Day 593 Part One: I don't usually do this, but sometimes I get a gem which requires my full and complete attention...

I'm going to put my post about the Dodgers here.  If you have not read this yet, please do so so you have the context for what I'm going to post about here a second.  Unfortunately, not only my daily posts, but at least, as of this one, about three good candidates for Featured Post (of which only one can at a time) have come up in 36 hours are going to roll this from the front page.

I don't normally do this.  He'll probably think I'm giving him attention.  But I THINK I got one of the Golden Road (The Price is Right fans) or Botball guys over here -- he doesn't have the guts to give his even screen-name, because he would expose himself as an idiot.  (And not in the way you may believe I am saying.)

I've got two Golden Road candidates:  I got muted for a week from their Discord (I've been banned from their forums for the better part of Drew Carey's reign on the show after the "Perfect Bid" fiasco!!!) for "inconsequential rants such as sports", according to the person who did it.  It's either the admin (I doubt it.  He at least appears cogent.)  or the guy I responded to who seems to defend Houston's cheating, or at least makes assertion it is now impossible to even participate in a professional sport without cheating at it.

 

It's either that or it's Botball.  Hell, it could be a guy who actually is in both.  He makes references to both.  I'm vascillating as to which this could be.

And I'm not going to even say that in a manner of his message.   Check out the unedited (I swear to you -- I took one look at this and approved the comment as a function of how much of an idiot this guy is.  This is simply a cut and paste!) comment I got from "Unknown" -- I produce this as another example that Drew Carey was right on one thing...  Some online fans (whether of The Price is Right or, if it's Botball, then apply it to more general sports fans) are nothing short of NAKED TELEPHONE POLE SCREAMERS:

"you know, i've spent time every so often checking over here since you got banned for being an absolute asshole just to see if, now free of the shackles of being allowed within the realms of other people, you would tone up the tinfoil to Q levels of delusion. Seeing the complete meltdown I knew was coming the moment the Dodgers lost, I'm not disappointed. The Dodgers lost, fair and square. A combination or injuries, momentum, and sometimes human error in the realm of umpiring is what caused it. Not a royal screwjob the likes of which we haven't seen in sport virtually ever. You realize a collusion of this magnitude you claim to be occurring in front of our very eyes would've been found out almost instantly? The amount of people needed to make all your claims real is too much to be logically hidden. You say "Life isn't fair," yet completely refuse to acknowledge that sometimes shit happens. The Braves played out of their minds when it mattered, the Astros got momentum back in time. Bad umpiring calls in Game 5 aside the Red Sox weren't winning. Simple. Dodgers and Braves could've gone either way. That's the magic of baseball is we don't know what happens next. But here you are, saying the same thing over and over about how "Manfred hates liberals, Manfred hates LA, etc." Manfred sure has his faults don't get me wrong, but to suggest he despises one of the main teams behind the ratings this postseason which have raised many hopes throughout of a resurgence of baseball is absolute shit. If he WAS rigging every game because whatever actual logical reason you still have yet to give, why wouldn't it have been a rematch between either LA and Houston or LA and Boston, both of which are major markets with highly popular players throughout. Even then Atlanta has one of the hottest stars who albeit hurt, is still a future MVP. I feel more and more you don't actually care about the sports themselves, that you're stuck in this idea everything's a fantasy and that nothing is truly what we see with our eyes because of the hands behind the scenes. We're not in the Matrix, we're not being deceived, you just hold the belief we are. You say all these words yet say so little. Your message seemingly after every blog post is "Everything is rigged, fuck you if you don't believe me," tossed with a few croutons and some chopped bacon to make a nice Chickenshit Salad. Just stop. You're 52, just go take your mind off sports and go take a vacation. I hear Dear Evan Hansen is still going on at Broadway in NYC. You act all innocent about victim blaming Andy Reid for his son's overdose and how the NFL is getting revenge on him because he's such a shitty person, but we're too busy slobbering on him to care, yet fail to realize why we kicked you. Fuck you. Actually fuck you. You think the death of his son doesn't eat at him every single day? He doesn't wish he could go back and try to save him? I wish you would say that to his face. I would relish in reading the headline about you getting your ass beat. You're actually pathetic, and to say it's his fault for his son's problems and how he doesn't hold anyone accountable and how Kansas City is being screwed over because of it is actually one of the most despicable things I've ever heard. Yes Britt fucked up, but he owned up to it and apologized. What he did was truly terrible but at least he is doing his best at making amends. There's a reason we renamed your favorite emote to "asshole" and it's because you are one. You complain about getting banned from some game show website, Botball, all these places, because you're "being silenced" or your truths aren't willing to be heard. Here's a truth: look in the mirror and you'll see the real reason. Go watch your damn Broadway play and get arrested again. I'm sick of you and your shit."

Let me throw things out of order so I can address them effectively:

That I state I'm being banned is simply a statement of fact.  It's as true as the sun rising in the East and water being wet.  I'm not being silenced -- you just don't wanna hear my shit.

(And why I'm not sure if it's Botball or Golden Road:  He makes reference of me being banned from a game-show forum.  I'm not sure I ever mentioned that here or on Botball...  Not really shook up about it, it just makes me curious.  And, as far as "tinfoil" becoming "asshole" -- you haven't started to get close on that regard, boy.  "Asshole" wouldn't cover it, and definitely not in your mind!)

Since you make reference to it, let me be very clear:  It took a full-scale NYPD All Points Bulletin to get me "shut up" for about a year, between the jail time itself and a few weeks/months afterward.  If I need to be "shut up" as badly as you think I do, it's going to take one thing and one alone:  A bullet to my skull.  And they should've done it that night too, under the assumptive hypothesis of what I was about to do.

I will fully cop to that "my truths are not willing to be heard" because (and I think this also answers your "if a conspiracy like this were that grandiose, everyone would see it" falsehood!) I think most sports fans are RANK IDIOTS, and you HAVE TO BE to continue to be so (or, on an increasing nature, fans of ANYTHING) these days.  I think the thing which disgusts me about the right-wing anti-"Woke" movement is, more, what we are supposed to not wake up and realize, on well too many fronts (rape and sexual assault as relevance-currencies, TERFs like that asshole Chappelle, etc. etc. etc.) to address here.  But, since you've dabbled in this blog, you've probably seen numerous entries on various manifestations of this.

That said, as long as I still breathe, I can still speak.  You may wish to see both rectified in the near future if you are that sick of my shit.

OK:  Now back to the Dodger comments before I get to the main event:

The main reason I made such a point to make what I termed to several readers of the blog as a "Thermonuke Post" about this subject was that this was a far more sophisticated construction than simply manipulating the umpiring.  If there is one thing which the COVID-laced (and MLB and the like will try to put the asterisk on it, you watch!) 2020 World Championship showed, it was that "Oh shit!" look Manfred had -- and it appears another manifestation of that "Oh shit!" was that he realized that, unlike a good four or so Dodger playoff runs, he was no longer simply going to be able to eliminate the Dodgers with the simple umpiring.

He was going to have to do it in a much more comprehensive manner (including teams taking deliberate dives throughout the season, teams actually dropping the facade of competition and openly cheering on opponents of the Dodgers, and even a deliberate take-out of a major offensive cog on the team in Game 162 -- I produced the video, so you can try to tell me Jace Peterson didn't Intent To Injure Max Muncy!) this year and he finally got it.

And I'm no longer sure (I started thinking of this during when I wrote that post) if the worst part of this isn't the fact that pushing matters to the extent they have has not resulted in a Hall of Famer sustaining a career-ending injury, as well as possible career-shortening injuries to several other players on the team!

And don't get me wrong!  Under most circumstances, there'd already be cause to do a more normal screwjob -- you address something like that later, and, oh boy, am I going to have something to say about that when I get to that!!!  The Trevor Bauer situation (which fucked the pitching good and proper, even with the Scherzer acquisition) would've been enough!

But there's another dimension to that which you miss:  It's not just that they don't want "superteams" west of about Houston or St. Louis - and that I think Rob Manfred would openly gladly take Baseball back to the regional and White sport it was before the Second World War.  

If you haven't cared to notice, the owners are in illegal collusion to dump and hold down player salaries.  When a team like the Dodgers is more than willing to spend and pay the luxury tax to put a championship team on the field, that's offensive to the likes of FUCK ROB MANFRED.  

Doubly so when he's clearly going to orchestrate a LONG work stoppage to try to tip the scales further in favor of the owners.  He HATES Baseball.  He hates it's traditions (at least WWII and afterward), and probably would be a Commissioner more of the nature of Kennesaw Mountin Landis if he could get away with it.

This wasn't a simple act on the field -- this was a very organized and sophisticated plan.  And the necessity for that (in the eyes of FUCK ROB MANFRED) was demonstrated in how much it took for that plan to succeed.

So let me see if there's any other of the verbal flatulence of his post before I get to the main event...

As far as the "bad umpiring calls doing nothing", you probably also believed the Kings had a chance in Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals.  Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

You would be right about the ratings (and, yes, the Dodgers have been one of the main ratings draws in both levels of series in these playoffs, and I would not be surprised at all if the nation largely tunes out of the World Series!) if you didn't understand what I said above:  

Rob.  Manfred.  HATES.  Baseball.

He does not care of the growth of the game.  He cares nothing more than the lining of the pockets of him and his, and the TV deals for the 30 franchises will do that more than nicely!  And one of the OTHER reasons he's going to scream for a hard cap again is that player-salary money is probably coming from those TV deals!

You would probably be right about LA winning the NLCS if he gave a damn about the ratings or felt he could adequately control the World Series to "redeem" the cheating fucks.  He doesn't, and he didn't believe he could control it either.

So how many leggy babes does "Dear Evan Hansen" have in their show?  (to tie two side comments together...)

OK, main event time.  Andy and Britt Reid:

Andy Reid is a fucking monster.  He is soulless and he has sold his entire being to the NFL and the American Religion of Football.

To answer your question:  No.  I do not believe for ONE ABJECT SECOND that Andy Reid gives one tinker's damn about the suicide of his first son.  In fact, I would find it more likely that he saw said son as weak and unfit and basically "put him on waivers", to coin from a sports term.

This son of a bitch is unfit to be a leader of men, in any real capacity.  There have, several times, been the inklings of something very special in Kansas City.

Then Tyreek Hill happened -- that cost one run.

And then Britt Reid happened -- attempted DUI vehicular murder on the week of the Super Bowl.  That might've cost the rest, even when the NFL was literally going to make his team The Team and his quarterback The Next Man in this league!

If Britt's father Andy were any degree of a real FATHER, much less a real leader of ANYTHING, he wouldn't have stood for any of this -- even within the context of football!

No, I don't think he sweats the death of his first son at all!  I don't think he'd try to save him at all!!!  There is no room for that level of "weakness" in his world of the NFL!  If there were, THAT SON MIGHT STILL BE ALIVE!

And that four-year old girl Britt almost killed (now five?) might be fully capable and probably not having to struggle for her life for the rest of her days because some jackass decided to drive drunk!

Give me the offer to say it to his face. One of us does not survive it, because I'd like a few swings at that fucker myself!  I'd kill the son of a bitch (and, for reference, I never said that about Ms. Gibson) if I were to get my hands around his neck.  Who he is and what he represents is so evil and has done so much damage in this "Sports Over Everything" culture, I don't think you realize what he's done to people around me.

So, if you can process full sentences and actual English, son, read that and respond to that, if you have the balls to do so.

Because as bad and as mentally-deficient as you believe I might be, boy...  In your frame of reference, I'm miles worse.