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Sports Illustrated reported yesterday on its website that Alex Rodriguez failed an “anonymous” steroid’s test in 2003; the results are no longer anonymous thanks to a federal search warrant.
This is very bad news for A-Rod and his fans (a group I used to count myself in, but I don’t think about A-Rod much any more).
What do you think…. will this mark the end of his super-stardom?
>>super-stardom?
Ha!
20 years from now – A-Rod will be remembered by a few baseball fans
40 years from now – A-Rod will be in a few historical notes about American Baseball
200 years from now – A Rod might be in the index of a comprehensive reference-book about “American Mid-Empire Sports and Their Influences”
A-Rod has contributed nothing to civilization, progress or decency – and will soon be forgotten like the rest of us.
Have children and raise them properly – that’s the best chance you have at earthly stardom or immortality… swinging a wood stick at a ball is a child’s game and history will note it as such.
Ha… and you probably say the same thing about Alvin Davis!
Seriously Ben, did you get bitch slapped by a mean school yard athlete? Is that why all the hostility toward sports?
I played plenty of team sports – We pretty damn good at football due to my reflexes, but lacked the desire to continue once I figured that I could.
In fifth grade, I went bat s#it insane on a kid who didn’t want to pay back the $.35 I loaned him – that sort of craziness provided me with a rather impenetrable shield against bitch-slapping. That and six years of karate. Looking back, the only social regret I had in school was that I helped heap verbal abuse on some of the more awkward people in class up until 8th grade when I wised up and was a friend to just about everybody regardless of their social standing.
Watching the abuse of children on children at school gave me a distrust of the “morals of crowds.”….
Where were we… OH…
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Sports VS More Noble Endevours – Like NASA, Exploring the World, etc is kinda of like comparing Oprah to Sun Tsu’s Art of War. While Oprah is popular NOW, nobody will care in fifty years.
I do like going to a sport even now and then for the people watching and for the spectacle – but I enjoy pissing on people base hobbies and being a kill-joy even more 😉
Sports VS More Noble Endeavors? Come on man, you can not seriously believe it is all one or the other? Of course athletes and those who enjoy watching can accomplish both!
I agree on principal… but our priorities are WAYYYYYY out of whack:
We’re spend about the same amount of money on *JUST* home DVD’s that we do on Space Exploration, about $18 billion per year.
When you factor in sports, movies, cable, music and gambling – we spend more than sixteen times more on entertainment than we do exploring the universe.
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http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html
http://www.about-electronics.eu/2009/01/19/2008-home-entertainment-spending-down-57-in-us/
I’m with you, Ben. A-Rod screwed up his marriage too. He’s no hero.
It doesn’t seem to matter what if any sports are out there, the steroids are killing what people are truly capable of doing on their own natural/god given talents. I can’t stand most sports, especially the ones where violence tends to overshadow the actual sport. The pay is obscene for some of these idiots. The problem is too much leniency when these knuckleheads get caught. No one caught using steroids should ever be allowed back into any sport for competition sake, period. Our children can’t see through these problems and can only see how much money there is to be made. Terrible examples of a real human being. And then there’s the perversion of living vicariously through others by sitting on your couch like a slob, eating 1000’s of shitty calories, when you should get off your blubber. American are far too gluttonous.
Hey now, remember Steve Largent?
Not all sports celebrats are asshats.
-H
How does that saying go “One bad apple ruins the whole bunch”. Sadly there is more then one bad apple out there.
Dave
For every A-Roid or Barry Bonds, there are 10X the type of folks like; Shaun Alexander, Jamie Moyer, Tim Tebow, Steve Largent, Peyton Manning, who do things the right way, and contribute to society by the way they play the game, contribute off the field. Focus on the postives (like you should on most things) and do not take the bait of the national media to see sports as so negative.
A-Fraud
My point was children can’t wade through this. Largent may be stand up guy, but children are unable to make the differentiation between him and A-Fraud. Heck, A-Fraud makes a hell of a lot more money so chances are he is held in higher esteem. The pursuit of money is what makes most of us tick, but when our children are brought up with money first they are unable to see what a rational thinking, life experienced adult can see. Abuse of our children is not just the standard of showing them violence in the home, how to drink and smoke, lie/cheat/steal, it is also the lack of ethics and morals taught to them.
Re: A-Fraud
Lesson to teach children: Someone who will lie in business, or in a tv interview, will lie to a spouse, will simply lie. Don’t trust someone who has lied. A-Rod lies.
Re: A-Fraud
Bravo, so let’s extend this way of thinking to Obama and the new majority. Classic huckster he is. His lips are moving but I don’t trust a word he says. Did you listen to him tonight? Case in point.
Why is this important
There aren’t enough engineers or scientists to replace the ones who will be retiring. Our schools are making our kid stupid. Meanwhile, China and India are pumping out PH.D.s’ like Big Mac’s.
So why is this important?
Re: Why is this important
You’re right on the money. Obama’s socialist plan will fail terribly and throw the country into a tailspin, the depression his is trying to avoid as he puts it. The sudden void in ability for this country to produce will thrust countries like India and China into the driver’s seat on many fronts. Our country will be ripe for the picking economically and potentially for a physical take over.
What people don’t realize is the last great depression was the last one because free market was allowed to work it’s way through “downturns”. We have seen many opportunities for great depression before it and after, yet none have gone to “great” because some social engineer didn’t screw with it.
I call bullshit
“Obama’s socialist plan”
Try looking at the stimulus bill before you choke there ,and spew out the same Repub talking points. Its online for you all to see.
There is a lot of money in stimulus bill for our schools in America. Public, Private, and Higher ED. Unfortunately there was A LOT MORE ,but it was cut in half to get the Republicans to vote for it. I guess Education is not a top priority for The Republican Party.
Its my email I can forward it to you I have the 608 pg one or the summary or you can do google search I got the full bill off huffington post. Of course it has been changed since I got my copy. cnn has a list of all the cuts made from the bill since its been in the senate. Once it goes through it will be on recovery.gov as well on whitehouse.gov is how it will be split amoung states. I’m on my phone currently sending this once I get home at 2 I can attach the link to the bill and cuts if you haven’t found it.i will agree on one thing I do think Nancy put some junk in the bill but since then it has been cut.which is good.
Don’t you see the rub…. once it’s been passed we’ll get to see it?!?!? All bills eventually make their way to the Federal Register – but by then it’s months too late!
This is no way to run a government! A citizen shouldn’t have to wade through HuffPo, CNN, and Drudge to piece together what five different sides THINK the bill is…
I’ve looked, and there’s no place where you can find the current bill from the conference committee.
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I’m not saying that when bush and the republicans had the congress things were better…. but I don’t remember Bush promising to open up government either.
This is NOT a good start, this is business as usual.
Its all over online
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HR1.pdf
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/index.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/state_by_state_employment_impact/
You said “its not ONLINE for us all to see” . Thinking they must be hiding stuff. Stop it! This isnt Bush in charge anymore- now we get to see what the hell is going on. It is not behind closed doors.
Re: Its all over online
Your HuffPo link is a copy of the bill from January 23, 2009 (10:48 p.m.)
The CNN link is not a copy of the bill
At the two whitehouse.gov links there is no copy of the bill.
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The full bill is NOT online. I’ll cook you and your family a *VERY* nice dinner – vegetarian if you’d like – if you can find a current copy of the bill from the conference committee before 1:30pm today.
Re: Its all over online
Jeez Ben, can’t you see that if it’s in print then it must be true? If I close my eyes I can see Crystal stomping her feet because you are questioning her and all she has to come back is “look at the progaganda for yourself”. The past is history Crystal, leave Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan/Carter/etc out of it. The current situation is laughable and all you can do is chide the Repubs for not allowing the package to be for more money? Where do you think this green paper grows from? The current is the nitwit in charge telling us to conserve yet he flies over hill and dale to go out to dinner with his wife and then fly somewhere else to sign a bill. Have you any idea how much of our tax money is wasted on this when he could apply it to schools himself? Talk about leading by example.