Summer = Overrated

Back in July, Doug Gottlieb of ESPN Radio declared on his radio show that summer is "totally overrated" for everyone over the age of 18 who doesn't work in a school.

You know what? He's absolutely right.

Summer has been pumped up as the greatest season of the year, but now that it's gone and fall is here, I must say, I prefer the fall.
-The summer has the Tour de France and occasionally a World Cup or Olympics (both of which are only occasionally interesting), but other than that summer sports are boring.
-It's almost always too hot (we had a stretch of 14 straights days over 100 in Fresno back in July)
-People expect you to get out of the house and get some fresh air (as if the air outside is honestly fresh in summer)
-There are big crowds and long lines everywhere, kids are all around trying to get you to run into them in parking lots
-Prices go up for gas, plane tickets, hotels, etc.
-People want to have family reunions
-In shape people walk around with less clothes on making the less fit feel more self-conscious than usual.
-TV is all reruns and shows that are either rip-offs or weren't good enough to get picked up for the regular TV season (Here's lookin at you, "The One: Making a Music Star")

When you really think about it, summer may be the worst season of the year[although in any place where there is snow and freezing temperatures, winter is definitely worst, but since I don't live in such a place, my argument still stands]

Winter has Christmas, New Years, MLK Day, Preisdent's Day, Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl, Oscar-caliber movies in theaters, and best of all, we're as far away as possible from election season.

Spring has the flowers in bloom, Easter, graduations, wonderful weather, clean air, the start of the baseball season, the NFL draft, and movie award season (honestly, who doesn't love handicapping the Oscar races?).

In my opinion, Fall = wonderful and the best of all seasons. The weather is great, kids are back in school and not in my way, prices go down, there are holidays coming up, it's pro and college football season, the baseball playoffs are coming, and the NBA season is coming. New seasons of current shows and new shows premiere on television, there's less yard work to be done, and it's getting closer to the time when we can light up the fireplace.

The only real downside to fall is that there are youth soccer games on Saturday mornings at the elementary school down the street from my house and it makes it very difficult to get home from work on Saturday mornings with parents and kids running across the street with reckless abandon.

So with apologies to the Beach Boys (of whom I am a big fan), summer = overrated.