CSNbbs

I'm constantly amazed at Tri-Cities sports fans.

In most towns when the home team loses a final by 27 points, they demand answers.

In most towns when they have a local Division I team here and another one 100 miles away, they don't hike their skirts for the ones 100 miles away.

In most towns they want to be more cosmopolitan.

Instead, here we have people making excuses for the Bucs. I get people telling us we can't have a AA baseball team even though Jackson, Tennessee does.

Same person who said that putting the ETSU games on Electric would be shooting too high.

ELECTRIC!

So it tells me there are two types of sports fans around here.

There are people who have been around and who know what other places have and would like to see it here. They realize we're very backwards when it comes to sports and we need changes.

And then there is the sort of fan who blames the Southern Conference for kicking ETSU out, there is the sort of fan who makes excuses for the shoddy play, the sort of fan who will hike their skirt for anything orange and believes there was a conspiracy against Peyton Manning to win the Heisman.

You can't blame the Southern Conference for upholding the same position that they held upon Davidson and VMI. The blame is solely on ETSU for dropping football. Although, I've never heard anyone make such a wild perversion.

It dawned on me when we started talking about how a new ETSU baseball stadium could actually bring in a bigger team.

And what did we get? NO! WE CAN'T DO THAT HERE! WHAT ABOUT THE ELIZABETHTON TWINS?

Who cares about the Elizabethton Twins. If the Twins cared about Elizabethton they wouldn't stock the team with "Aw- hell. Just let Ray and Jeff have at it. They live down there!"

If Elizabethton cared about the Twins they'd draw more than 300 people a game.

It's the same logic that ETSU can't follow in the footsteps of MTSU, Marshall, South Florida and whoever else you want to name.

No, that might upset our No. 15 golf program! We can't have that!

We're not improving- we're regressing. They had on an interview with Larry McClure this morning and he admitted he couldn't compete on the Cup circuit anymore.

How much can we promote non-entities like ETSU Golf or George Pitts at King until we realize what is going on here?

Does Bristol have to lose a race? If they did, would there even be an outcry THEN?

It'll be promoted as long as the Tri-Cities Good Ol' Boys Network is in full effect. It's been here forever it seems like. It's tried to go away, but it's like a bad case of crabs on a prostitute....