Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Worst Jobs in Sports

Because I love to make lists, here is another one.  Today's list will be The Worst Jobs in Sports.  I'm sure I missed a couple obvious ones, but what are you gonna do?  Anyways, this is what I got:
  • Kicker - A football kicker has one job - put the ball through the uprights when asked.  And most times, this job is required as time is running out and if you miss it, your team loses and you are blamed for that loss even though the rest of your team could have played better in the other 60 minutes of play.
  • Relief Pitcher - A starting pitcher can have one bad inning and everybody will just shrug it off because it happens.  A relief pitcher who has one bad inning and it is most likely the only inning they pitched that day and probably resulted in your team losing and you can't redeem yourself because you will have been yanked out of the game right after that.
  • Big Contract Free Agent - You're a free agent and some team pays you a ton of money to come play for them.  If you don't live up to the expectations of the fans, you are hated on which makes it even harder to get out of the funk you are in.  Not to mention, by signing that large contract, you are probably prohibiting the team from signing anybody else that could also help the team.
  • Goalie (Hockey or Soccer) - Your job is to stop a ball or a painful puck from entering the goal.  That's means that all day long your opponent is trying to hurl an object at you as hard as possible with only your body to stop that object.  And if you don't stop it, you are blamed and not the rest of your team for not playing better defense or offense.
  • Tennis Ball Boy - I'm going to put it this way, imagine being the ball boy for the 2010 Wimbledon match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.  It lasted over 8 hours.  I know it took a couple of days to complete, but that's still 8 hours of having to crotch down in an uncomfortable position and then constantly run sprints to grab tennis balls as they go into the net.  That would be torture.
  • Janitor After a Championship - Just look at that picture below.  That is a ton of confetti that will be all over the place.  Confetti that will be covered in sweat and trampled on.  I would not want to have to clean that up no matter how much you pay me.  Well, I take that back, I'm sure there is a price at which I would do it.  But it would have to be pretty high.
"Someone has to clean all of that confetti up.  Sucks for that guy."

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