Today is the second day this year that no one in the universe can watch a live professional American baseball, football, basketball, or hockey game.
Yesterday the American League Major League Baseball all stars defeated the National League all stars 4-2 to earn the right to host the 112th World Series this year. The best of seven contest to determine the champion MLB team begun play in 1903. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series
In current times, the day before, and now the two days after the baseball all star game, non of the above American pro sports are played live, the only three days a year such a thing happens across the globe.
The vast majority of professional sports fans have lost their luster to watch any pro sport anymore because of this years NBA championship series. OK, that last sentence is a bombastic exaggeration on my part.
For the next two days America and the rest of the world can rejoice. Rejoice because the power and big money in pro sports four heavy hitting money makers cannot poison minds today and tomorrow.
Certain games, certain best of seven series between two teams become fixed, the almighty dollar in the end dictates the wining and losing team more often than any human will know for sure.
"I've lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money....Or ratings in [sic] not sure which. I won't be silent. Just saw it live sry," Ayesha Curry, Stephen's wife tweeted after game six of this years NBA Finals.
The Warriors 73 games won in the 2015-2016 regular season was an all time 70 year NBA best regular season ever, until the team lost the championship to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors had not lost three games in a row the entire season, or the post season. Needing just one win to clinch back to back titles, the Cavaliers did the unprecedented and churned out three wins in a row to the home court advantaged Warriors.
One one side of the coin, I saw how the Cavaliers unraveled the Warriors and got into their heads. Curry and Draymond Green, the Warriors best players both got ejected from two different NBA Finals games, Green in game five, Curry in game six. Simple as that, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, especially in game five, a do or die game for Cleveland showed up and dominated the Warriors in Oakland 112-97. Two games later, the Cavaliers were the NBA champions, the first pro championship for a Cleveland team since 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Cleveland
As a Warrior fan, I believe the whole series was set up for James, aka King James. LeBron James like it or not is an iconic basketball player with lots of money, billions if not more flowing into the hands of Las Vegas odds makers and many more extremely wealth business people.
The powers that be could not have 'King' James lose back to back NBA championships, it might have taken away from his jersey selling and countless other product sales. It's all just a game folks, even the reality show of this year's presidential election in which both crappy candidates dish on each other and have no will or desire to help the poor or middle class in any way shape or form. The media messiah shrouds us from the harsh realities of world hunger, wars, health care and dozens of other real issues that should be solved, but never will.
"It's all BS folks," the late great George Carlin said and I agree.
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