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A bridge too far: Sports world destroying itself by excusing miscreants
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Oct 19, 2023, 5:52:16 PM10/19/23
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Ever see the spectacular footage of the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge? Woefully planned and constructed, it opened to traffic in
July. Four months later it hideously swayed and rolled until it snapped
like a cheap toy, and fell into Puget Sound.
It had, very briefly, been the world’s third-longest suspension bridge
behind the Golden Gate and George Washington.
Construction workers, who nicknamed the span “Galloping Gertie” for its
instability, claimed its fate was inevitable. It was a temporary monument
to systemic, stick-to-the-plan neglect.
It was, after all, a toll bridge.
Such a day of reckoning — or is it wreck-ening? — approaches for all our
sports, now in the hands of deconstructionists who would sell our and
their souls at a diseased cattle auction.
This week, the Jets made it official, signing reprobate running back
Dalvin Cook to a one-year deal for a reported $8.6 million to perform here
in PSL Stadium.
This money, if he chooses and/or is not suspended, will allow Cook to
increase his payment offer to his ex-girlfriend who is suing him for
beating her swollen and bloody. Despite a text to her in which Cook wrote,
“If you wanna go to the police I’ll respect that [and] I’ll take my
punishment for what I did!” Cook claims innocence.
Court records show that his first two offers to her to buy his way out —
$800,000 then $1 million — were rejected.
The NFL has a profound and persistent problem with players brutalizing
women. Last month Panthers’ CB Chris Claybrooks was arrested for the
second time since mid-April for domestic assault against two different
women.
The Jets’ first-round pick in 2016, LB Darron Lee from Ohio St., in June
was issued an arrest warrant by a Columbus, Ohio judge for failure to
appear to face domestic violence charges. He has been charged with two
separate domestic abuse crimes — one against the mother of his child, the
other against his mother.
Jets’ owner Woody Johnson this offseason tried to lure determined
miscreant Odell Beckham, Jr., with servile, facts-defying flattery: “That
Odell Beckham, a man of character and quality, would consider us and want
to be with us . . . If that’s what he wants it’s pretty much a
compliment.”
Choose A or B: A) Johnson is an ignorant fool. B) He thinks you are.
Regardless, Roger Goodell has turned NFL fields and even helmets into
conspicuous TV-delivered social virtues message platforms. We, and not the
NFL and its players, must improve our civility, tolerance and respect for
humankind. Yeah, shame on us.
Last weekend, CBS’s Jim Nantz, who speaks as if golf courses are religious
shrines and certain disreputable golfers are two putts on 18 short of
sainthood, last weekend joined the legion of just-following-orders and/or
the money celebrities, retired athletes and media to encourage viewers and
listeners to invest their money in a business fully predicated on
investors losing their money.
Nantz, aided by a graphic, invited the vulnerable — preferably saps — to
gamble on golf via the PGA’s financial partnership with FanDuel.
Nantz has already seen how gamblers, along with booze, have increased the
misconduct of once-respectful on-course spectators — not to mention the
growing cases of gambling on sports by college and pro athletes who have
taken the relentlessly televised bait. He has helped loosen another bolt
in a bridge over the River Of Ruin.
Last week West Virginia University, which chooses to spend millions of
dollars annually to send its men’s and women’s “student-athletes” on
wildly expensive, extended trips to play conference games in the Midwest
and Texas, announced plans to eliminate 32 academic majors as well as 170
academic faculty in order to service a $45 million deficit.
Majors proposed to be dropped include foreign languages, special
education, environmental and community planning, art history, Masters in
higher education and Ph.Ds in math.
Last year the three highest-paid WVU employees were foul-mouthed, DWI
recidivist and now ex-basketball coach Bob Huggins, football coach Neal
Brown and athletic director Wren Baker, totaling roughly $10 million per
year, not including perks.
Thus WVU is another U.S. college that serves as a front for football and
basketball teams, though win-at-all-cost goals do not appear in WVU’s or
any other college’s mission statements.
At the same time, big-ticket sports universities, most partially funded by
taxpayers, continue to accumulate bridge-too-far red ink.
And WVU, as do many colleges, annually contributes to the arrest totals of
full scholarship “student-athletes.” Among WVU’s gifts to society is one-
man NFL crime wave Pacman Jones.
The decline of MLB as a beautiful and cherished father-to-son sport, now
on the precipice of self-immolation, has been treated with more and more
money that has become impossible to justify or sustain, no matter how much
the public loses to commercialized, MLB-sold prompts to bet parlays
despite multimillionaire players who choose to not run to first base.
As of Thursday, the teams with the highest payrolls — highest, as in
insane — the Mets, Yankees and Padres — were a combined 173-190. The
Angels, at No. 6, were 60-62. The Orioles, at 29th among 30, ahead of only
the A’s, were 74-47.
And the game has been abandoned — sacrificed — to diminished skills,
training and Jack and the Beanstalk analytics … well, here comes a typical
box score, now:
Monday’s D’backs-Rockies, Colorado won, 6-4. Arizona’s designated hitter
Kyle Lewis, batting .162, went 0-for-4, striking out twice. Teammate and
third baseman Jace Peterson, batting .216, was 0-for-4 with three K’s.
The Rockies struck out 13 times against five widely unknown pitchers.
Batting third at .250, Ryan McMahon went 1-for-4, striking out his other
three times, OF Michael Toglia, went 3-for-3 — all strikeouts.
Yep, sports fans, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. But you’d better hurry! And
don’t buy a round-trip ticket!
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
miscreants/
Ever see the spectacular footage of the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge? Woefully planned and constructed, it opened to traffic in
July. Four months later it hideously swayed and rolled until it snapped
like a cheap toy, and fell into Puget Sound.
It had, very briefly, been the world’s third-longest suspension bridge
behind the Golden Gate and George Washington.
Construction workers, who nicknamed the span “Galloping Gertie” for its
instability, claimed its fate was inevitable. It was a temporary monument
to systemic, stick-to-the-plan neglect.
It was, after all, a toll bridge.
Such a day of reckoning — or is it wreck-ening? — approaches for all our
sports, now in the hands of deconstructionists who would sell our and
their souls at a diseased cattle auction.
This week, the Jets made it official, signing reprobate running back
Dalvin Cook to a one-year deal for a reported $8.6 million to perform here
in PSL Stadium.
This money, if he chooses and/or is not suspended, will allow Cook to
increase his payment offer to his ex-girlfriend who is suing him for
beating her swollen and bloody. Despite a text to her in which Cook wrote,
“If you wanna go to the police I’ll respect that [and] I’ll take my
punishment for what I did!” Cook claims innocence.
Court records show that his first two offers to her to buy his way out —
$800,000 then $1 million — were rejected.
The NFL has a profound and persistent problem with players brutalizing
women. Last month Panthers’ CB Chris Claybrooks was arrested for the
second time since mid-April for domestic assault against two different
women.
The Jets’ first-round pick in 2016, LB Darron Lee from Ohio St., in June
was issued an arrest warrant by a Columbus, Ohio judge for failure to
appear to face domestic violence charges. He has been charged with two
separate domestic abuse crimes — one against the mother of his child, the
other against his mother.
Jets’ owner Woody Johnson this offseason tried to lure determined
miscreant Odell Beckham, Jr., with servile, facts-defying flattery: “That
Odell Beckham, a man of character and quality, would consider us and want
to be with us . . . If that’s what he wants it’s pretty much a
compliment.”
Choose A or B: A) Johnson is an ignorant fool. B) He thinks you are.
Regardless, Roger Goodell has turned NFL fields and even helmets into
conspicuous TV-delivered social virtues message platforms. We, and not the
NFL and its players, must improve our civility, tolerance and respect for
humankind. Yeah, shame on us.
Last weekend, CBS’s Jim Nantz, who speaks as if golf courses are religious
shrines and certain disreputable golfers are two putts on 18 short of
sainthood, last weekend joined the legion of just-following-orders and/or
the money celebrities, retired athletes and media to encourage viewers and
listeners to invest their money in a business fully predicated on
investors losing their money.
Nantz, aided by a graphic, invited the vulnerable — preferably saps — to
gamble on golf via the PGA’s financial partnership with FanDuel.
Nantz has already seen how gamblers, along with booze, have increased the
misconduct of once-respectful on-course spectators — not to mention the
growing cases of gambling on sports by college and pro athletes who have
taken the relentlessly televised bait. He has helped loosen another bolt
in a bridge over the River Of Ruin.
Last week West Virginia University, which chooses to spend millions of
dollars annually to send its men’s and women’s “student-athletes” on
wildly expensive, extended trips to play conference games in the Midwest
and Texas, announced plans to eliminate 32 academic majors as well as 170
academic faculty in order to service a $45 million deficit.
Majors proposed to be dropped include foreign languages, special
education, environmental and community planning, art history, Masters in
higher education and Ph.Ds in math.
Last year the three highest-paid WVU employees were foul-mouthed, DWI
recidivist and now ex-basketball coach Bob Huggins, football coach Neal
Brown and athletic director Wren Baker, totaling roughly $10 million per
year, not including perks.
Thus WVU is another U.S. college that serves as a front for football and
basketball teams, though win-at-all-cost goals do not appear in WVU’s or
any other college’s mission statements.
At the same time, big-ticket sports universities, most partially funded by
taxpayers, continue to accumulate bridge-too-far red ink.
And WVU, as do many colleges, annually contributes to the arrest totals of
full scholarship “student-athletes.” Among WVU’s gifts to society is one-
man NFL crime wave Pacman Jones.
The decline of MLB as a beautiful and cherished father-to-son sport, now
on the precipice of self-immolation, has been treated with more and more
money that has become impossible to justify or sustain, no matter how much
the public loses to commercialized, MLB-sold prompts to bet parlays
despite multimillionaire players who choose to not run to first base.
As of Thursday, the teams with the highest payrolls — highest, as in
insane — the Mets, Yankees and Padres — were a combined 173-190. The
Angels, at No. 6, were 60-62. The Orioles, at 29th among 30, ahead of only
the A’s, were 74-47.
And the game has been abandoned — sacrificed — to diminished skills,
training and Jack and the Beanstalk analytics … well, here comes a typical
box score, now:
Monday’s D’backs-Rockies, Colorado won, 6-4. Arizona’s designated hitter
Kyle Lewis, batting .162, went 0-for-4, striking out twice. Teammate and
third baseman Jace Peterson, batting .216, was 0-for-4 with three K’s.
The Rockies struck out 13 times against five widely unknown pitchers.
Batting third at .250, Ryan McMahon went 1-for-4, striking out his other
three times, OF Michael Toglia, went 3-for-3 — all strikeouts.
Yep, sports fans, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. But you’d better hurry! And
don’t buy a round-trip ticket!
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
P. Parker
Oct 19, 2023, 6:34:20 PM10/19/23
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>miscreants/
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Sports contracts to black atheletes that make black people more wealthy than
white people greatly incense the rightists and they are seeking a ban on
them. It's even supported by Clarence Thomas who suffers a mental condition
where he believes himself to be a white man.
Red State poverty has soared since 2015 when Trump arrived on the scene and
has successfully and repeatedly duped mostly white bread rightists out of
their life savings forcing them on welfare and destroying the economies of
the Red States.
>miscreants/
>
Sports contracts to black atheletes that make black people more wealthy than
white people greatly incense the rightists and they are seeking a ban on
them. It's even supported by Clarence Thomas who suffers a mental condition
where he believes himself to be a white man.
Red State poverty has soared since 2015 when Trump arrived on the scene and
has successfully and repeatedly duped mostly white bread rightists out of
their life savings forcing them on welfare and destroying the economies of
the Red States.
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