A day of mind numbing sports.

My one and only goal that I set yesterday was to enjoy my day off. Not just enjoy, but relax and do absolutely nothing. Mission complete. And what helped me get through the day? Sports. Watching sports for practically the entire day eats away the hours but leaves one feeling numb.

My first objective was getting up early. There are two things very strange about that. One....my day off. Who wants to get up early on their day off? and two...I was up until one in the morning sharing some drinks with some friends. But, I needed to get up before eight thirty in order to watch the US soccer team play. It was an intense game and they were robbed, once again, of a goal by a bogus call. Such is life, there was plenty of time left in the game after the off sides call. Then the minutes ticked away and still no score until additional play. It was the most excited I ever really get about a sport I don't follow all that much.

By the time the soccer game was over, there were stories all around about this insanely long tennis match that was happening at Wimbledon. This match, being played by two almost anonymous men has lasted three days (or will once they resume play tomorrow). They are tied at fifty nine in the fifth set. Normally, the sets go to seven or eight depending on how well the opponents are, but fifty nine a piece! That is crazy. It is the longest match in the modern era, the American that is playing in it set a new record for most aces in one match, and it has been suspended twice because of darkness. The play time is a little over ten hours. TEN HOURS!

The final sport was the Tigers v. Mets. The Tigers lost. Moving on.......

I feel as though I should get some shares in ESPN stock. All three sporting events I watched today were on either ESPN or ESPN2. In between the tennis match and the baseball game, I squeezed in the Germany/Ghana game (or bits and pieces of it) and lunch and dinner.

My brain is mush, I work in the morning, but before I go to bed, I have decided to solidify my mind for a little bit and pick up a book. You know, so my intellectual self doesn't die.