Most of the time, when I sit down to write, I don't have too difficult a time getting organized. I like to write an outline, I love using roman numerals. But, for some reason, with this column, I've had a little trouble getting my points together. There are some points that I want to make, but I can't make a cogent column that includes all of them. So, while it may be cheap and easy, I'm going with the bulleted list for this one, some assorted thoughts as the Olympics come to a close.

• Stop complaining about the skimpy beach volleyball attire. Isn't that why they have beach volleyball in the Olympics? Isn't that why they're getting rid of softball, it's not sexy enough? Yeah, sure, some valid points have been made about sexiness and athleticism and sexism, but if that's what people wear when they play beach volleyball, then that's what they wear. The question then becomes, should beach volleyball be an Olympic sport? And the answer is 'yes,' if you want the Olympics to be sexy and not that athletically interesting.

• King Kaufman was right, softball shouldn't just be excised from the Olympics but from all organized athletics. Women should be playing baseball. There's no reason why baseball can't be played with visors instead of caps.

• If NBC doesn't stop showing the crying parents of American athletes I don't know what I'm gonna do. Also, I love when the announcers say that just talked to so-and-so American athlete and that the athlete said "this is the most important match/race of my life." Oh, thank you for that info, great journalism, guys.

• I've got two words on the achievement of Usain Bolt: Ben Johnson. Haven't we learned by now, especially in track and field, that if something seems too good to be true, it is.

• I don't understand tennis or other individual sports being in the Olympics. I guess it's cool that Rafael Nadal has a gold medal now, but I really had no idea how to deal with it as it was happening. I mean, I love Nadal and I root for him all the time. But I'm not rooting for Spain, even though I was during the Euro Cup but that's another story, and isn't there a certain brilliance to rooting for the same team from event to event over the course of the games? I mean, it seems weird to pull for Spain in tennis because of the player but root regardless of individual players in other events.

• BMX, really? What on earth are the X Games gonna do now that snowboarding and BMX are in the Olympics? Man, this sucks for Mountain Dew. I don't know if I like this new super sexy, totally stoked Olympics. What's next Formula 1?

• Maybe baseball should be part of the Winter Olympics. Play in a dome. It might mean a little more if the best players in the world were involved. Speaking of the best players in the world, some of us are in a pennant race over here. Is there anyone writing about baseball out there? I love Peter Gammons as much as the next guy, but I need a little variance, you know? Not to mention that Major League Baseball is about to integrate instant replay for home run calls. Things are happening, people.

• You gotta love Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles cruising to gold with his glasses on. Four eyes represent!

• One thing about the Olympics that always kind of frustrated me is the presence of super weird sports, like Badminton. What bothered me in the past was that I always felt that I was deprived at my chance at gold because even though I'm great with a shuttlecock, no one ever told me where to sign up for the US Olympic Badminton team. Of course, I'm probably not tall enough to make the team anyway. However, with softball departing, maybe there's room for croquet, which I am absolutely fantastic at. Come on IOC, I'll make sure to get my white sweater vest dry cleaned by 2012.

• I'm happy for all the producers and editors at NBC who spent months of their time working on a million Michael Phelps montages, at least they got to run all of them. Not so for all the people who worked on fluff pieces about Liu Xiang. All that work down the drain.

• You know what the real problem with watching the Olympics is? It's not the cheesy montages or the exclusive focus on American athletes. It's also not the general complications that arise from the contentious relationship that America and I currently share. No, it's that I have no idea what's going on. NBC is doing what they can, I guess, and putting up fractured schedules on their crash-inducing website. It's the fault of my DVR. I've become so reliant on the schedule feature, that looking at a four hour block marked "Olympics" isn't good enough for me. I need to see blocks for the various events. Maybe two years from now this wont be a problem, but right now one technology hasn't caught up the other. It's growing pains, I guess. But seriously, by the next Olympics, let's get this right.