I was doing some computer work Sunday afternoon after the weather turned ugly outside and decided to turn on the Los Angeles Lakers at Memphis Grizzlies game for a bit of background noise.

Shortly after I turned the game on, Lakers’s big man Anthony Davis got tangled up in the paint and seemed to tweak a shoulder. The announcers indicated he’d headed to the lockerroom early for the half and I thought nothing more of it. To me, it appeared as though he might have had his shoulder pop out of its socket and go right back it. It’s disconcerting, to say the least, and everything sort of goes numb. It’s happened to me a few times and, I’d imagine, it happens to professional athletes fairly regularly as well.

Following the obligatory commericial break, ABC studio host Mike Greenberg welcomed us to the proceedings and then vocalized the concern over the Davis injury. Then, he did something I cannot comprehend. Rather than throw it to the only former professional basketball player on the set, Jalen Rose – whom one could reasonably deduce may have suffered a similar injury or, at the very least, been in the presence of one prior – Greenberg chose instead to throw it to Stephen A. Smith.

Smith proceeded to bloviate, as he is want to do, about how Davis must return and if he does not the Lakers will be doomed and what a travesty it was that he could be lost less-than 24 minutes of the post-season. Blah, blah, blah.

I could not shut the television off fast enough.

It reminded me of why, nearly a decade, ago I gave up sports talk radio for Lent.

I’ve never returned.

I’m also happy to say that, as a general rule, I avoid all things Stephen A. Smith: print, radio, TV, Internet, doesn’t matter. I neither have the time nor the desire to listen to folks create tension in order to “debate” about a topic under the guise of providing information.

Life’s too short to take on unnecessary stress that can be spewed from the talking heads.

I’ll happily subscribe to my man Alfred E. Neuman‘s motto, “What, me worry?”