Bleacher Report: Thrilling...and Chilling

I'm sitting in my backyard and trying to think of yet another made up article to produce for the Bleacher Report. In the last few weeks, the sheer quantity of articles rehashing the same basic story lines has got me sad—and thinking.

Why are we writing?

Is it our "love" for our team? Is it the attempt to start anew in an area we've all wet dreamed about participating in? Is it the fact that, like many of our peers, we're simply bored? Is it that we have nothing better to do?

Don't get me wrong—I like attempting to divine how my team is going to perform as much as the next guy, but I'm starting to think this is merely an exercise in preaching to the choir. At the very least it's a hell of an echo chamber.

We all eat, sleep, and breathe our respective teams. Some of us have the ability to write about it. A few of us have an ungodly attachment to taking note of every little detail concerning the in's and out's of the teams we've come to adore so dearly.

So, what in the hell are we saying?

And I'm seriously asking that question. As "fan/journalists" why is this important to us? The season will play out the way the season plays out regardless of our feedback.  Often times, and often to our chagrin, in spite of our feedback.

But I suppose I'd probably be writing these articles anyway and I would really like to hear from you guys and gals. Why? 

In this era of openness and—often times—opinion, trumping journalistic "facts;" do we feel that our production is adding anything to the conversation? And if so, what exactly?

I'm a great admirer of sport's ability to simplify and explain very complex life lesson down to the ridiculously over-simplified and cooked over tropes of "work hard and be the best that you can be". But I'm also a great admirer of life's consistent and persistent quality of being far more complex than we would all like to make it.

We've seen over and over again that the business of sports can make us sick to our stomachs, that constant media scrutiny can often times make mountains out of mole hills, that the over-exposure of guys who have worked their entire lives trying to participate in a child's game often leads to a nation wide pandemic of childishness.

So, I leave it to you, sports nation, to tell me your stories. Regale me with the "why" of "what" it is that we're doing here? I'm only one man, and I don't have these answers. But I'd love to listen to those that might.