Body ABCs San Diego Sports with uncle Orie

Hello San Diego. My name is Orie Roberts. This is my first installment of my very own San Diego Sports Blog. I have been a huge sports fan since my dad threw me my first baseball at about the age of four. I am a fan of the entire aspect of sport. I’m completely involved in every facet of the sporting world, I’m hooked and will never be free of it’s grip. I watch awe inspiring stories unfold every day in sports. I also take notice as some sports stars completely implode and make decisions that make everything they have worked for vanish. I am interested in the entire spectrum of the wide world of sports. From a back up kicker in Northern Colorado stabbing the first string punter in a fight for the starting job to an autistic kid making six three-pointers at a high school basketball game in New York. I’m there listening to every little thing, absorbing it all and storing it for a conversation in the future. Now this will be my outlet as I interpret the sports stories within the great city of San Diego, and even some outside of it.

I am from Montana originally and have never had a hometown team that played on a professional level. This hometown feeling is something that I have taken notice of in my time here. To have a group of people work so hard on your behalf creates a beautiful and comforting emotion. You belong to something bigger than just yourself. Sports bring a common emotion and will to thousands of people at a time. It can disapoint a city or bring it to heights never thought imagined. San Diego felt unstoppable as LaDanian Tomlinson triumphantly ran into the end zone to break Shaun Alexander’s record set only a year before, but then collapsed together when Marlon McCree fumbled an interception to put the game away against the Patriots that same year. Sports are special, if you only take the time to see it. It has the power to affect the outlook of an entire city. To be swaying on that edge is something that I knew I was missing out on living in a place that every person had their own opinions about their own teams. In Montana you would be lucky to find another person who shared your passion for a single team. Here there is a togetherness, if there is success it is shared by even the most casual sports fan. How many people in San Diego would hear about the news if the Padres were to win the world series? Everybody, it would be a positive and casual thing to talk about. In a town that always has good weather it gives you something else to casually talk about.

I believe in sports. I believe in the way they make me feel. I love to see a skinny 5′9″ shortstop, that looks like nothing, win the MVP in the world series. I believe in playing tackle football at school when you’re eight, at least until the teacher tells you that you can’t tackle at school. I believe in Jake Peavy’s right arm and LaDanian’s legs. I believe in small ball, good pitching, and the camo jerseys. I believe that San Diego has a great chance to become an amazingly successful sports town. I believe that the sports arena should host the Gulls once again and that the Chargers should never move away from mission valley. Most importantly I believe in the overall goodness in people who play sports and the image they convey to kids like me that emulated everything they did. I believe in the competitiveness of every athlete in sports today and the companionship that it creates. I miss the way I used to feel while playing sports and use the professional athletes as a way to get some of that back. I know that San Diego is a great sports town and I can’t wait to talk more about it.