We've got Controversy
I love sports controversies, they always get blown way out of proportion and they have the lifespan of the average fruit fly. We have been without a controversy for about 2 weeks, but just this week a few things have emerged.
Jersey Gate 2005
The great and talented and super team, Boston Red Sox, had their official World Series banner unveiling and ring ceremony yesterday. We will not dive into the ultra classy New York Yankees or the great Sawx fans or Boston sports legends Bill Russell, Bobby Orr, Johnny Pesky and Carl Yastremski, no instead we are forced to talk about Derek Lowe and Dave Roberts and their wardrobe. They both decided to don their World Series winning Red Sox home white uniform tops. Apparently John Kruk, Harold Reynolds and others seem to see this as some type of problem. This is the whole “baseball purist” bullshit that I absolutely hate. People get with the fucking times, it is 2005, most of these guys play for about 8 teams before they retire. Dave Roberts himself is on his fourth team in seven seasons and Lowe is on his third team in nine seasons. To me wearing the Jersey is no big deal. It is not disrespecting your current team; hell Lowe probably still doesn’t know the name of his backup second baseman on the Dodgers. The “purists” need to get over this. Times have changed; guys go from team to team every year. They have no loyalty, just as much as the clubs have no loyalty to them. It goes along with the “no fraternization” rule that old school baseball idiots subscribe to. These guys change teammates on a monthly basis, who gives fuck what jersey they were for their ring ceremony. As long as Lowe pitches his ass off every fifth day, that is all that matters. When guys get between the white lines they play their butts off for the team they are on, that is what counts.
T.O.
Every few months this guy becomes more and more of a horse’s ass. Some part of me really wants to like this guy because he performs, all the time, in big games and when he is hurt. He stepped up and played his butt off in the super bowl, but since then he has been acting a fool. He signed a huge deal with the Eagles and is the second highest paid receiver in the league and now wants to renegotiate. He got rid of his old agent and hired Drew Rosenhaus with the specific intent of trying to hold out and bleed the Eagles for more money. Hey jerk off your contract is fine, if you set some records over the next two years or actually win the whole thing for the Eagles then go ahead and try to restructure, but after one season, no dice pal. Then he decides he needs to air his side of the story and takes a huge shot at his team’s best player, fan favorite, and team leader. He was quoted as saying, “I wasn’t the one who got tired during the Super Bowl.” That is a low blow. He is trying to isolate himself from his teammates, for what reason I have no idea. Then he also said that his new agent and renegotiating his contract has nothing to do with monetary value. Here is a standing rule: When the say it’s not about the money, it is always about the money. He was also quoted as saying, “It's getting, in some ways, like it was for me in San Francisco.” He was of course talking about the media scrutinizing him at every turn. Well TO if the San Francisco people got on you, and now you moved to another team and their media and fans are getting on you, then maybe the problem is…….well………….uuhhhhh…………….YOU? Have you ever once considered that? This guy is just an idiot, plain and simple.
Racism in the NBA
Jermaine O’neal did not exactly say it correctly, but he is very close to being right. The policy hints at an underlying bigotry that exists with this policy. Yes I understand the way some black leaders look at the situation; they feel that if these young men are forced to go to school it is better for them in the long run, they can use basketball as a means to getting a better education. Rather than what is happening now, which is kids striving to play in the NBA and not pursue there education. However, for a lot of these young men a structured school setting is not the type of education in which they thrive. For some of them the chance to play professionally and gain financial independence can help lead them to a multitude of career opportunities despite some lack of formal education. White people simply don’t like watching young black kids making money in something they do well. O’neal has echoed the sentiment I have had for years. Mario Lemeuix, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, never received their high school degrees and Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, and Alex Rodriguez have yet to graduate from college. Nobody seems to be complaining that they should be required to attend a certain amount of schooling before they go professional. We feel the need to force education on these young men. Most of them don’t want to be in school anyway, why force them to do something they don’t want to do? O’neal is a very smart and sharp young man, again when someone like him makes what sounds like an outlandish comment like this, the media jumps all over him and wants to portray him as being stupid. One thing I have learned is when people do this, especially when it is about race, they don’t want the truth to be out there. If his comment were truly ridiculous it would have been uttered by Mike Tyson and parodied on Mad TV. The NBA is a racist league, run by a bunch of old white people, using young black people for their own financial gain. Huummmm, that sounds an awful lot like some other business in American history.
Jersey Gate 2005
The great and talented and super team, Boston Red Sox, had their official World Series banner unveiling and ring ceremony yesterday. We will not dive into the ultra classy New York Yankees or the great Sawx fans or Boston sports legends Bill Russell, Bobby Orr, Johnny Pesky and Carl Yastremski, no instead we are forced to talk about Derek Lowe and Dave Roberts and their wardrobe. They both decided to don their World Series winning Red Sox home white uniform tops. Apparently John Kruk, Harold Reynolds and others seem to see this as some type of problem. This is the whole “baseball purist” bullshit that I absolutely hate. People get with the fucking times, it is 2005, most of these guys play for about 8 teams before they retire. Dave Roberts himself is on his fourth team in seven seasons and Lowe is on his third team in nine seasons. To me wearing the Jersey is no big deal. It is not disrespecting your current team; hell Lowe probably still doesn’t know the name of his backup second baseman on the Dodgers. The “purists” need to get over this. Times have changed; guys go from team to team every year. They have no loyalty, just as much as the clubs have no loyalty to them. It goes along with the “no fraternization” rule that old school baseball idiots subscribe to. These guys change teammates on a monthly basis, who gives fuck what jersey they were for their ring ceremony. As long as Lowe pitches his ass off every fifth day, that is all that matters. When guys get between the white lines they play their butts off for the team they are on, that is what counts.
T.O.
Every few months this guy becomes more and more of a horse’s ass. Some part of me really wants to like this guy because he performs, all the time, in big games and when he is hurt. He stepped up and played his butt off in the super bowl, but since then he has been acting a fool. He signed a huge deal with the Eagles and is the second highest paid receiver in the league and now wants to renegotiate. He got rid of his old agent and hired Drew Rosenhaus with the specific intent of trying to hold out and bleed the Eagles for more money. Hey jerk off your contract is fine, if you set some records over the next two years or actually win the whole thing for the Eagles then go ahead and try to restructure, but after one season, no dice pal. Then he decides he needs to air his side of the story and takes a huge shot at his team’s best player, fan favorite, and team leader. He was quoted as saying, “I wasn’t the one who got tired during the Super Bowl.” That is a low blow. He is trying to isolate himself from his teammates, for what reason I have no idea. Then he also said that his new agent and renegotiating his contract has nothing to do with monetary value. Here is a standing rule: When the say it’s not about the money, it is always about the money. He was also quoted as saying, “It's getting, in some ways, like it was for me in San Francisco.” He was of course talking about the media scrutinizing him at every turn. Well TO if the San Francisco people got on you, and now you moved to another team and their media and fans are getting on you, then maybe the problem is…….well………….uuhhhhh…………….YOU? Have you ever once considered that? This guy is just an idiot, plain and simple.
Racism in the NBA
Jermaine O’neal did not exactly say it correctly, but he is very close to being right. The policy hints at an underlying bigotry that exists with this policy. Yes I understand the way some black leaders look at the situation; they feel that if these young men are forced to go to school it is better for them in the long run, they can use basketball as a means to getting a better education. Rather than what is happening now, which is kids striving to play in the NBA and not pursue there education. However, for a lot of these young men a structured school setting is not the type of education in which they thrive. For some of them the chance to play professionally and gain financial independence can help lead them to a multitude of career opportunities despite some lack of formal education. White people simply don’t like watching young black kids making money in something they do well. O’neal has echoed the sentiment I have had for years. Mario Lemeuix, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, never received their high school degrees and Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, and Alex Rodriguez have yet to graduate from college. Nobody seems to be complaining that they should be required to attend a certain amount of schooling before they go professional. We feel the need to force education on these young men. Most of them don’t want to be in school anyway, why force them to do something they don’t want to do? O’neal is a very smart and sharp young man, again when someone like him makes what sounds like an outlandish comment like this, the media jumps all over him and wants to portray him as being stupid. One thing I have learned is when people do this, especially when it is about race, they don’t want the truth to be out there. If his comment were truly ridiculous it would have been uttered by Mike Tyson and parodied on Mad TV. The NBA is a racist league, run by a bunch of old white people, using young black people for their own financial gain. Huummmm, that sounds an awful lot like some other business in American history.
2 Comments:
OK, you're wrong on the jersey thing. These guys are employed by another team and are representing another team. They have no right wearing another teams jersey. It's perfectly fine for them to go there and participate in the ceremony and get their rings, but they should not have worn Red Sox jerseys. If I am the GM of LA I would be pissed that I spent a shit load of money to get Lowe to come pitch for his team and represent the Dodgers only for him to turn around and trot onto Fenway sporting a Red Sox jersey. Hey you wanna be Red Sock, then go play for them, but you aren't so accept your ring, waive to the crowd, fist pound your FORMER teammates and then represent your current team with class!!! Hey here's a question for you. What if Pedro or Lowe or Roberts would have been signed by the Yankees?? Would you have thought it be acceptible if they walked over to the other dugout, put on a Red Sox jersey and galavanted around in front of their new teamates??? Absolutely not, and you, King George, and the rest of the Yankees faithful would be singing a different tune right now. The Yanks don't allow that and that's why they're a winning franchise and that's why George is a good buisnessman and why Kevin Towers and Paule DePodesta are complete wanks and have no fucking clue what they're doing!!! Fuck Derek Lowe, Fuck Dave Roberts!!! You only wear one uniform at a time and it should be the one that's paying you the millions of dollars to perform, not the one that gave you up!!
When will T.O. learn. THe man is coming off a spectecular season in which he made a near miraclous comeback to play in the Super Bowl. He also made it through the season realitively contrversy free. Here is a man who had Philly in the palm of his hand. If there is one thing Philly fans hate is whining crybabies. Maybe he should go ask Scott Rolen how fast this city can turn on you. They booed Mike Schmidt for christ sake!! And he won a ring!!!
TF
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