Review

Rating: 9

I’m a sports junkie, I must confess. It’s been a huge part of my life since I was 5 years old. I’ve watched Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Gold, Racing — well ,you get the picture — since I can remember. I was never the star athlete in school, unfortunately. I was a bit on the small side until I was 16 and I had asthma, so that hampered my ability to compete effectively (they didn’t have the medicines or knowledge 30 years ago like they do now). What I did was learn the games and really dug into the strategy and fundamentals of the games. I was just as much a fan of the coaches as I was the players, and it’s probably the reason I have been coaching youth sports since I was 16 years old.

“Why My Wife Thinks I’m an Idiot” jumped out at me because first of all, I listen to Mike Greenberg’s radio program whenever I can, and secondly, I know that there’s a lot of people that have no understanding of my deep love for sports and can’t understand what it is about sports that makes me act like a kid. Thankfully, my wife understands, and actually enjoys sports almost a much as me. (So my wife does NOT think I’m an idiot).

This book is Mike’s journal - his obsessive thoughts and musings about his personal life and sports life and how they relate. He is the living definition of the word, metro sexual, and he’s completely obsessive about dozens of things. That is the backdrop for his story about he and his wife’s journey into parenthood. It’s a hilarious and voyeuristic opportunity to observe the life and thoughts of someone that is trying to say sane in his completely neurotic world and situation.

If you enjoy Mike & Mike in the morning, and you are a parent and husband that loves sports, you will find humor, reality, and relief in this book. Thank God someone else is more screwed up than me.

Pick up the book and put it in your bag to read on planes, commutes, or late nights. Its a nice change of pace if you are doing a lot of reading to absorb knowledge. This is the “old-fashioned way” of watching reality - reading it through a man’s eyes, not a TV screen.–Bob