The Most Inane Comparison in the World

Apparently July is the emptiest of all months in the sporting universe. As proof, the only proof necessary, is the kerfuffle over the supposed theoretical victor in an altogether impossible basketball game between the original Olympic dream team of 1992 and today’s of 2012. This idiotic episode was prompted by a question posed a few weeks back to Kobe Bryant pondering who would win. Kobe, often regarded as a legendarily competitive athlete, answered in the somewhat hesitant affirmative. There are almost endless reasons why there is absolutely no way to know which team would win in this theoretical matchup, the first being the absence of time travel (required for resolution). Unfortunately, this unconditional fact was no deterrent whatsoever to many commentators determined to opine; leading to many unlistenable sports radio shows and unreadable sports news websites for almost a week. Recently, the argument mercifully jumped the shark with President Obama jumping on board to declare his support for the 1992 team, the conventional (yet still completely subjective and unprovable) answer given by most. This whole episode might seem to be innocuous and it could have been but the indignation displayed by some commentators with regard to a question without an answer, completely based on subjective feelings, was so stupid, inane and annoying that it begs for scorn. It wouldn’t prove anything but maybe Michael Jordan, who appears to have taken to retirement donut in hand, will lead the 1992 team back onto the court one more time in an attempt to end this national nightmare.