This excitement isn’t just about the fun of baseball. It’s not about the prize. It’s about the gloating and rubbing their noses in it. The “Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah! We beat you!” taunting if you will, that comes with the winning. — Chicken Little

The Winter Olympics are going on now, and for the most part, I’m not watching.  It’s supposed to be an opportunity for the people of the world to come together to compete for the joy of competition.  What it has turned out to be is an opportunity for corruption, waste, poor sportsmanship, and show-boating.  Every athlete seems to come with their own made-for-TV backstory, every game of tiddlywinks is an opportunity for geo-political overanalysis on cable TV.

I think I’ll just watch old films of Cassius Clay.  He talked less smack than today’s Olympians.