Okay kids, it's time for some Real Talk up in this bitch.
I missed a lot of MMA in 2011.
And I thought "It's okay. I'm in this sport for the long haul. I haven't been watching this sport since the 90's dark ages, like some of you, but in the past decade, you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who has been more dedicated to discussion of this fine sport on this fine forum."
and so, I thought, in 2012, Boogie will come back to MMA-GAF with a vengeance.
But then.....
Injury after gawd-damned injury after fucking injury.
And then I come on here. And I read some of your well-intentioned defences of Dana and the Ultimate.
About how, sure, endless matchups over the next two months have been foiled by injury....but 5 of those 8 cards are "free", so you have no right to complain.
....
okay, let me stop you folks there. It's time for a lesson from Uncle Boog.
For you lonely shut-ins, you fine people who watch every. single. card. from the cold comfort of your computer screens, sure, every Fox, FX, and Fuel card (and, frankly, PPV card) is "free."
but let me drop some demographic truth-bombs on you here.
Boogie is, today, a late-20s professional, spending his days putting bad guys behind bars, and making a damn good penny doing so. The idea of paying to watch Ultimate isn't a stopping point. No.
Instead, it's a little economics concept called the "opportunity cost." Which is to say, every night Boogie might spend at home watching Ultimate in front of his computer screen is a night he is not spending hanging out with his friends, or his family, or with a hot woman. And as much as Canadians love their ultimate, in 2012, with diluted products, and injured stars, it is incredibly difficult for Boogie to say to his friends "Hey! let's spend Saturday night watching these guys you have never heard of scrap like they have no employable skills!" Quoth Mister Lesnar, even Boogie cannot turn chicken shit into chicken salad, for his friends.
That is the aspect that seems to escape all y'all internet shutins. As a a Canadian, it is ridiculous to describe how enthusiasm for this sport has bottomed-out with GSP's absence. That's just a fact; one I am not proud to admit.
It doesn't matter if the event is "free." If it ain't worth a shit, people with social lives, like moi are forced with the choice of going out with friends on the town, or watching Ultimate solo in front of their computer screen. And that is why the dilution of the product + crazy injuries is so detrimental to the sport in 2012.
