IPL sucks

I cannot believe that I have not posted anything to my blog for the past 18 months. I do not even know if the links in my blog works anymore. It directly coincides with the time I started working for esurance. The whole IPL thing is blown out of proportion. BCCI got the whole idea from ICL and have basically multiplied everthing by 50 times which has swept people out of their feet all over the country. The amount of money paid for everybody is just ridiculous. Advantages 1) More cricket 2) You see exciting mix of talents which you can only dream about play in the same team 3) Twenty20 format Why it sucks? 1) All the money which would have pooled into different entertainment areas like cinema, hockey, etc are now getting channelled even more into cricket. If this trend continues for another year, Reserve bank might end up gettign loans from BCCI. 2) Atleast before students had brief time in between series to concentrate on studies but now it is just non stop cricket all the time. At a young age you just dont realise how much time you are wasting on cricket which could have been otherwise used to hone your skills 3) If Sehwag hits a monster six over long on, it seemed exciting before but now with so much cricket played, nothing seems exquisite. 4) Cheerleaders - This is the only thing that our youngsters were not exposed to, but now they have another reason to go to a cricket game. 5) Talents all around the world instead of aiming to cement a place in the national side are now only aiming to play a season for one of the IPL teams and settle for life after that. That is the ridiculous amount they are offering. 6) National cricket series will not have the same intrest as before because of the overkill. 7) With so many companies involved in the fray, this is not about cricket anymore, it is about a company trying to make profits at any cost, which opens the door again for match fixing. Any more reasons required to get rid of IPL and go back to our original format?