The Cassel Situation...

I was watching the Chiefs play the Crows…ahh…Ravens and the Chiefs under-performing QB was injured on a play.  The fans cheered. I mentioned to the missus that it was a low class move to cheer when a guy is hurt; its bad enough when it is an opposing player but it is just wrong when it is your own guy. Matt Cassel is not a good starting QB, but he is one tough SOB. He rushed back from appendix surgery to play. Then n came the press conference. The Chiefs starting right tackle, Eric Winston, ripped into the fans. He made allusions to being embarrassed by them (Which is a backhanded way of saying he is embarrassed by being a Chief) and that it was disgusting. He is right, however he did not stop there. He continued to say that they are not gladiators and that they will live shorter lives because of there chosen profession. He said he was not asking for sympathy but pointed out that we should not cheer when guys get hurt as it represents the shortening of their lives.

OK, If he wasn’t asking for sympathy there is no reason to bring it up. I was supporting him until that moment. How many fans won’t live to see there 60th birthday because of their chosen profession? KC PD officers get to retire after 15 years do to the hazardous and stressful conditions they work under. In those 15 yeasr they will be lucky to get near the amount of money you earned in one year Mr. Winston. You sir get $900,000 dollars for this year; if an officer averages $54,000 and if they worked for 15 years it would be around $810,000. Of course you got that $2,000,000 signing bonus for this year. In 5 years you will earn $22 million. Is your life more valuable that a longshoreman? A coal miner? How many Pennsylvania coal miners root for the Steelers every weekend? How many guys working in the steel mills root for the Steelers? 
How abut those factory workers in Kansas City who will live shorter lives due to the conditions they work?

Mr. Winston you have a skill that is marketable that will give you millions of dollars. You work in a relatively safe profession. How many pro football players died in the last 15 years on the job? I can only think of one. How many soldiers have died in the same time-frame? Police? Firefighters? Fisherman? Miners? Construction workers?

So, when a truck driver who spends thousands of dollars each year in season tickets, parking, concessions and merchandising just to have something to cheer for in an otherwise mundane existence cheers when a millionaire is hurt and the back-up gives him a ray of hope then I say let him. He doesn’t need to be preached at by some self righteous RT who hasn’t lived up to his contract and is part of the reason the fans are as frustrated as they are. Its Just Sickening to have to listen to you tell us what we have the right to do when it costs us so much.

What Killed Baseball...

Back in the Nineties we used to enjoy the occasional baseball game. We kind of liked it when, during Sports Center, you would see KC played NY and you would have to double check what day it was to see if it was a football score or baseball. Guys were breaking records and the baseballs became hot commodities. Of course that was when the guys who were breaking the records looked like this:

and this:

(note: We Binged white baseball players and this came up...seriously)

Even more records fell and games were exciting. all was bliss for sports fans; that is until this Guy:

We firmly believe that people were so eager that this guy not be the face of baseball that they went after him with both barrels and in the process exposed the rampant steroid usage and took the offense out of baseball.

Some people argue that Barry just rubbed people the wrong way; that he is just a jerk. Well so is McGwire.

WE hate people who pull the race card for every little thing, but there is no way around it. the red headed freckled guy had a great record and the surly black man broke it. If you think we are lying, McGwire lied to congress and has a job in baseball now. 

Barry broke the record, no team would sign him and was convicted of obstruction of justice based on him lying to federal prosecutors even though they could not convict him of lying due to lack of evidence.


Now baseball is back to 'pitchers duals' and sports writters all across America lament about the 'Steroid Era'. while we are stuck with boring games and good naps. 


BTW: Many people still support Lance Armstrong. several polls say he did not cheat. people cite the 500 blood tets without a positive test.


Show us Barry Bonds Positive test. 

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