Clan Webb

For years, I have seen biorhythm charts and software that purport to help you plan the high and low points of your life. If you ever look at one, you’ll see that the three waves run on different cycles. But, since the cycles are regular, they will all eventually sync up such that all three are down or all three are up. Over the past week, I feel like my sports biorhythm is syncing up.

You see, I have three major sports teams I root for and feel a real emotion about when they win. I have been a Blazers fan since elementary school. I have been a Seahawks fan since high school. I became a Mariners fan during our stint living in Seattle. Now, at any given point in the year, I have one or two teams to be rooting for and following.

This last week the Blazers drafted a center who is both young and talented. He seems to be a truly nice guy, to boot. People are talking about building a stable core of talent like we haven’t seen since the Drexler days of the late eighties. The fact is that Drexler’s teams never had a good center (apologies to Kevin Duckworth). Arvydas Sabonis came along a few years later and would have been a great fit with those Drexler teams had he left the Soviet Union/Lithuania earlier. I guess that means the Blazers biorhythm was just a little off then. I think the Blazers of the next decade have the opportunity to be even better, and I’m going to get to watch every day of it.

The Mariners seemed to have peaked between ’95 and ’01 with the Refuse To Lose teams and the 116 win monster. Today, though, they completed their second consecutive sweep of winning teams and are twelve games over .500. They are playing great baseball and I’m having fun watching them again.

Finally, the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl two years ago and narrowly missed a return visit last year due mostly to critical injuries on the team and a leaky offensive line. I believe they are prepared for a strong run this year.

So, it is not unreasonable to think of all three of my teams making the playoffs with a chance to make some noise. None are locks to win, but they’ll be challenging. I’m used to having to write one or two of my teams off during a year and rooting for the one that happens to be on an upswing. Over the next couple of years, I think all three of my teams will either be approaching or finishing their peak period.

I plan to enjoy it while it lasts. I just won’t look ahead to that point in the biorhythm chart where they all sync up again, because that’s usually when they all bottom out.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 4:17 pm by Wyatt and is filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.