A collection of thoughts and ramblings from a self medicating Renaissance man. You don't have to agree, but it might give you pause for thought and that's always a good thing.
I've noticed the bashers of Mark Mcgwire will never be happy. First they say "Just admit you were on steroids, come clean and all will be right in the baseball world. Forget that we don't even talk about A-Rod or Giambi anymore. These guys are still getting paid. Mcgwire walked away from a huge payday and didn't look back. Yet we kept after him, expecting closure. He didn't give it and that made us mad, until now. He comes clean and now we can't accept "I did it". Can you really look at someone who walked away from 30 million dollars and call him a liar? And that what's happening now. "I did it to stay healthy, to reduce injuries", that's what he believes. 6 hours a day in the gym made him a fanatic about fitness, steroids helped him play, but it certainly didn't make him smarter about the game. No amount of strength will help you hit a 80 mph curve ball, period. Michael Jordan, considered by many as one of the premier athletes of our generation, proved that.
And now, these idiots that never played a game at that level want to compare generations like they are remotely similar. Babe Ruth never did that or Ted Williams have didn't use, "How do we know what they were doing?" The media circus that surrounds todays players would have made those guys hide in a closet. They had the benefit of "some things are better left unsaid". The 24 hour media coverage is based in sensationalism. Warhols 15 minutes of fame has turned into 15 days or 15 months. Relentless diatribe until we cry "uncle" I can't take it anymore.
So let it go already, you got your guilty admission, now what are you gonna do with it. I suggest you remember how in 1998, with baseball on the brink of collapse, two athletes/entertainers, kept us on the edge of our seat every time they came to bat. That saved baseball and paved the way for these huge contracts today. So if you're Matt Holliday, Jason Bey or any other of the recent Sweepstakes winners, keep in mind Mcgwire and Sosa allowed you to get 4 or 5 times what you would have been able to negotiate in a contract had that season never happened.
We often don't like the methods to achieve these inflated salaries, but not one professional athlete has offered to give back the money caused by the Mcgwire/Sosa era.
Today is a sunny, inviting day, yet it's like 6 degrees outside. Kind of a "wolf in sheeps clothing".
I was looking over the past year wondering what how much more can our government spend before there is absolutely no chance we can ever pay it back. Is it a dollar? Is it a million? Is it a billion? Is it a trillion? Are we past the point of no return?
What gives a person in society the incentive to provide for themselves and their family? We use to look down on capable people who didn't make their own way, or we let them starve until they realized they were capable of contributing to society by pulling their own weight. Yet by todays standards, we don't expect them to make the effort. We label them as less fortunate, oppressed, illegals or as in the last election, newly recruited Democrats.
Why is it that people who have never paid into the system and continue to get maximum benefits, seem less than motivated to become productive? I dunno?
Shut the Teet off
America, we voted this free spending group into office. Vote them out. It's like we went to the casino and hit a bad, bad run, cashed in a few markers praying to get even all the while knowing we couldn't cover the markers. The markers are coming due and who is going to take the beating for not being able to pay? You, me or the ones can't be weened off Americas' Teet?
