I heart sports

A lot of people think that I have an addiction to sports. Do I? I really can't say foresure, but I will let you guys decide for me. This day actually did happen about 2 months ago, maybe less.

6:10 am - My TV is set to be my alarm clock so when it turns on, it is automatically on ESPN2 and I get to watch the Mike and Mike Show. I'll usually watch this for a few minutes before getting up. As I'm shaving, brushing my teeth, getting dressed, etc I'll usually watch them, and listen to their funny stories. Mike Golic used to annoy me, but now he is pretty entertaining. Everyone thought his brother Bob would be the real star, after all he was in Saved by the Bell: The College Years, but I digress.

6:50 am - Got in my car to go to work. Turned on 710 AM Radio. That's KSPN the ESPN radio affiliate for Southern California. Listened to the Colin Cowherd Show. He is somewhat entertaining at times, but usually says something stupid that I turn him off. Today was a rare day that I actually agreed with what he said so I listened straight until I got to work.

8:00 am - First thing I do when I get to work, check my fantasy teams from the day before. (At the time I am writing this blog, I want you to know that I am currently in 4 fantasy baseball leagues, 5 fantasy football leagues, 1 fantasy pick 'em NFL league, 1 fantasy golf league and 1 fantasy NASCAR league. That's right, you read correctly, golf and NASCAR...don't judge me). I make the necessary changes for each league, depending on the match up and such, put in the correct starting pitchers and then I’m good to go.

8:20 am - After finishing my fantasy teams, I look to read about the Dodgers, since its baseball season. First I usually check Dodgerblues. This is a great site with a good sense of humor. I also check out the Dodgerdugout. This site is okay, somewhat good during the prime trading and free agent seasons. After reading these two fan sites I head over to the regular Dodgers website.

8:40 am - After reading up on the Dodgers, I decide its time to read the general news. Hmm let me rephrase, my general news, which basically means Sports Illustrated Online and ESPN. These two sites usually have some feature story that I'll want to read, or some picture gallery that has some cool photos. I usually take a good amount of time to read these sites, you know to make sure I know what’s going on?

9:05 am - This day happened to be a really good day, cause my favorite write on espn.com put up one of his entertaining mailbags. For those of you who haven't heard of him before, Bill Simmons is a writing genius. He is able to put together sports, pop culture, movies, TV shows and Las Vegas in virtually everything he writes. I highly recommend that all of you take a few minutes to read him here.

9:30 am - At this point I decide I should probably do some real work, respond to phone calls, check email, work, etc. Never fear though, I have a handy dandy radio on the desk in back of me. Flip it on to hear the last 30 minutes of the Cowherd Show. As I said before, he is okay in short doses, but I usually need a break, 30 minutes is a decent amount of time to listen to him sum up his topics of the day.

10:00 am - This is where my day really kicks into full gear. Every weekday at 10:00 am I get to listen to my favorite sportscaster/sports talk radio host, the one, the only, Dan Patrick. Dan is easily the smartest, funniest, thoughtful and well spoken member of the ESPN TV and Radio family. I will listen to him for all 3 hours that he is on, as he has the best topics, best guests and best insight into pretty much every sport.

10:15 am - This day in particular is extra special because, not only do I get to listen to Dan Patrick, I am also pleasantly surprised to find numerous afternoon baseball games are on the schedule. First thing I do when I see this is turn on the TV (yes there is a TV in my office). Booyahkah! I find the Tigers game is on ESPN2! My lucky day! I mute the sound so I can continue listening to the radio, but have the game going, so when I look up from doing my work I can see the score and what’s going on.

12:30 pm Today is my lucky day because the angels are playing an early game which means I can stop watching the Tigers game, and switch over to Fox Sports to watch the Angel game! Of course I do switch back to make sure the other game is still going along okay.

1:00 pm - The Dan Patrick Show has now come to an end. What awesome show do the programmers have for me now? Why it’s the Gary Miller and Dimarco Farr West Coast Bias Show. I listen to these guys for probably about 20-30 minutes tops. They aren't really that good, and they usually don't know what they are talking about. I can't recommend them to anyone, unless you like crappy radio, then by all means listen!

2:00 pm - The two baseball games I had been watching are now over. Luckily this is when the prime ESPN TV programming kicks in. At 2:00 I watch a show called Around the Horn. The show has journalists from all regions of the country on tv screens to discuss the topics of the day. Most days they have a couple of really annoying columnists.

2:30 pm - Right after Around the Horn, my favorite talk show on ESPN comes on, Pardon the Interruption. The show features hosts Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser discussing sporting news of the day. They are usually pretty blunt and honest. If someone is being stupid, arrogant, selfish, they will come out and say so, not having to tip toe around the issues like other shows. This is one of the highest rated shows on ESPN, so it has to be good.

3:00 pm - Sportscenter comes on. This way I get a recap of all the games that happened earlier as well as previews for the later games. It is pretty much the quintessential show in sports.

4:00 pm - At this time I usually turn off my TV and turn the radio back on. Not sure why though cause the only thing I can get in my office sports related is The Big Show, with Mason and Ireland. These two guys together usually make about as much sense as a bear driving a car. There is never any logic too them, yet I listen anyway, go figure.

4:30 pm - East coast night games start around this time. ESPN is currently covering the Red Sox game. They seem to play almost every single Red Sox or Yankee game. It’s kind of annoying, but I guess that’s where most of the fan loyalties lie. I mean no one wants to see the riveting Royals vs. Devil Ray game do they?

5:00 pm - Yes! It's time to go home. Yes in case you forgot I was at work this entire time. At 5:00 pm, I get back in my car and turn on 570 AM for the Good Times Show. I think I would like this show a lot better if it were only Money, but alas he has Joe Grande and Wayne Cook to help him co-host. This show is pretty easy to get through to on the phone. I was lucky enough to win Harlem Globetrotter tickets from the show! Trust me, if you haven't seen the globetrotters, you are missing out. Occasionally I will check what Mason and Ireland are doing, but for the most part the ride home is all 570.

6:30 pm - Get home after a long drive home and the first thing I want to do is relax. Naturally I read the paper. I'll usually do the soduku puzzle and then head for the sports section. I usually read the TJ Simers article first, as he is sarcastic and funny and has even used me in one of his articles (true story I have a copy of it). After that I'll flip over to the Dodger and Angel updates for the game that day, or the upcoming series.

7:00 pm - Sweet, its a Dodger home game today! You know what that means, me sitting and watching them for the next 3 hours. I usually expect the worst when watching a Dodger game, especially during the time period that this game was being played in.

10:00 pm - Go online, read up on any late breaking nightly sports stories on the same websites I read earlier in the day.

11:30 pm - Just about bedtime, set my sleep timer so my tv will automatically turnoff. What do I fall asleep to? That’s a pretty easy question, the ESPN news channel.

So yeah, that was a pretty fun day I think. I don't have an addiction or some sort of illness right? I didn't think so, but I thought I would share this with you all just to prove my point. Some people just don't understand it’s totally normal I guess. Oh well. I hope I have another one of these days soon.