As the final seconds of Game 5 ticked off the clock, it was a bittersweet moment.
While I had predicted a five-game Lakers victory in the NBA Finals more than a month prior, it also marked a transition into one of the emptier portions of the sports calendar.
The neverending great sports moments of March, April and even May seem so far in the rearview mirror.
Baseball is now the only one of the four major sports still in progress.
(Don't kid me that I'm supposed to already start getting worked up about football season. UF's two-a-days are still nearly two months away, and I couldn't care less about preseason NFL action.)
I'm also more of a Tampa Bay Rays fan than a true MLB fan, so now I just have one team to be passionate about, although thankfully they are trying to make this easy on me, having won their last five games.
But perusing the rest of the summer sports calendar is an exercise in futility.
Watching college baseball on television is 100 times worse than watching pro ball on TV, and that's bad enough as it is.
The end of June features the NBA and NHL drafts. Not exactly triple-overtime Bulls-Celtics games.
Wimbledon usually can carry the load for two weeks, but it looks to have lost its luster if Rafael Nadal is hampered by a knee injury.
Don't worry &ndash there's also several NASCAR Sprint Cup races. I mean, you couldn't pay me to watch one of those, but I'm sure dozens of fans will be eagerly sitting by their televisions somewhere.
So it looks like golf will be the saving grace.
While Tiger Woods' performance at last year's U.S. Open is an experience that probably can't be topped, watching the greatest golfer ever is always something I enjoy. He will try to repeat at Bethpage this weekend, and then the British Open and PGA Championship will have to carry my non-baseball sports viewing for July and August.
It doesn't look good.
C'mon Rays, my fate is in your hands.
