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NEW BONES / MAY 2007
So here is a new bone to pick and I wonder if anyone else has any thoughts on this. It has nothing to do with film or Sorry Dog. This time it has to do with sports and the absolute crap that goes on in professional sports today. How many of you out there have been keeping up with the playoffs? Is it just me or does it seem the referee's are deciding all the games? I watched as the Phoenix Suns just got destroyed by the play of the San Antonio Spurs and nobody ever blew a whistle. Finally, when someone does decide to make a call, they throw two players out from the Suns who stood up to see their franchise player get body checked into the first row of fans. Perhaps I am wrong to get so disgusted with it but it really seems to me that the sport has been going on a steady down-hill slide since the fight that happened with the Indiana Pacers.
It's not just basketball I'm complaining about. It's cycling with all the problems with Floyd Landis and the drug charges and accusations. It's all the hoopla behind the home run chase with Barry Bonds and all the people who either love him or hate him. It's Bret Favre and him wanting to be traded one day and then stating he wants to retire a Packer the next. It's Terrel Owens and on and on and on.
Is the payday ever enough? I wonder if the athletes in the 60's complained like they do today? I know they didn't make a 100 million for playing baseball. Even the media is just going insane. We all know Howard Stern is a crazy guy. Personally, I really dig the guy and all he's done for free speech and radio in general but even Howard admits that 9 dollars a second is insane…… And still yet, this is what the man is making.
I don't know if I'd complain if it were me making the money either. I suppose if someone tells you you're are worth 500 million dollars and they are going to pay you that, sooner or later you start to believe it. The problem is that this is what kids now aspire to. We don't see kids wearing the Jerseys nowadays because they like the team. It's the person playing for the team. Sure, I had Larry Bird but he never left Boston and I liked the team. There was some loyalty or at least I thought there was. We watched Karl Malone leave Utah and go to LA to try and get a championship. Gary Payton and so many others. There doesn't seem to be any loyalty anymore anywhere.
There was one bright spot in all of these playoffs that I could find. After the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the other night a reporter asked him how he felt and he said it was "Just a game". He then went on to mention that he "Had a family waiting on him at home" and it at least gave me a little hope for professional sports. Of course this was while he was drinking a sprite. Thanks for reading my rant and I'd love to hear yours. Please send them to me and we may post them on the site. You can rant about anything you want. Even me being wrong.
Peace.
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