Ten on Tuesday

Ten Favorite Sports to Play or Watch.  I was sure this one was going to be so hard.  I mean, if you were to ask me I would tell you that I don't watch sports that much and aside from fitness and hiking, I am so NOT the athletic type.  But then I got to thinking and well, I came up with a list. 

1. Baseball.  Only the Red Sox  Originally this was an excuse to knit and have Pete still feel like we were doing something together.  Then I started knowing the players' names and stats and caring.  Now Pete and I really are doing something together and I'm still knitting.
2. Football.  Only the Patriots, unless it is play-off time.  Ditto number one.
3. Hockey.  Well, I used to like hockey, back when it was exciting.  Now it is boring.
4. The Boston Marathon.  I mean, it is like watching paint dry, really.  And yet, every Patriot's Day there I sit, riveted by it.
5. I used to like figure skating, more than I do now, although I do still like it.  The new scoring system has wrecked it a little for me.
6. I like running as a participant as well, even if I am slow and lately haven't been out much at all. 
7. Every four years I love watching track and field.  I even watched the trials this past weekend, I love the fast runners and the shot put.  Do you think they go around knocking on doors to find just the right beer drinking, couch potato, sports watching guy with the right amount of rage to throw that thing?
8. Again with the swimming every four years.
9. Gymnastics, especially the men on the rings.  How do they do what they do?!  I totally don't really get the pummel horse though.
10. The sport I most like participating in?  Hee.  Driving Pete a little crazy.  I have so many little ways and come up with new ones all of the time.  I see that as sport.

One hundred eighty-three to go.  I think maybe today is the true half way mark.  Whatever.  Celebrate again, okay?

Comments

[margene]

I celebrate everyday that you post!
The only sport I like is baseball and the winter Olympics can be fun to watch. I love your number 1...go Sox!

[Laurie]

#10 is very funny! Go Sox! Ski racing does the same thing to my brain as the men's gymnastics. I can't figure out why they don't all die instantly. The men on rings? What is WRONG with their shoulders that they can do that? That's not riiight.

[maryse]

i absolutely love to watch the olympics. every and any sport. it doesn't matter. even the dull ones.