The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

There are times I'll skim through comments posted below articles. Once in a while, they'll contain decent, civilized discussions. However, such conversations seem to typically be with regard to the touchy topics of politics and religion. When it comes to sports, it's less likely to come across one of these talks than it is to discover a winning lottery ticket while drunk at a bar called "Gettin' U Sh*tfaced." While I'm a definite sports lover, I am not obsessed with any one team or player. I watch sports because I enjoy the passion, physicality, competition, and most of all, strategy and execution. I often times view sports like I would movies. The ones I enjoy the most have a good flow to them, possess an interesting plot, and leave me out of breath after an exhilarating climax. Even then, though, I often times have to roll my eyes at ESPN and the like, because like most cable news channels anymore, ESPN comes across more as a hybrid of a sports channel...

As I've said before, while I love fact-checking to the point where some may call me obsessive about it, even I will admit that sometimes fact-checkers go too far. I brought this up a couple weeks ago when Republican New Jersey Governor was fact-checked for saying his favorite cartoon at four years of age was Scooby-Doo . Since that cartoon wasn't around when he was four, the fact-checker made it known to the world that this couldn't be true. That resulted in a facepalm on my part. I can't even remember what my favorite shows were when I was ten years old, let alone four. Give the guy a break. It's not like he was trying to woo the vote of a 4-year old kid, or if he runs for the presidency, the undecideds will potentially break the other way due to Scoobygate. That brings me to another such scenario, and actually, this one may be worse than Scoobygate, if you can believe that. At least with Scoobygate, the fact-checker contended that Christie could get a "pass...