SportsCenter or NYCenter?

" Do you think anybody will see this?!" Brought to you by Badia

I turned on the television earlier tonight and decided I wanted to check out one of my favorite television programs, Sportscenter.As expected, the Yankees and Mets game seemed to monopolize much of my Sportscenter time. Never mind that there were teams with much better records playing.

Annoyed, I watched as the anchors also reminded us to tune in to, what else, the Yankees-Redsox game on Sunday.

Wooptee Doo.

I can already see the opening highlight reel for sportscenter on Sunday night......a little defensive catch by Jeter here, a homerun by Manny there...(insert Sportscenter highlight reel beat,"du nuh nuh-du nuh nuh", and voila! A typical over-hyped Yankees/Redsox game shoved into our faces,and not the lightly-fluffed-whipped- cream-pie-in-the-face kind of shove...no, it's the big-brother-with-heavy-object-and I-cant-breathe-right-now-kind of shove.

Quite uncomfortable.

I understand that these are big cities with big money, but the rest of the country is left out to dry like a wet towel on a tree branch. It's not as if all of the people of the Midwest sit on ugly floral couches after a day of work in the corn fields and milking cows, excited to see 'big city folk'.

I mean, give us a break. We DO have a Walmart! What else do you need!?!?!? (Let the sarcasm ooze...wait, it's not done...there. Ahhhh, now doesnt that feel better?)

It's more than the bias, though. See, when I wait to watch the highlights from a Cardinals game, I get the same feeling I got when I was younger and my dad would forget to pick me up from my Aunt's house. I remember sitting and waiting patiently. It was awkward and unnecessary. It felt downright bad and I vowed never to go to anyone's house ever again. But of course I went to visit people, and of course, I continue to watch Sportcenter, no matter how neglected I feel.

I sit through highlight after highlight, changing the channel during commercials. I return to find the anchors telling us to check out how many hotdogs some skinny Japanese guy can eat.

"MAN," I think to myself, "I must've just missed the Cardinals. There's nooo way they showed the hot dog stuffin' Japanese guy before the National League Pennant winning Cardinals!"

but...what's this? According to the anchors, the Cardinals game highlights are after the break. Again.

How they tease me so. Sigh.

Yeah, yeah. I realize this is a topic discussed many times before, but what the heck, it's my turn to vent. The two Boston and New York producers working at Sportscenter (that's my theory anyway) need to give the rest of us a break. As Michael Wilbon of PTI put it once, we don't care about New York. And for the record, we don't care about Boston or Barry Bonds or anything beginning with 'B' for that matter, either.

As for the hot dog snarfing, skinny Japanese man, that's OK, as long as we get through all the highlights from the actual games first.

Now, if you don't mind, I have some corn eating to do on my ugly floral couch which, naturally, I will wash down with some fresh, albeit warm, milk.