There have been a couple of times since I started blogging that after I put my thoughts on paper (so to speak), I realized a point I was trying to make was inconsistent with other opinions I have. Most recently, I wrote this regarding the ESPY Awards:

“Each year, ESPN hosts and hypes the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards, also known as the ESPYs. To me the concept of a sports award show represents the exact opposite of what makes sports great. In sports (with the possible exception of college football), winners and losers are determined on the field. No one picks who the winners are. No one decides who the best are. The winners emerge throughout the course of the events set forth by the games themselves. No consensus needs to be made to determine who wins the championships.”

The inconsistency is that I have no problem with other established sports awards, such as the Cy Young award or any MVP awards. In fact, I enjoy the debates and analysis devoted to such end of season sports league awards. So why do the ESPY’s turn me off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it has to do with the pageantry of the ceremony. Yet the Heisman trophy presentation usually contains more ceremony than any real drama. Maybe I feel that the existing sports awards are enough. Maybe the categories seem too phony or unnecessary. I am not entirely sure. What I am sure of is that I won’t be watching the ESPY Award show.