The NCAA is under fire today.
In nine days, the NCAA is supposed to hold the Final Four in Indianapolis.
As of this morning, many GLBT groups are rightly calling for the NCAA to pull out.
The state of Indiana has become the latest state to jump into the "the right of religion gives me the right to discriminate against gays as a function of my relationship with God" farce by signing into law exactly that right -- the right of any business in Indiana (which would include the NCAA itself, whose offices are in Indianapolis) to discriminate against GLBT people on the basis that no one has a right to infringe upon the religious beliefs of any person (corporate or otherwise), or their ability to practice it.
FUCK THAT.
Seriously!
Let me tell you how far this is about to go. There's a fucking idiot in Huntington Beach, CA -- a lawyer who should be disbarred and jailed (and, if he isn't, he could well end up shot within the next 3 months or so!) for actually proposing a ballot initiative in the state of California to execute gay people, giving individual citizens the right to do so if the state fails to execute every gay person in the state within one year of passage (which would place that date around November of 2017). To even support gay rights in California is a million-dollar fine, 10 years in state prison, and expulsion from the state!
And since this Old Testament JACKASS filed it, California Attorney General Kamala Harris (the former DA of San Francisco, from which I post this today) has to go to court and HOPE she can get the court to rule that she is not forced to put this barbaric piece of shit on the track for 360,000 signatures to put it on the 2016 General Election ballot.
Even putting out the signatures WILL kill people -- and THAT is the bullshit that members of the GLBT community are up against -- and THAT is why there are people today demanding the NCAA pull the Final Four out.
They won't. Let's not fool ourselves. The homophobia in the American Sports Machine is quite alive and well.
Why? The people like Darren Sharper -- and those at the University of Oregon, as reported by Deadspin today.
A University of Oregon student was raped by three members of the 2013-14 basketball team. The school actually found them guilty, but there was a catch: The students were still allowed to play in Oregon's run in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
Two months ago, the victim sued the University, not only for that fact and not only for the fact that the counseling records were given to the University's lawyers (expecting this litigation), but for failure to protect.
Karen Stokes was the executive to the assistant to the director of the counseling center. She protested the release of the records.
The University of Oregon FIRED HER ASS for that.
Is it going to take violence before GLBT's and women actually get an ounce of rights here?
Is it really going to take people taking the law into their own hands and forcing the hands of bigoted lawyers and universities (and schools at lower levels) which exist only for the promotion and propagation of sports teams to force people to come correct?
Tick tock, world. Tick fucking tock.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
More updates on the Euro hooliganism
Finally, some more of the decisions:
Celtic: It's not hard to see why they keep going in front of the committee, when their ninth offense only gets a 5000 Euro fine for the fireworks and 8000 Euros for the seven yellow cards.
Internationale (Milan), their opponents in that match, also had fans set off fireworks and got the same 5000 Euro fine.
Dinamo Moskva got 20000 Euros for a larger nature of the same offense.
A February 26 match between SSC Napoli and Trabzonspor led to 100,000 Euros in fines.60,000 for Napoli and 40,000 for Trabzonspor.
Yep, more fireworks.
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If UEFA can't get their fucking fans even under the degree of control not to threaten to burn down the stadia at any matches they have, it may be time to shut the whole goddamned mess down before American football fans start getting the same ideas and actually doing it.
Celtic: It's not hard to see why they keep going in front of the committee, when their ninth offense only gets a 5000 Euro fine for the fireworks and 8000 Euros for the seven yellow cards.
Internationale (Milan), their opponents in that match, also had fans set off fireworks and got the same 5000 Euro fine.
Dinamo Moskva got 20000 Euros for a larger nature of the same offense.
A February 26 match between SSC Napoli and Trabzonspor led to 100,000 Euros in fines.60,000 for Napoli and 40,000 for Trabzonspor.
Yep, more fireworks.
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If UEFA can't get their fucking fans even under the degree of control not to threaten to burn down the stadia at any matches they have, it may be time to shut the whole goddamned mess down before American football fans start getting the same ideas and actually doing it.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Still want to tell me football isn't an allegory for rape?
Darren Sharper -- 9 to 20 years for a plea-agreement for rapes in at least FOUR STATES!!
And this was supposed to be one of the GOOD GUYS...
Anybody wanna bet this guy was raping women his entire freaking life, and only really got "caught" after he was of no further use to Football Nation America after his 2010 retirement...
And this was supposed to be one of the GOOD GUYS...
Anybody wanna bet this guy was raping women his entire freaking life, and only really got "caught" after he was of no further use to Football Nation America after his 2010 retirement...
Friday, March 20, 2015
Judgement Day at UEFA...
I've had a number of other non-sports issues come up today, so hopefully I can reduce stress by catching up on a story I've been following a bit.
A number of the first-knockout-phase Champions' League and Europa League matches were marred by incident - and March 19 was the date for a hearing on a number of the more egregious counts.
New incident: Dynamo Kiev has been charged again, this time for racist conduct (again) in a match where they were partially-closed-doored for conduct in their home match in the Round of 32 -- this one was their home match in the Round of 16.
Be interesting to see if they are allowed to continue, and under what conditions. That hearing is March 26th.
New incident: Barcelona, illicit banner in their home match. That one will go all the way to May for their hearing.
Decisions:
The direct red card for Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris St. Germain) will only cost him one match instead of the standard three.
Serge Aurier (Paris St. Germain) will sit THREE matches for insulting comments on social media.
(You'd think, in this day and age, most organized sports teams would just ban their players off of social media and be done with it...)
No word from UEFA on Feyenoord, Celtic, Bayer Leverkusen, or Dinamo Moskva.
A number of the first-knockout-phase Champions' League and Europa League matches were marred by incident - and March 19 was the date for a hearing on a number of the more egregious counts.
New incident: Dynamo Kiev has been charged again, this time for racist conduct (again) in a match where they were partially-closed-doored for conduct in their home match in the Round of 32 -- this one was their home match in the Round of 16.
Be interesting to see if they are allowed to continue, and under what conditions. That hearing is March 26th.
New incident: Barcelona, illicit banner in their home match. That one will go all the way to May for their hearing.
Decisions:
The direct red card for Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris St. Germain) will only cost him one match instead of the standard three.
Serge Aurier (Paris St. Germain) will sit THREE matches for insulting comments on social media.
(You'd think, in this day and age, most organized sports teams would just ban their players off of social media and be done with it...)
No word from UEFA on Feyenoord, Celtic, Bayer Leverkusen, or Dinamo Moskva.
2015 NCAA Day One: Now I'm a bit more suspicious...
Last year, after day one, according to ESPN, there were over 18,700 brackets that went 16 for 16.
Yesterday, there were only 273.
So why (else) does this get mentioned here?
A Yahoo! video I saw, indicating that yesterday, at least at the MGM Grand, was the second most profitable day in history, according to Jay Rood, VP of the Race and Sports Division of MGM Resorts.
The first ten games in the tournament were 0-10 against the spread.
I guess he may be speaking in general, but Rood says the only day that would be better for the books is a Super Bowl where the bettors get creamed.
One does have to wonder, though... Could this be another indication that games might be getting looked at with Vegas in mind?
Be careful playing with a stacked deck....
Yesterday, there were only 273.
So why (else) does this get mentioned here?
A Yahoo! video I saw, indicating that yesterday, at least at the MGM Grand, was the second most profitable day in history, according to Jay Rood, VP of the Race and Sports Division of MGM Resorts.
The first ten games in the tournament were 0-10 against the spread.
I guess he may be speaking in general, but Rood says the only day that would be better for the books is a Super Bowl where the bettors get creamed.
One does have to wonder, though... Could this be another indication that games might be getting looked at with Vegas in mind?
Be careful playing with a stacked deck....
Thursday, March 19, 2015
We Have Only Two Questions Left On This UCLA Situation
1) How many more favors are you going to get in this tournament?
First, you got in the tournament at all.
Second, the committee saw fit to place four at-large teams beneath you (so you didn't have to play Tuesday or Wednesday).
Now, we get an almost-certain gift (to which the only question is the second) in your first game today.
I'm grabbing both the GIF and a relevant picture from the Deadspin article, but you need the see this and then I'll ask the second question, which both me and my friend have been asking since we've seen this:
The GIF:
The situation is that UCLA is down two with about 15 seconds to go. Watch the video at the linked article.
A desperation 3 is heaved up from the near side of the basket. The better replay is the above-basket one which follows the call.
This, the rule for goaltending, as pasted on the article, is why:
All relevant sections of Article 3 indicate that the ball must have the possibility of entering the basket.
Stop the video at 22 seconds, just as the ball is being tapped, and then watch the angle again on the original GIF.
That ball was not entering the basket, and had no chance to do so.
That was NOT goaltending.
Worse yet, the call is made by THIS OFFICIAL, THIRTY-FIVE FEET from the basket...
There's a ref under the basket, there's one roughly in the line of the trajectory of the shot.
And THAT GUY makes the call.
So, now, my second question:
2) Is this incompetent officiating, or is this a blatant rig job for UCLA?
Oh, and their fourth gift already since Sunday? They play a 14-seed in RoundThree Two.
First, you got in the tournament at all.
Second, the committee saw fit to place four at-large teams beneath you (so you didn't have to play Tuesday or Wednesday).
Now, we get an almost-certain gift (to which the only question is the second) in your first game today.
I'm grabbing both the GIF and a relevant picture from the Deadspin article, but you need the see this and then I'll ask the second question, which both me and my friend have been asking since we've seen this:
The GIF:
The situation is that UCLA is down two with about 15 seconds to go. Watch the video at the linked article.
A desperation 3 is heaved up from the near side of the basket. The better replay is the above-basket one which follows the call.
This, the rule for goaltending, as pasted on the article, is why:
All relevant sections of Article 3 indicate that the ball must have the possibility of entering the basket.
Stop the video at 22 seconds, just as the ball is being tapped, and then watch the angle again on the original GIF.
That ball was not entering the basket, and had no chance to do so.
That was NOT goaltending.
Worse yet, the call is made by THIS OFFICIAL, THIRTY-FIVE FEET from the basket...
There's a ref under the basket, there's one roughly in the line of the trajectory of the shot.
And THAT GUY makes the call.
So, now, my second question:
2) Is this incompetent officiating, or is this a blatant rig job for UCLA?
Oh, and their fourth gift already since Sunday? They play a 14-seed in Round
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Boy, the NFL is all for sexual violence, but they don't want it so obvious, so stay away, Rapeis...
Earlier this week it was announced that "sources" claimed that Jameis Winston, the rapist who's likely to be the #1 draft pick in Chicago this year in about six weeks, would not attend the NFL draft.
Now Bleacher Report has stated that it believes the NFL had a lot to do with that decision, stating that Winston's presence may bring protests. Winston met with the NFL in early March, and shut down his Twitter account shortly after.
Here's a hint, dummies: Until football is changed (har har) so as not to be an allegory for rape in and of itself and an excuse for the men to rape their wives/girlfriends/anything female which moves, this is going to be truth.
Perhaps it is finally time for women to protest -- and violently if possible! -- against the sport of football and the animals who play it....
Now Bleacher Report has stated that it believes the NFL had a lot to do with that decision, stating that Winston's presence may bring protests. Winston met with the NFL in early March, and shut down his Twitter account shortly after.
Here's a hint, dummies: Until football is changed (har har) so as not to be an allegory for rape in and of itself and an excuse for the men to rape their wives/girlfriends/anything female which moves, this is going to be truth.
Perhaps it is finally time for women to protest -- and violently if possible! -- against the sport of football and the animals who play it....
The Ratbirds are at it again, I see...
Bernard Pierce, DUI arrest. (Source: Yardbarker.)
Why does this get it's own mention? We're about six weeks into the off-season already, and this is the THIRD Baltimore Raven to be arrested. The first two, Terrence Cody and Victor Hampton, were both cut by the Ravens as a result, according to the article.
(EDIT TO ADD: Make it three. Pierce has been cut as well.)
Why does this get it's own mention? We're about six weeks into the off-season already, and this is the THIRD Baltimore Raven to be arrested. The first two, Terrence Cody and Victor Hampton, were both cut by the Ravens as a result, according to the article.
(EDIT TO ADD: Make it three. Pierce has been cut as well.)
OK, Twitter-Head, You Can Please SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
Two stories from the last couple of days which indicate to me that Twitter (and the Internet at large) are turning into a total loss.
Story #1 starts on Sunday with an apparently-grimacing Ashley Judd (fan of Kentucky) getting kissed by Dick Vitale. (A later picture showed Judd returning the favor, so even I had to retract a Twitter jab at Vitale...)
Judd, later, after Kentucky went to 34-0 by beating Arkansas, accused the Razorbacks of playing dirty.
That was nothing compared to the dirty she got in return from your friend and mine, Violent Twitter Troll...
This was one example Ashley said:
She's pressing charges. She's had fucking enough, and I can't blame her.
The day and age has finally come that the only way to shut up Violent Twitter Troll is to arrest or kill Violent Twitter Troll.
Hey, I get it. I tell people I'm going to kick their ass if I ever see them face to face all the time.
The problem is, they've done something to DESERVE that.
Ashley Judd is a beautiful woman. Quite sexy, at least in my opinion.
Sadly, that makes her a target for idiots. And, then, same idiots can claim she deserves it because she wears nothing, cheers for Kentucky, has a pair of combat boots, or eats Cheerios for breakfast.*
(* = There is no claim to the first, third or fourth.)
But it's what we've allowed the public to have in sports on Twitter, and it's past time it became actionable.
The second Twitter story comes on the heels of the unexpected retirement of Chris Borland, with even the title on Yardbarker indicating he's a pussy for not dying on the field.
On top of that, it's becoming clear that the NFL is beginning to close ranks again -- with Adam Schefter, Mike Florio, and an "NFL medical consultant" (har har, try a team QUACK) defending football:
Welcome to your biggest story of the 2015 off-season.
Oh, and after a military veteran called out Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk, Florio did the one thing you should not do -- DOUBLED DOWN...
Story #1 starts on Sunday with an apparently-grimacing Ashley Judd (fan of Kentucky) getting kissed by Dick Vitale. (A later picture showed Judd returning the favor, so even I had to retract a Twitter jab at Vitale...)
Judd, later, after Kentucky went to 34-0 by beating Arkansas, accused the Razorbacks of playing dirty.
That was nothing compared to the dirty she got in return from your friend and mine, Violent Twitter Troll...
This was one example Ashley said:
I am sorry to retweet but this is a typical example. “@Leeroy_MAX: .@AshleyJudd Go suck on Cal’s two inch dick ye Bitch whore.”
— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 15, 2015
She's pressing charges. She's had fucking enough, and I can't blame her.
The day and age has finally come that the only way to shut up Violent Twitter Troll is to arrest or kill Violent Twitter Troll.
Hey, I get it. I tell people I'm going to kick their ass if I ever see them face to face all the time.
The problem is, they've done something to DESERVE that.
Ashley Judd is a beautiful woman. Quite sexy, at least in my opinion.
Sadly, that makes her a target for idiots. And, then, same idiots can claim she deserves it because she wears nothing, cheers for Kentucky, has a pair of combat boots, or eats Cheerios for breakfast.*
(* = There is no claim to the first, third or fourth.)
But it's what we've allowed the public to have in sports on Twitter, and it's past time it became actionable.
The second Twitter story comes on the heels of the unexpected retirement of Chris Borland, with even the title on Yardbarker indicating he's a pussy for not dying on the field.
On top of that, it's becoming clear that the NFL is beginning to close ranks again -- with Adam Schefter, Mike Florio, and an "NFL medical consultant" (har har, try a team QUACK) defending football:
Chris Borland was
scheduled to make $530K this year, plus $10K workout bonus. Not many
jobs pay 24-year-olds $540K for 6 months of work.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 17, 2015
Americans routinely assume far greater physical risks for far less money and fame than the risk/reward of playing in the NFL.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) March 17, 2015
“There are more injuries to
kids from falling off bikes, scooters, falling in playgrounds than there
are in youth football,” [Dr. Joseph] Maroon [an NFL medical consultant] explained, as transcribed by Eric Edholm of Shutdown Corner.
“It’s never been safer. Can we improve? Yes, we have to do better all
the time to make it safer, but I think if a kid is physically able to do
it and wants to do it, our job is to continue to make it safer. But
it’s much more dangerous riding a bike or a skateboard than playing
youth football.”Welcome to your biggest story of the 2015 off-season.
Oh, and after a military veteran called out Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk, Florio did the one thing you should not do -- DOUBLED DOWN...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
And another departee: Rookie LB for the 49ers, done because of his own head injury concerns.
This could become the biggest story of the 2015 off-season.
Yet another player cites head injuries (or at least the concern of them) as his reason for an untimely retirement.
Rookie linebacker Chris Borland is done with football, retiring from the 49ers after one season.
Was actually looking at major playing time in season two.
Outside the Lines reports that Borland took one look at the risks (that most of the worshippers say these players knew), and is out of the game as a result...
(Source for the quote: Deadspin. Hat-tip to one of my few online commenters, who pointed this one out to me.)
Yet another player cites head injuries (or at least the concern of them) as his reason for an untimely retirement.
Rookie linebacker Chris Borland is done with football, retiring from the 49ers after one season.
Was actually looking at major playing time in season two.
Outside the Lines reports that Borland took one look at the risks (that most of the worshippers say these players knew), and is out of the game as a result...
"I feel largely the same, as sharp as I've ever been, for me it's wanting to be proactive," said Borland. "I'm concerned that if you wait till you have symptoms, it's too late. ... There are a lot of unknowns. I can't claim that X will happen. I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise."Football is eventually going to go away unless people are literally forced to play. This is why.
(Source for the quote: Deadspin. Hat-tip to one of my few online commenters, who pointed this one out to me.)
I'm hardcore against match-fixing, but that wasn't Pete's crime. It's Time.
Let Pete Rose in.
Pete Rose, yesterday, submitted a petition for reinstatement for his life ban after the Dowd Report.
Anyone who knows this blog knows how against sports-fixing I am.
But anyone who has evidence that Pete Rose fixed any game (for or against the Reds) would be the first such evidence found. Dowd, and only years later, THINKS Rose might've bet against the Reds.
But nothing was found, even as people knew Pete had bet on the game.
Put whatever other limitations you have to, but he belongs in the Hall.
Let him in.
PS: Maybe if (under strict guidelines to ensure that only certain such bets would be allowed) players bet their own money in support of their own sporting endeavors, some of these players might be arsed to care a little more...
Pete Rose, yesterday, submitted a petition for reinstatement for his life ban after the Dowd Report.
Anyone who knows this blog knows how against sports-fixing I am.
But anyone who has evidence that Pete Rose fixed any game (for or against the Reds) would be the first such evidence found. Dowd, and only years later, THINKS Rose might've bet against the Reds.
But nothing was found, even as people knew Pete had bet on the game.
Put whatever other limitations you have to, but he belongs in the Hall.
Let him in.
PS: Maybe if (under strict guidelines to ensure that only certain such bets would be allowed) players bet their own money in support of their own sporting endeavors, some of these players might be arsed to care a little more...
Monday, March 16, 2015
Several Thoughts On Bracket Monday
First, let's get one thing straight right now.
The NCAA, between it's own existential questions and the fact that Coach Calipari is preparing to take "Succeed and Proceed" to the ultimate level (I'll get to the latter in a moment...), has made a statement: They have probably chosen this tournament as their hill to die on.
They took a UCLA team, a very ordinary and average UCLA team over a Colorado State team which was ranked #29 in real-time RPI.
UCLA? In the FIFTIES.
Why? John Wooden, UCLA's rep, and a major conference.
And unless Colorado State wants to get in a major conference of some kind, they will have to win their one-bid tournament to get in.
By the way, that #29 is the highest-ever RPI denied a trip to the tournament in the 64-68 team era.
Now here's a worse one that shows that college basketball is trending toward the few and monied: Yale.
Yale needed one win last week to get the Ivy League bid to the Dance. They lost to Dartmouth in the last minute to force a playoff game with Harvard.
They lost that too. They ended play on Sunday with an RPI rating of #61.
Guess where Yale is playing their post-season basketball...
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THEY AREN'T!!!
Not the NIT, CBI, or CollegeInsider.com tournaments took them. Yale was 22-10, 10-3 in the Ivy League.
Now, yes, none of the at-larges, but FIFTEEN teams below them made the NCAA tournament.
The CollegeInsider.com tournament took DARTMOUTH, 7-7 in the league, 14-14 overall. That's the only other Ivy League team playing on after Selection Sunday.
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Now, to the 600-pound gorilla in the room: 40-0.
Only seven teams have pulled off the feat of running the table in an NCAA season. UCLA four times, the University of San Francisco (with Bill Russell and KC Jones), North Carolina once (and 25 years before Gaaaaahd...), and the last team to do it was the 1975-76 Indiana team.
(An eighth team ran the table in 1939, Long Island University, and won the NIT tournament -- which, back then, according to the page I found it on Wikipedia, was the more prestigious tournament.)
(Two teams actually ran the table, but were ineligible.)
That 1975-76 Indiana team was the last team before this Kentucky team to go out of a major conference and run the table to the tournament.
The fact is this: You are one of three things if you do not pick Kentucky and their NBA training camp to win it all:
It's so bad that, as I said last year, Kentucky fans actually were saying that the ones destroying college basketball were the players actually staying four years.
If Kentucky wins this national championship, goes 40-0, and becomes the first team in four decades to run the table, the current model of college basketball DIES.
The tournament may survive (even if the NCAA doesn't -- a friend of mine made a very good point that the TV networks themselves (Turner and CBS chief among them in the current model.) might well finance the mess.
The current structure might survive with a few also-rans dropping down.
The fact is this: It will get to the point that if you are an elite-caliber player, you're going to go to Kentucky... or to one of the few other schools which, after this year, will almost-certainly be FORCED to consider "Succeed and Proceed", especially with the recent word from the NBPA president that "One And Done" isn't going away anytime soon.
Keep this last statistic in mind: Calipari is in his sixth season coaching Kentucky. He has three Final Fours, one national title, and NINETEEN NBA draftees, and he has three of the last seven #1 draft picks (and he'd probably have had a fourth if Connecticut hadn't defeated Kentucky in what I saw as a huge upset).
The NCAA, between it's own existential questions and the fact that Coach Calipari is preparing to take "Succeed and Proceed" to the ultimate level (I'll get to the latter in a moment...), has made a statement: They have probably chosen this tournament as their hill to die on.
They took a UCLA team, a very ordinary and average UCLA team over a Colorado State team which was ranked #29 in real-time RPI.
UCLA? In the FIFTIES.
Why? John Wooden, UCLA's rep, and a major conference.
And unless Colorado State wants to get in a major conference of some kind, they will have to win their one-bid tournament to get in.
By the way, that #29 is the highest-ever RPI denied a trip to the tournament in the 64-68 team era.
Now here's a worse one that shows that college basketball is trending toward the few and monied: Yale.
Yale needed one win last week to get the Ivy League bid to the Dance. They lost to Dartmouth in the last minute to force a playoff game with Harvard.
They lost that too. They ended play on Sunday with an RPI rating of #61.
Guess where Yale is playing their post-season basketball...
...
...
THEY AREN'T!!!
Not the NIT, CBI, or CollegeInsider.com tournaments took them. Yale was 22-10, 10-3 in the Ivy League.
Now, yes, none of the at-larges, but FIFTEEN teams below them made the NCAA tournament.
The CollegeInsider.com tournament took DARTMOUTH, 7-7 in the league, 14-14 overall. That's the only other Ivy League team playing on after Selection Sunday.
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Now, to the 600-pound gorilla in the room: 40-0.
Only seven teams have pulled off the feat of running the table in an NCAA season. UCLA four times, the University of San Francisco (with Bill Russell and KC Jones), North Carolina once (and 25 years before Gaaaaahd...), and the last team to do it was the 1975-76 Indiana team.
(An eighth team ran the table in 1939, Long Island University, and won the NIT tournament -- which, back then, according to the page I found it on Wikipedia, was the more prestigious tournament.)
(Two teams actually ran the table, but were ineligible.)
That 1975-76 Indiana team was the last team before this Kentucky team to go out of a major conference and run the table to the tournament.
The fact is this: You are one of three things if you do not pick Kentucky and their NBA training camp to win it all:
- An idiot
- A strategist
- or a conspiracy theorist.
It's so bad that, as I said last year, Kentucky fans actually were saying that the ones destroying college basketball were the players actually staying four years.
If Kentucky wins this national championship, goes 40-0, and becomes the first team in four decades to run the table, the current model of college basketball DIES.
The tournament may survive (even if the NCAA doesn't -- a friend of mine made a very good point that the TV networks themselves (Turner and CBS chief among them in the current model.) might well finance the mess.
The current structure might survive with a few also-rans dropping down.
The fact is this: It will get to the point that if you are an elite-caliber player, you're going to go to Kentucky... or to one of the few other schools which, after this year, will almost-certainly be FORCED to consider "Succeed and Proceed", especially with the recent word from the NBPA president that "One And Done" isn't going away anytime soon.
Keep this last statistic in mind: Calipari is in his sixth season coaching Kentucky. He has three Final Fours, one national title, and NINETEEN NBA draftees, and he has three of the last seven #1 draft picks (and he'd probably have had a fourth if Connecticut hadn't defeated Kentucky in what I saw as a huge upset).
Friday, March 13, 2015
Will Someone PLEASE Tell John Madden To Lighten Up?
So we had another one of those Spring Training moments yesterday.
Will Ferrell (yes, THAT Will Ferrell) participated in a Spring Training stunt in the Cactus League (the teams with their Spring Training in Arizona).
Let's let Baseball-Reference.com chronicle it. Yes, Will Ferrell now has his own page on Baseball-Reference.com.
We've had players play all nine positions in a game. I believe we've even had that in the regular season.
We've had Charley Pride and Garth Brooks (among many others) in the pre-season.
I don't think, though, we've ever had this: Will Ferrell, over the course of a day, played for 10 different MLB Spring Training teams. He played every position on that day, including DH!
He was (I believe multiple times.) on both sides of the same game.
Hell, even MLB Network was in on it, showing some of the highlights with the hashtag #FerrellTakesTheField .
So why does this get mentioned here?
THIS SPOIL SPORT!!!
Yes, John Madden (not the numerous Frank Caliendo spoofs) ripped Ferrell and MLB new assholes on KCBS in San Francisco afterwards for saying the stunt was a travesty.
That got my friend, a large-scale baseball historian, furious! Not only are we still a good three weeks from the start of "real baseball" (hence, numerous non-roster invitees, etc., are still with every team -- not to mention the stunt is one of those that might inject a little fun into Spring Training!), but the entire situation was a charity event to raise awareness and funds for cancer research!
So, Mr. Madden, Just Shut Up...
Will Ferrell (yes, THAT Will Ferrell) participated in a Spring Training stunt in the Cactus League (the teams with their Spring Training in Arizona).
Let's let Baseball-Reference.com chronicle it. Yes, Will Ferrell now has his own page on Baseball-Reference.com.
We've had players play all nine positions in a game. I believe we've even had that in the regular season.
We've had Charley Pride and Garth Brooks (among many others) in the pre-season.
I don't think, though, we've ever had this: Will Ferrell, over the course of a day, played for 10 different MLB Spring Training teams. He played every position on that day, including DH!
He was (I believe multiple times.) on both sides of the same game.
Hell, even MLB Network was in on it, showing some of the highlights with the hashtag #FerrellTakesTheField .
So why does this get mentioned here?
THIS SPOIL SPORT!!!
Yes, John Madden (not the numerous Frank Caliendo spoofs) ripped Ferrell and MLB new assholes on KCBS in San Francisco afterwards for saying the stunt was a travesty.
That got my friend, a large-scale baseball historian, furious! Not only are we still a good three weeks from the start of "real baseball" (hence, numerous non-roster invitees, etc., are still with every team -- not to mention the stunt is one of those that might inject a little fun into Spring Training!), but the entire situation was a charity event to raise awareness and funds for cancer research!
So, Mr. Madden, Just Shut Up...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Could the pieces of meat finally be UNDERSTANDING the truth and running away?
In football, you are no more than a piece of meat, destined to die on it's altar.
But something has happened which, for now, can be dismissed as mere coincidence.
The ominous (for the football-worshippers) thought is creeping up though: That the players, as pieces of meat, are now getting it -- that football is too unsafe for any amount of money and at any speed.
As a result of whatever it is, just this week or 10 days, we've had the retirements of:
But something has happened which, for now, can be dismissed as mere coincidence.
The ominous (for the football-worshippers) thought is creeping up though: That the players, as pieces of meat, are now getting it -- that football is too unsafe for any amount of money and at any speed.
As a result of whatever it is, just this week or 10 days, we've had the retirements of:
- Jake Locker, 26. First round pick in 2011, so only four years in the NFL. No desire to continue playing.
- Jason Worilds, 27. A prime free-agent, one NFL expert said he was walking away from $7-8 million a year.
- Patrick Willis, 30. Top caliber at his position, and got paid for it. That one was health, but a foot injury had slowed Willis down.
- Maurice Jones-Drew, 29.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Coverup is Complete, Another Sports Woman Subjugated
Kurt Busch was REINSTATED today by NASCAR, days after the DA chose to look the other way and ignore that a judge basically stated the woman had, at the very least, satisfied the civil level of requirements (which would seem to satisfy at least that there's enough evidence that the situation should've seen criminal trial!) of "preponderance of the evidence" (only a conviction requires "beyond a reasonable doubt") that Kurt Busch beat the shit out of her.
Oh, that's right. He's white. He's an athlete. And he's got sponsors on his car who are counting on that HE is in the car. Never mind that the guy has a history of being NASCAR's Biggest Fucking Looney Tune. Never mind the guy is probably a threat to anyone around him on the track. Never mind any of this.
The show has to go on, doesn't it?
Oh, that's right. He's white. He's an athlete. And he's got sponsors on his car who are counting on that HE is in the car. Never mind that the guy has a history of being NASCAR's Biggest Fucking Looney Tune. Never mind the guy is probably a threat to anyone around him on the track. Never mind any of this.
The show has to go on, doesn't it?
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
And Oklahoma has to Oklahoma -- and it may have cost their beloved Sooners!!!
I never understood why, in the 21st century, fraternities and sororities were still allowed at any US college.
Yes, I know there are (though it appears more and more rarely!) good things fraternities and sororities do, but they are becoming hotbeds for hazing, getting drunk, and being stupid.
Well, Oklahoma University now not only has one fewer fraternity, it apparently also has one fewer four-star football recruit because of racism.
In a move anyone familiar with the state of Oklahoma cannot be entirely surprised for, a busload of fraternity jackasses from Oklahoma University were on a bus, and several of them shouted racist slurs out the window.
As a result, the fraternity they were all in was immediately expelled from the campus, and the house ordered cleared by midnight tomorrow.
Not enough. Every student on that bus should be expelled summarily, for starters.
However, the damage may only be starting.
The only reason this even makes the blog is that it now appears that an African-American four-star recruit has bolted Oklahoma.
Jean Delance, an offensive tackle, originally cited "personal reasons", but admitted that the video of the racist chant played a large factor in his departure.
Of course, now one has to ask why any African-American athlete would want to don the crimson and white.
Of course, with the idiots in Oklahoma, one might question how many such athletes there are...
EDIT TO ADD 3/10 11:38 AM: The University President has expelled from the school the two students who led the chant. Not enough, but a start...
Yes, I know there are (though it appears more and more rarely!) good things fraternities and sororities do, but they are becoming hotbeds for hazing, getting drunk, and being stupid.
Well, Oklahoma University now not only has one fewer fraternity, it apparently also has one fewer four-star football recruit because of racism.
In a move anyone familiar with the state of Oklahoma cannot be entirely surprised for, a busload of fraternity jackasses from Oklahoma University were on a bus, and several of them shouted racist slurs out the window.
As a result, the fraternity they were all in was immediately expelled from the campus, and the house ordered cleared by midnight tomorrow.
Not enough. Every student on that bus should be expelled summarily, for starters.
However, the damage may only be starting.
The only reason this even makes the blog is that it now appears that an African-American four-star recruit has bolted Oklahoma.
Jean Delance, an offensive tackle, originally cited "personal reasons", but admitted that the video of the racist chant played a large factor in his departure.
Of course, now one has to ask why any African-American athlete would want to don the crimson and white.
Of course, with the idiots in Oklahoma, one might question how many such athletes there are...
EDIT TO ADD 3/10 11:38 AM: The University President has expelled from the school the two students who led the chant. Not enough, but a start...
Monday, March 9, 2015
It's March -- Let the FIGHTING Begin!!
There will be one less NCAA women's basketball team going for the tournament this year. Probably (and should be!) two.
Massive brawl in the SWAC. Southern and Texas Southern had their game halted this weekend when at least fifteen players were suspended after a brawl which involved every player on the floor plus at least two or three from each bench.
It started with one of those classic block-charge situations, but the player who was charged (or committed blocking) got up in the face of the other player, and it was on.
Monday evening, Texas Southern, who was the leaders of the SWAC going into the double-forfeit, dropped out of the tournament and ended their season.
It appears Southern University should as well, especially since this is the second bench-clearing incident Southern has had in less than three weeks. Three players were banned for leaving the bench to join an incident in a game February 21, Yahoo! reported.
Massive brawl in the SWAC. Southern and Texas Southern had their game halted this weekend when at least fifteen players were suspended after a brawl which involved every player on the floor plus at least two or three from each bench.
It started with one of those classic block-charge situations, but the player who was charged (or committed blocking) got up in the face of the other player, and it was on.
Monday evening, Texas Southern, who was the leaders of the SWAC going into the double-forfeit, dropped out of the tournament and ended their season.
It appears Southern University should as well, especially since this is the second bench-clearing incident Southern has had in less than three weeks. Three players were banned for leaving the bench to join an incident in a game February 21, Yahoo! reported.
ANOTHER 49ER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARREST
Anyone want to believe Tim Kawakami yet about a cover-up with the Niners?
For at least the third (if not fourth or fifth) time this season, the 49ers have another domestic violence arrest to worry about.
This one is Bruce Miller, the only fullback on the 49er depth chart.
Spousal battery, the arrest was last week. Few other details available.
Hey, Goodell, why don't we just suspend the 49ers for the first six games of next year?
For at least the third (if not fourth or fifth) time this season, the 49ers have another domestic violence arrest to worry about.
This one is Bruce Miller, the only fullback on the 49er depth chart.
Spousal battery, the arrest was last week. Few other details available.
Hey, Goodell, why don't we just suspend the 49ers for the first six games of next year?
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Update on the European hooligans...
On February 27th, I logged some of the incidents which marred European club tournament play in the recent past.
As an update, here are some of the sanctions involved:
Dynamo Kiev: Field invasion, fireworks, and apparently a security flaw in stairs being blocked.
Sanction: 70,000 euros and the partial closure of the stadium, including the section of the Ultras, for at least the next Euro club match they play at home.
AS Roma: Kickoff was late and a player was cited for inciting the crowd.
Sanction: 10,000 euros for the late kickoff, a warning for the player who incited the crowd.
Feyenoord (Same match as AS Roma): Racist behavior, fireworks, and stairs blocked.
Since Feyenoord is out of the tournament, that will be deferred to mid-March. March 19 will be their day. I'm expecting a closed-door ban here, if not further.
Celtic: Fireworks and excessive yellow cards.
They also get March 19th. I expect a significant fine and perhaps further penalties regarding future participation. This is the NINTH time they have been put in front of FIFA since 2008.
THROW EM OUT.
Two interesting facts further about Celtic: Celtic were put in the Europa League in 2011 after a Swiss team violated a transfer ban. Celtic were also advanced by FIFA in 2014 to the final phase of qualifying for the Champions League after their opponents were tossed for ANOTHER ineligible player.
Bayer Leverkusen: The "illicit banner".
Also March 19th.
Dinamo Moskva: Fireworks in their match.
Also March 19th.
As an update, here are some of the sanctions involved:
Dynamo Kiev: Field invasion, fireworks, and apparently a security flaw in stairs being blocked.
Sanction: 70,000 euros and the partial closure of the stadium, including the section of the Ultras, for at least the next Euro club match they play at home.
AS Roma: Kickoff was late and a player was cited for inciting the crowd.
Sanction: 10,000 euros for the late kickoff, a warning for the player who incited the crowd.
Feyenoord (Same match as AS Roma): Racist behavior, fireworks, and stairs blocked.
Since Feyenoord is out of the tournament, that will be deferred to mid-March. March 19 will be their day. I'm expecting a closed-door ban here, if not further.
Celtic: Fireworks and excessive yellow cards.
They also get March 19th. I expect a significant fine and perhaps further penalties regarding future participation. This is the NINTH time they have been put in front of FIFA since 2008.
THROW EM OUT.
Two interesting facts further about Celtic: Celtic were put in the Europa League in 2011 after a Swiss team violated a transfer ban. Celtic were also advanced by FIFA in 2014 to the final phase of qualifying for the Champions League after their opponents were tossed for ANOTHER ineligible player.
Bayer Leverkusen: The "illicit banner".
Also March 19th.
Dinamo Moskva: Fireworks in their match.
Also March 19th.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Death Threats of Famous Sports People: From A Unique Perspective
This is a story I have seventeen years, exactly, of unique perspective on.
But it's also a story I have a dire prediction on if somebody doesn't get the out-of-control fandom/religious nature of the sports fan in this country and get it under control YESTERDAY!
Today's story comes from Brian Tuohy, in what (to say the least!!) was a very unusual Tweet...
The article not only exposes the death threats against former Packer Brandon Bostick, but also death threats against ESPN employees.
The latter was announced during ESPN's pre-pre-game of the Super Bowl. The threats were in response to the coverage of Ball-ghazi/Deflate-Gate.
The story covers the well-known (Hank Aaron and Joe DiMaggio, the latter believed by the threatener to be responsible for Marilyn Monroe's death) to the lesser-known (Calvin Griffith, the owner of the Twins) to the ridiculous (at least two 1980's threats to Red Auerbach).
Then there's the scary of how close someone might've gotten: A man (clearly believed to have mental problems) got a gun into the 1972 World Series, and threatened to shoot the catcher for the Oakland A's if he hit a home run in Game 6.
Or how about the guy who was believed to want to shoot one of the two coaches of the Dallas/Los Angeles Rams game in Anaheim in 1986. So everyone panics and tries to protect Tom Landry, and no one really goes to help the other coach as well. Landry, by my read of the situation, was seen as the main target because the person in question was seen as an ex-football player gone mad after being cut.
--
We visit this place a number of times on this blog. I speak from some degree of a unique perspective because of things I've previously discussed as being accused of.
So I hope that anyone who ends up reading this will take this prediction rather seriously:
(DISCLAIMER, because I have to... I DO NOT STATE that I will do it myself. Tempting though it might be from time to time, the blog does serve as a catharsis to get stories which might make me angry enough. I also make no secret that I would like to kick the ass of a number of (non-famous) people on the Internet, and have stated as such, and have told them I want to kick their ass. (It's the only way to get some of these oafs to shut up!!)
I believe someone will carry out a death threat in 2015 against a professional or major college athlete in this country and kill them. I believe that fandom (to which the only difference between it and stalking/harassment is the consent of those whom one is a fan of) has gotten so bloody out of hand, especially as it relates to athletic endeavors and the religious-like nature of the worship we give our athletes from grade school on up, that someone will carry out one of these threats.
Yes, I'm saying some Twitter idiot or such is going to kill a major athlete in 2015, for not scoring enough, for "costing the team the championship" (like Brandon Bostick of the Packers), for even not performing enough on one certain day!! (Blame these one-day fantasy sports tournaments for that kind of a debacle!), etc.
I believe we are passing, rapidly, the point where it's just sad to see a lot of this go down. I now believe people have invested so much IN THE LIE WHICH IS CORPORATE SPORTS that someone, stupid enough to believe it's not a lie, will carry out the threats we've only seen on Twitter, etc.
I mean, SERIOUSLY, Packer Fan: You honestly believe that Brandon Bostick, and ONLY Brandon Bostick, prevented your Packers from winning the title.
RAY CHARLES COULD'VE SEEN THAT WHOLE SCRIPTING.
God help these athletes. Really...
But it's also a story I have a dire prediction on if somebody doesn't get the out-of-control fandom/religious nature of the sports fan in this country and get it under control YESTERDAY!
Today's story comes from Brian Tuohy, in what (to say the least!!) was a very unusual Tweet...
Read this or I'll kill you: https://t.co/lff2DVyP98 Death threats - the most extreme form of bullying @VICESports
— Brian Tuohy (@TheFixIsInTuohy) March 4, 2015
The link to this article is in the Tweet. It's his latest effort for VICE Sports, where he landed after his last gig ended on Sports on Earth.The article not only exposes the death threats against former Packer Brandon Bostick, but also death threats against ESPN employees.
The latter was announced during ESPN's pre-pre-game of the Super Bowl. The threats were in response to the coverage of Ball-ghazi/Deflate-Gate.
The story covers the well-known (Hank Aaron and Joe DiMaggio, the latter believed by the threatener to be responsible for Marilyn Monroe's death) to the lesser-known (Calvin Griffith, the owner of the Twins) to the ridiculous (at least two 1980's threats to Red Auerbach).
Then there's the scary of how close someone might've gotten: A man (clearly believed to have mental problems) got a gun into the 1972 World Series, and threatened to shoot the catcher for the Oakland A's if he hit a home run in Game 6.
Or how about the guy who was believed to want to shoot one of the two coaches of the Dallas/Los Angeles Rams game in Anaheim in 1986. So everyone panics and tries to protect Tom Landry, and no one really goes to help the other coach as well. Landry, by my read of the situation, was seen as the main target because the person in question was seen as an ex-football player gone mad after being cut.
--
We visit this place a number of times on this blog. I speak from some degree of a unique perspective because of things I've previously discussed as being accused of.
So I hope that anyone who ends up reading this will take this prediction rather seriously:
(DISCLAIMER, because I have to... I DO NOT STATE that I will do it myself. Tempting though it might be from time to time, the blog does serve as a catharsis to get stories which might make me angry enough. I also make no secret that I would like to kick the ass of a number of (non-famous) people on the Internet, and have stated as such, and have told them I want to kick their ass. (It's the only way to get some of these oafs to shut up!!)
I believe someone will carry out a death threat in 2015 against a professional or major college athlete in this country and kill them. I believe that fandom (to which the only difference between it and stalking/harassment is the consent of those whom one is a fan of) has gotten so bloody out of hand, especially as it relates to athletic endeavors and the religious-like nature of the worship we give our athletes from grade school on up, that someone will carry out one of these threats.
Yes, I'm saying some Twitter idiot or such is going to kill a major athlete in 2015, for not scoring enough, for "costing the team the championship" (like Brandon Bostick of the Packers), for even not performing enough on one certain day!! (Blame these one-day fantasy sports tournaments for that kind of a debacle!), etc.
I believe we are passing, rapidly, the point where it's just sad to see a lot of this go down. I now believe people have invested so much IN THE LIE WHICH IS CORPORATE SPORTS that someone, stupid enough to believe it's not a lie, will carry out the threats we've only seen on Twitter, etc.
I mean, SERIOUSLY, Packer Fan: You honestly believe that Brandon Bostick, and ONLY Brandon Bostick, prevented your Packers from winning the title.
RAY CHARLES COULD'VE SEEN THAT WHOLE SCRIPTING.
God help these athletes. Really...
Curt Schilling Is Still A Creationist Asshole, BUT...
Take this in the "Credit Where It's Due, Grinding of Teeth Aside" column.
Curt Schilling is no friend to any open thinkers out there, as has well been documented.
Fuck with his family on Twitter, on the other hand, and I will be the first to congratulate Mr. Schilling for fucking your ass, your career, and your life up.
It all started with a perfectly acceptable congratulatory tweet to his daughter for making the softball team...
Well, let's just say Daddy Schilling didn't take too kindly to that...
He did some research, and outed several of the accounts.
One of them, The Sports Guru, was found to be as such:
And another?
Personally, I think if we had any kind of student conduct left, they just wouldn't allow students full access to the Internet anymore.
They actually found one of them was a part-time seller of tickets for the Yankees. "Hollywood" WAS a part-timer seller. WAS. He was fired for these tweets.
The other guy apparently is facing school disciplinary actions beyond suspension, as he's already been suspended.
To wit I say: Good. About time we start getting some control of this bullshit.
I am no Curt Schilling fan. He's an asshole.
But sometimes you need to be an asshole. Especially true when we are dealing with idiots on the Internet.
Why? I point to a recent Kotaku article I picked up on which shows the extremes these trolls will go if left unchecked.
The article centers on a 16 year-old who basically specializes in the disruption of other people's lives by using the Internet and other mechanisms to discern the identity of certain parties thereon so he can eventually call the police to alert them to a (false) mass-murder, etc. situation so they will send the SWAT team at the target.
The almost-certain eventual goal? Their death, live on the Internet, in a hail of police gunfire.
I want you to read this shithead. I really want you to read the methodology and mindset of some of the people who populate this once-decent communication form and tell me that some of these motherfuckers shouldn't be locked up or shot outright!!!
I'm not even going to dignify this sub-human drivel by even posting it. You can see it on the article itself.
But if you don't think that I wouldn't endorse Curt Schilling going to "Hollywood"'s (new) home and kicking his face in, just read what goes on with some of these motherfuckers on the Net.
Curt Schilling is no friend to any open thinkers out there, as has well been documented.
Fuck with his family on Twitter, on the other hand, and I will be the first to congratulate Mr. Schilling for fucking your ass, your career, and your life up.
It all started with a perfectly acceptable congratulatory tweet to his daughter for making the softball team...
Congrats to Gabby Schilling who will pitch for the Salve Regina Seahawks next year!!
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 25, 2015
Then, all Hell breaks loose, as the Internet Troll Community gets a hold of that, and does the utterly predictable. An image taken from the Deadspin report...
Well, let's just say Daddy Schilling didn't take too kindly to that...
He did some research, and outed several of the accounts.
One of them, The Sports Guru, was found to be as such:
"The Sports Guru"? Ya he's a DJ named Adam Nagel (DJ is a bit strong since he's on the air for 1 hour a week) on Brookdale Student Radio at Brookdale Community College. How do you think that place feels about this stud representing their school? You don't think this isn't going to be a nice compilation that will show up every single time this idiot is googled the rest of his life? What happens when a potential woman he's after googles and reads this?"
And another?
"The other clown? He's VP of the Theta Xi fraternity at Montclair State University. I gotta believe if Theta Xi is cool with a VP of one of their chapters acting like this I'd prefer to have no one I know in it. Also, does anyone attending Montclair State University have a student handbook? If so can you pass it along because I am pretty sure there are about 90 violations in this idiots tweets."
Personally, I think if we had any kind of student conduct left, they just wouldn't allow students full access to the Internet anymore.
They actually found one of them was a part-time seller of tickets for the Yankees. "Hollywood" WAS a part-timer seller. WAS. He was fired for these tweets.
The other guy apparently is facing school disciplinary actions beyond suspension, as he's already been suspended.
To wit I say: Good. About time we start getting some control of this bullshit.
I am no Curt Schilling fan. He's an asshole.
But sometimes you need to be an asshole. Especially true when we are dealing with idiots on the Internet.
Why? I point to a recent Kotaku article I picked up on which shows the extremes these trolls will go if left unchecked.
The article centers on a 16 year-old who basically specializes in the disruption of other people's lives by using the Internet and other mechanisms to discern the identity of certain parties thereon so he can eventually call the police to alert them to a (false) mass-murder, etc. situation so they will send the SWAT team at the target.
The almost-certain eventual goal? Their death, live on the Internet, in a hail of police gunfire.
I want you to read this shithead. I really want you to read the methodology and mindset of some of the people who populate this once-decent communication form and tell me that some of these motherfuckers shouldn't be locked up or shot outright!!!
I'm not even going to dignify this sub-human drivel by even posting it. You can see it on the article itself.
But if you don't think that I wouldn't endorse Curt Schilling going to "Hollywood"'s (new) home and kicking his face in, just read what goes on with some of these motherfuckers on the Net.
Bigots in Baseball, and why they should NOT be encouraged.
Someone else opened up their big fat trap and should have it shut.
Daniel Murphy came out as a bigot yesterday, when the Mets took thefirst (EDIT: believed-second, Glenn Burke came out in the early 1980's) MLB player to come out as gay (Billy Bean -- NOT the A's GM Billy Beane, but played six years in the majors in 1989-1995, but left the game because he no longer felt like hiding his sexuality anymore. Bean is now the MLB Ambassador for Inclusion.) and placed him in uniform with the team for a spring training day so he could tell his story to the Mets, Deadspin reported.
Mr. Blinded By The Light, consider this before the season starts...
"Maybe, as a Christian, that we haven't been as articulate enough in describing what our actual stance is on homosexuality," he said. "We love the people. We disagree the lifestyle. That's the way I would describe it for me."
No. In fact, this should be suspendable.
Why?
Because we don't want to encourage the animals of this nation.
Like a lawyer in Orange County, a Matt McLaughlin, who better shut the fuck up if people I've seen reading this story have anything to say about this.
He wants sodomy punishable by death by initiative in the state of California.
No joke. This ASSHOLE wants to put up a state ballot initiative making all such conduct a death-penalty offense.
And, Commissioner Manfred, how would Bible-thumping idiots get any degree of encouragement from that?
Comments like Mr. Murphy's...
Inclusion or no? If you profess inclusion, please shut Mr. Murphy up.
Daniel Murphy came out as a bigot yesterday, when the Mets took the
Mr. Blinded By The Light, consider this before the season starts...
"Maybe, as a Christian, that we haven't been as articulate enough in describing what our actual stance is on homosexuality," he said. "We love the people. We disagree the lifestyle. That's the way I would describe it for me."
No. In fact, this should be suspendable.
Why?
Because we don't want to encourage the animals of this nation.
Like a lawyer in Orange County, a Matt McLaughlin, who better shut the fuck up if people I've seen reading this story have anything to say about this.
He wants sodomy punishable by death by initiative in the state of California.
No joke. This ASSHOLE wants to put up a state ballot initiative making all such conduct a death-penalty offense.
And, Commissioner Manfred, how would Bible-thumping idiots get any degree of encouragement from that?
Comments like Mr. Murphy's...
Inclusion or no? If you profess inclusion, please shut Mr. Murphy up.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Tiger Woods: Quit The Bullshit, People
Well, Tiger's back in the news again.
And it isn't good.
And someone needs to put an end to this rumor-mongering.
Why?
We have some nothing journeyman golfer, a Dan Olsen, telling a Michigan radio station that it's his opinion that Tiger Woods has been suspended by the PGA Tour for PEDs.
Now, do I believe -- as an OPINION -- that Tiger Woods used steroids when he was remotely credible and relevant? Yes. I do believe Olsen when he said this to the radio station: "I think when it's all said and done, he's gonna surpass Lance Armstrong with infamy."
Do I believe the PGA Tour would cover that up? You bet.
Do I believe he's doing it now? Only if that's the only way he has a functioning body.
Tiger Woods is so bad right now, especially within 50 yards, he has no business at a PGA event, even with a ticket!
So spare me the PED nonsense as far as now is concerned.
And the Tiger-jockers, to make a point, have started in the comments section -- one Steve Broome doing similar on the ESPN article, calling Olsen a pedophile.
Somebody wants their ass kicked HARD.
And it isn't good.
And someone needs to put an end to this rumor-mongering.
Why?
We have some nothing journeyman golfer, a Dan Olsen, telling a Michigan radio station that it's his opinion that Tiger Woods has been suspended by the PGA Tour for PEDs.
Now, do I believe -- as an OPINION -- that Tiger Woods used steroids when he was remotely credible and relevant? Yes. I do believe Olsen when he said this to the radio station: "I think when it's all said and done, he's gonna surpass Lance Armstrong with infamy."
Do I believe the PGA Tour would cover that up? You bet.
Do I believe he's doing it now? Only if that's the only way he has a functioning body.
Tiger Woods is so bad right now, especially within 50 yards, he has no business at a PGA event, even with a ticket!
So spare me the PED nonsense as far as now is concerned.
And the Tiger-jockers, to make a point, have started in the comments section -- one Steve Broome doing similar on the ESPN article, calling Olsen a pedophile.
Somebody wants their ass kicked HARD.
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