The only thing the Boob loves more than the Boob referring to himself in the third person is a solid trip to Vegas, more specifically a trip centered around spending half the Boob’s time at Garden of Eden, the other half at the casino’s Sports Book.
However, upon the Boob’s trip to Sin City this last weekend, the Boob’s revelry for the Sports Book has been diminished. The Boob realizes that it’s a dying dream. On a weekend where there was the World Series, great college football matchups, the NFL, and the Breeders Cup, the Boob could not have found a sadder sack of losers at some Off Betting Track than what he found lounging in the S to the B.
How, the Boob asked himself, had this oasis in the gambling desert become so depressing? A place to where the Boob had made pilgrimages for colossal events like the first weekend of March Madness, the kickoff to the NFL season, and the Super Bowl?
After mulling it over poolside with a few beers (BTW, a full day of beers poolside is hellua more expensive than throwing back free 12 ouncers in the SB), the Boob came up with four main factors for the current state of the Las Vegas Sports Book downfall:
The Rise of the On-Line (Internet): From the moment Al Gore invented the Internet (actually he just pushed for legislation to allow for public use, but that’s not nearly as funny), Vegas envisioned that it would morph into something out of a horrible Mila Jovovich zombie movie.
But for years, Vegas still thrived. Casinos still went up and they still included a Sports Book. In my assessment, this was only the catalyst, the stage dance before lappers make their way around the club to suck you dry.
Today, we all carry our own champagne rooms around in our pockets where we can get score updates, whenever, wherever (to quote Shakira). We no longer exist in a society where the stage dance is the only option.
The Rise of Poker: I don’t know when it happened, when poker became a sport. At least, ESPN and Fox tell the Boob that it is. (They show it on their networks more than any other single “sport”.) Personally, poker’s fascination in this society coincides when on-line gambling and grew from there.
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