Week 9 - Wall Street, Sports Edition

Fresh off of another successful spring break, I am more than happy to give the readers the scoop about one of the most popular traditions of March and the spring season to come along with it. Though it doesn't come without controversy regarding the betting and let alone the fun of the sports involvement people tune in to watch and be compared to the uses and gratifications theory, but for the more questionable reasons, that would be through a fan's eyes, for better or worse.

This week's article involves the fact that sports betting has become very much like Wall Street in New York. The writers of that article have many things to talk about how sports have become very dramatic when it comes to betting on the teams that seem to do very well in the bracket busting part of the league and the sections that seemed to follow the number one thing revolving around things that turn sports into a serious business when it comes to the factors of winning and losing that could also lead to the outcome of the future of the team.

In my opinion, this can be compared to the readings that author Arthur Rainey wrote about "deposition and enjoyment" and how enjoying sports in general could be impacted by something that is a very heavy thing to talk about because of how much all of seriousness can take the fun away from sports. It could be a huge impact on the world as well. In his findings in this week's reading, he was referring to many different angles with the whole point of things can be dictated by the fate of the sports could play such a heavy role in the society as a whole to analyze how it can unite people. Or it can tear them apart because of the reasons if they take it too seriously.

Another angle on this would need to be how the stocks are set up in similar fashion to the real world and how fans can react to their teams losing or winning but not getting the spread that they have wanted in order to get the money they win from having their big gamble paying off and their "stock" goes up dramatically because of the end result of that game going in their favor, which is comparable to the business on Wall Street. I think this is a great way to compare this to all of what Rainey has said about watching sports for fun or for seriousness when it comes to how you can bet on.

More on this could also include how people need sports to escape and be a part of something that can lure them out of the real world and into something big. The term arousal can be used in order to talk about how people can bet as well as the charts when the categories were calculated, including of course, entertainment and enjoyment as opposed to concern or worry from other things brought in others' lives too. Alot of fans need that support otherwise they would be in desperation for an answer to their problems.

In conclusion, based off of the latest commodification angles, I do believe that sports has become a business for many people that have put so much on the line in order to get the results that they have wanted regardless of the fact if it's an escape or another way to get worried of what things can do. The so-called "watchdogs" can also be analyzed as a group of people that are focused on the sport through technology and many other millennial uses of today's world, and that will be a great thing to talk about when it comes to monitoring fans and their hopes.