Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host, Steve

Robertson here on the Maroon Friday edition of the yard. Hope things are well with you, wherever you are today. It's Friday, so I hope it's a payday for you. We've got a little funds to get out and do some fun things with the family. Hope that you're able to do that. It's a, listen, it's a great day here in Starvo. It's a beautiful day. It's going to be warm. It's not going to be, you know, stifling. You're going to be able to get out and do some things. And hopefully if you've got some honey to do stuff to do around the house this weekend, maybe you can get out and knock some of that stuff out. I plan to work in the yard a little bit myself. And my hope

is that here in the coming weeks, we're going to have some football weekends. And so we're not going to have time to get out there and do all those things that we've been putting off. You know, we had to quarantine and we probably get caught up and people did some home improvement stuff. But it's one of those things too that you begin to kind of lose your luster for all that sort of stuff if you know what I'm

saying I'm not quite as motivated to get out there and do those things as I did, you know, when I was somewhat bored because of the fact that, you know, we began to have some of the early steps toward normalcy take place. We've got baseball. We've got basketball. We've got hockey. We've got golf coming up this weekend, and I know many of you are excited about the PGA championship. Not really my thing, but listen, I'm glad you get a chance to watch that. But the bottom line is we are beginning to get some things that allow us to kind of recreate a little bit. Even though we're not able to attend those events, we're able to watch them on TV. And sometimes that just kind of takes us away from all the other things in life we've got to deal with. It's a reason you have all that stuff. It's a nice distraction from the work of day life we often have. So for those of you that enjoy those things, I don't watch a lot of hockey. ought to hockey. You know, our colleague, Tala Horka, he's a big Dallas Stars fan. So many of us on the beat kind of adopted the Dallas Stars because of Horka. I know, I believe Ben Portnoy is a Washington Caps fan. So, you know, there is some of that. So I'm glad that they're able to watch that, but I know that everybody on the beat is a huge baseball fan. So it's been nice to kind of sit around and watch, and I'll be honest with you, I don't have really a favorite team anymore. I was a San Francisco Giants fan for many, many, many years because of Will Clark. I was a bravest fan before that, before that a Yankees fan. But, you know, I don't have

that emotional attachment to a Major League Baseball team, so I guess I am a free agent for hire,

I guess you could say. But I do enjoy being able to turn the TV on and watch games where they

actually keep score, and we're working towards, you know, a playoff and a potential championship.

I enjoy that.

Even if I don't have a vested interest in the outcome, I enjoy watching good baseball.

I am much more of a college sports fan.

My interest in the NFL has been somewhat diminished once I became, you know,

an active member of the day-to-day beat with Mississippi State because you spend so much time on the road, you know, covering these teams,

and I'm not in the least bit complaining whatsoever. I love the job that we do. But you get more, you invest so much more of your energy and time into researching Mississippi State and their opponents. And I've shared with you guys, I kind of live in the big maroon bubble.

So when Sundays comes around, unless the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing or DAC,

I don't really watch a lot of NFL football.

I just don't.

I would rather go back honestly and watch the replay of the SEC games that I missed on Sunday.

I'm much more invested in the college game.

I love the college game in every sport much better than the pro game, especially baseball.

And for that respect, basketball too. I just, you know, I like the college game. I think

there is a different level of passion. They actually play defense in college basketball. In college football, you don't see the same plays over and over and over again. There's a lot of innovation. And if you never notice, too, it's like if that's the thing you think about like with the New Orleans Saints, you know, with Drew Breeze, you know, and Sean Peyton and those guys, you know, the NFL game, and especially the Saints and a few others,

they've kind of mimicked some of what Mike Leach has done in the college game.

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