelicans destroy the Warriors as Anthony Davis turned into a cyborg and dominated the game. It was the perfect pregame before heading out for the night.
On Saturday we started off with Barstool at the Ballpark at Yankee Stadium. Following that was the Celtics-Sixers playoff game that went into overtime and was as thrilling as you could have hoped. The Kentucky Derby went off a little before dinner time. Then we got the Raptors-Cavs playoff game that saw LeBron hit that buzzer beater runner layup. Mixed in there was some hockey. I mean what more could you ask for from a Cinco de Mayo Saturday? The first Saturday in May is one of the greatest sports days of the year and I was ready to absorb all of it.
And that was just this past weekend. That’s not factoring in March Madness or Master’s Weekend. That’s not factoring in college football. That’s not factoring in NFL Sundays. Imagine knowing all of those things are going on and you can’t watch them because you chose to LISTEN TO MUSIC. I wouldn’t survive. I wouldn’t make it. I started writing this blog with the Jazz-Rockets Game 4 going on in the background. It’s second nature to me. Sure movies are cool, and can be a proper substitute temporarily, but after a few days I’d be a lost soul. Quite frankly when the Yankees have an off-day, like today, I go home and have no clue what I’m supposed to be doing. I had a friend at college who just loved film and making videos. He had no clue who Mike Trout or Rob Gronkowski were. He looked forward to the commercials during the Super Bowl more than the game itself. I always wondered what that guy talks to his friends about. I would say 75% of my text messages throughout the course of the day have something to do with sports news. To be left out of that is my worst nightmare.
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I live and die with sports. My mood relies heavily upon if my favorite teams won that day. Maybe it’s because I’m a loser. Maybe it’s because I’m young and don’t fall asleep until the west coast basketball or baseball games end. Since I’ve been on this Earth it’s just who I am and I won’t ever change. I can substitute music for podcasts and sports talk radio throughout the day. Sure would it be weird to watch movies without background music? Without a doubt, but I can manage. I couldn’t imagine going through an entire summer without the Yankees or a fall without football. What the fuck are you supposed to do in October on Saturday and Sunday when everyone is watching some sort of football, followed by playoff baseball at night? Oh yeah that’s right you gave that up to listen to the new Post Malone song. Fuck outta here.