What is a Sport?

One of our commentators wanted to know when Eric Byrnes was going to be on The Best **** Sports Show Period.  She said that when she last watched BDSSP, they were talking about poker. Then she asked:

When did poker become a sport anyway?

We’ve asked this question ourselves.

But it gets worse. There are people who want chess in the Olympics. (Who needs baseball and softball in the Olympics when you can have chess, right?)

And it gets even worse than that. About a month or so ago, one of our local gym’s TVs was playing a documentary about a "rock-paper-scissors" tournament.

In the age of 24/7 specialized cable channels, TV execs keep trying to come up with filler. So we think they have decided that anything drawing a casually-dressed, cheering crowd must be a sport.

Of course, that doesn’t explain why some people think chess should be in the Olympics.

Let’s Go Mets! (In a game where "Rook" has a different meaning).

K.R.