ESPN2: The Deuce

You've got to love that twilight time in sports between the end of the NBA season and the beginning of the NFL season. The only thing happening is baseball and the Tour de Lance. This is evident by the programming served up by ESPN's little brother, "the Deuce". I don't know about you, but I could think of quite a few things I'd like to see sports-wise in the summertime: waterskiing, surfing, volleyball. You know, the beach sports. At 11:00pm last night I got to enjoy watching two large men try to carry two Triumph Speed Triple motorcycles bolted together with some big steel tubing. The object was to carry the darn things a couple hundred feet. The first one to the finish line is the winner. Ah yes, the World's Strongest Man competition. I had to just stop and ask myself, "Why am I watching two large men carry heavy things long distances?" I soon realized why. It became so obvious. It's the same reason many people watch motorsports: the possibility of something going horribly wrong. The facial expressions these guys were making seemed to indicate a pending hernia. Can you imagine all the things that could go wrong with a man carrying 900lbs over a considerable distance? I don't know, maybe it was just the irony of what they were carrying. Hey, why not take one of the bikes, unbolt it from the big steel thingy, and ride it wherever you want to go. Heck, sell the other one, use the money, and take a vacation. Anyway, I digress. The word of the day is "iconic".