how about a baseball in the face?

I'll admit it.

I'm not an avid fan of baseball.

I don't look for the Sports section every morning.

I don't keep up with the statistics.

I don't jump in when my dad and brother are wasting the afternoon away on the couch.

Heck, I don't enjoy the sport at all.

I hate hearing it.

I hate watching it.

I hate my brother stealing the remote from me so I can't switch it to Food Network when he's not looking.

Mostly because in my brain, the sound of SPORTS on the tv directly connects to males being lazy and clueless and jumping into sporadic moments of cacophonous yelling, which then connects to giant HEADACHE for yours truly.

So forgive me if my home country happens to OWN in a certain World Baseball Classic and make it all the way to the final round.  Forgive me if it's against only our biggest, longest, strongest rival ever - JAPAN.  Forgive me if this is a game that everyone in your household is excited about (with good reason), and I SORT OF WANT TO WATCH IT.

But wait - you're probably wondering where all this negative energy is coming from.  Maybe I'm a little too ahead of myself.  Let me rewind to approximately one hour ago, when I was checking out my Facebook newsfeed and snickering at all the evil statuses being posted by bitter Koreans - when I saw this one from a high school alumni whom I will not name:

__________ is thank God the WBC is over so people who don't watch baseball can stop pretending like they do!!

Oh haaaayl no, right?  Those "people" have a freakin right to be excited, and at that moment, I wanted nothing more but to shove that in his face.  So, even though I think I've spoken...zero words to this guy in my lifetime, I respond:

"It's called patriotism."

Woohoo!  Bold/clever response, huh?  Yay me!

So I'm all reveling in my little victory, but a little too prematurely because soon after, I get another notification - it's him.

"Myofb." (For the tech-challenged: Mind your own f-ing business.)

First thoughts: 

1) ...what?

2) Uh, excuuuuse me little seasoned baseball player (imagine the palm thrusted in the face).  If you never watched baseball, and Mexico was in the final round, would you really not watch it just because you wanted to stay true to your non-fanship?  Oh, but wait, they weren't even close to being in the final so I guess that scenario's a little hard to comprehend.  Sorry =/

3) How bout YOU "myofb" and not care about the background of each person watching the game.  How bout YOU just "myofb" that we have a little thing called national pride.  How bout YOU "myofb" and just watch the game.  Mmm?  Yeah.

But then I thought none of these would be appropriate responses.  After all, I like to think I'm above cyber wars on Facebook statuses with someone I'd never address in person.  And...well, I just got owned on all public newsfeeds of the 155 mutual friends we have, and I'd rather not draw any more attention to myself.

But really.

I'm sorry that I don't watch baseball every single freakin day and decide to watch tonight's because dang, that just makes me a little stinkin hypocrite.  Staying true to hating sports > patriotism, for SURE, right?

-______-

Puh-lease.