I don't know how you live your life, and I'm not judging you, I'm actually judging myself right here-could I have any more post-it notes, please?! I have more crappy little scribbles on my desk right now and have no clue what they mean or in what context they were written in. Brilliant. The constant procrastinator rides again. My excuse will be the last bit of this blog (I've had this stupid cold for a week, and I know it's almost gone, but tough to get rid of when you won't get to bed early. I'm a walking freakin' contradiction right now.)
Anywho, something has been kind of bugging me, now that pitchers and catchers have reported (hells yeah)....it's that Mark McGwire not only has a job, but he has a job that involved him cheating and lying about it...and not being very good at it. Mark McGwire, career .263 hitter, admitted (finally) that he took steriods, but they never helped him hit a baseball far. Uh, yeah, right. Keep believing the hype. Here's a couple of things to ponder. The first one is what if you're a better hitter than Big Mac? Yes, he hit a ton of home runs. But his On-Base % lifetime isn't anything to brag about, unless you're factoring in total bases and intentional walks. If you are current 1B Albert Pujols, are you listening to anything McGwire says in the batting cage? During spring training? Even if you're in an 0-15 slump? I wouldn't, not if I were that much better, and believe me, Pujols is. The other thing that I want to know is why he didn't have to work his way up. Most hitting coaches have to start off in the minor leagues and work their way up. Heck, it's how most of life is. The only way you get to be CEO of a company if you don't work your way up to it is to either be born into it or start the company yourself. If I go to a Rockies/Cardinals game, I'm not going to boo him, because he's already shown himself to be a joke. When he went on TV and told everyone that he was 'speaking from the heart', it totally negated it for me. It's like when people ask me if I'm passionate about things. I think I am, but I don't like stating it that way. I sound like a fraud, at least I do in my head. McGwire is going to be going to every city in the National League and he's going to be asked the same questions. I just wonder if anyone is going to ask him why he's more qualified to be a hitting coach over someone who has put in the time and the work. He sure hasn't. Taking pills and injecting yourself with artificial testosterone certainly doesn't sound like hard work. Yes, you need certain ability to hit a round ball with a round bat, but steriods and HGH will allow you to hit it farther and maybe even improve your fast-twitch muscle fibers to allow you to get to the ball slightly faster. What could have been an out on the warning track is now in the 2nd deck. If any of these guys had been honest, I might not be as hard on them. I'd admit it, especially when my helmet goes up in size and my numbers get better after I turn 30. It's just not likely in sports. It's rare, but still unlikely. More so in baseball, because we have so much data and video to figure statistics out. Baseball is the sport that uses stats to compare players era by era, decade by decade, etc. Could McGwire have hit back in the 1960's? I have no clue. But I do know that guys playing in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and up to around 2005 were taking 'greenies', which are a type of amphetimines. Everyone is looking for an edge. We see it wherever we go. It freaks me out when I see 12 year olds getting red bulls or monster energy drinks. You're 12! But, when your athletic heroes are doing this stuff, what would you do?
Tiger Woods
Okay, who stopped what they were doing to watch the robot show? I'm not working, and I didn't watch it live. What I saw was awful. He's had this much time and this is the best he could come up with? Does he have a PR coach? A speech coach? I thought I was listening to my car tell me the door is ajar. Jason Whitlock wants Tiger to go away. Jay Mariotti wants us to leave Tiger alone...I think Jay is an idiot, but it's just to see what other writers are putting out there. Jemele Hill wants to know where the Mrs. was, and that her absence says it all. Bill Simmons is the guy I will be agreeing with the most. Not all of it, though. First, though, some sidenotes. Ernie Els called out Woods for doing this on the Friday of a tournament sponsored by Accenture, the first company to drop Woods as a spokesman. Coincidence? Maybe. But in all this Tiger Woods epic saga of BS, if it smells like more manure, then I'm with Els on this one. Second, the Golf Writers Association of America blasted Woods for not taking any questions. This is standard operating procedure for an athlete in trouble nowadays. They hand pick the venue and/or the interviewer, so they know there will be no difficult questions. In Woods' case, he stated well before this pathetic attempt at an apology (I'll get to why in a second) that there would be no questions, that he would read a prepared statement and that's it.
So, why is it pathetic? Simple, really. It's because it was full of crap. He apologized to his wife 3rd! Who did he apologize to first? His sponsors! Sorry buddy, but while I doubt the wife will be allowing you to play slap and tickle anytime soon, Nike ain't going to let you cozy up to it, either. I don't care how much wickaway fleece they make. If Tiger had said he screwed up, that he shouldn't be married, that he wants to be a good father and maybe someday be married again, fine. But this was too awful of a showing. Leave him alone? No problem in my world I think golf sucks. And I know, I know, he's not the only athlete to cheat on his wife. That doesn't make it okay. Sorry, I know I'm a simple unemployed man, but I've never cheated. Hell, I don't even know if I can date more than 2 women at the same time. I've been cheated on. It's disgusting. More importantly...have you seen the porn stars' press conference? The porn star is one of the many women Tiger nailed (sorry, she's a porn star, I'm thinking they didn't make love, okay?) and one of her many claims is that she was pregnant twice with Tiger's seed. Excuse me, if you're a porn star, isn't one of the main goals of your, ahem, job to NOT GET PREGNANT? I know there wasn't a ton of press on this thing, because really, after you see this woman in her wig, why take her seriously? I'm not stating that she might be telling the truth, but come on already.
I think Tiger might want to go away for a long while. Maybe Whitlock is right. But I'm with Simmons, especially on the title of his article, Tiger is still playing by his own rules. And Tiger has screwed it up for the real Playahs of the world. I'm not one of them, so I'm fine. I can't imagine trying to keep all this crap together, and there are at least 10 mistresses that we know about. I knew a girl once who wouldn't sleep with a friend of mine (a complete manwhore), and she told me one night why she would never sleep with him-he had a 'dirty dick'. Now, while that is hilarious, isn't it possible that Elin is thinking the same thing about her husband right about now? Wouldn't you? Would you even be with him still? Any woman that ever cheats on me is gone, there is no 'we can work it out' phase, only the 'get out' phase.
lazy cold day...with a cold. Yup, that's why I'm writing this at 10 on a Friday night. I had to shut it down. Last weekend wasn't even that crazy, I was just out way past bedtime for someone who is sick. Hopefully this whole thing will be gone completely by Monday and I can hit that job search all over again.
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