Sunday, March 20, 2011

Ruin a good thing!!!

Okay, time for a sports rant. Why did the NCAA ruin the best sports tournament in the world. Of course I am talking about March Madness.
Remember when it was just the 64 teams. That made every league championship exciting because to win it meant that you got to go to the 'Big Dance." Then once the tournament started you get the Cinderella stories of a 15th seed upsetting a 2 seed. Man it is great stuff.
It is still good but then they added that stupid play-in game. Now if you win your conference they may ship you off to play the winner of another scrub league before going to the "Big Dance." And if that is not bad enough now there are four play-in games. WHY. The original 64 team set-up was great. Allowed everyone to have a shot, but the better teams got easier games early. Sets up the possibility of the exciting upset. What a way to choose a national champion.
I guess we can never be satisfied when something is good. Maybe it is a good thing that we are trying to make things better. But sometimes we have to know when things can not be made better. They probably think that they can make a little more money adding those four extra games. But in my mind they just cheapened the tournament a little. It is still great but not as great as it once was.
You know this started as a sports rant, but it clearly has implications in other parts of life. How many people ruin a good relationship thinking that there is someone better waiting for them? Or move to a new job before realizing how good they had it at the old one? Or move to a new city and miss all their old friends? Change is good and sometimes necessary. But sometimes the best change is no change.

Sincerely,

Trouble-Maker

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