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Was absolutely correct. And led to the total embarrassment of the entire Arizona organization from Manager to fans. It led to the typical TV announcer speech about a few jerks throwing things on the field that does not represent all the knowledgeable and mature fans. Here's how it works......
A.) Team doesn't play well. Their ace gets spanked. They piss away their own rallies. They make errors leading to runs.
B.) An uncommon call is made by the umps. Replay shows it to be 100 percent accurate. Which was easy enough to see in real time. The classic thing is a double play wasn't going to happen anyhow--too slow a grounder and too slow a turn--and the runner, who should have realized this, intentionally body blocks anyhow. So player jaws and manager comes out and jaws. Fans go nuts hollering and booing. Oh boy, now we have an oppurtunity to blame the whole thing on the umps.
C.) This gives the green light, as always, to the goons to start throwing things on the field. WE'RE GETTING SCREWED. It's all one group effort starting with the frustrated manager going off about the correct call.
D.) And for the remainder of the game ball-strike calls are booed both ways. Which the fans certainly can't determine to be accurate or not. Just mindlessly booing any call that goes against the home team, which was the case in the initial double play call too.
It's embarrassing.
You can see the Arizona runner's mind in action...Ooops my slide didn't get him so I better extend out, coming out of the slide, and hammer him.
Are not performance enhancers? They could have played the same without the pain? Why take the painkillers?...... They were taken to alleviate pain and enhance performance. Sometimes needed to be able to play at all. I'd say that's enhancing.
Rooting big time for South Florida or Cincinnati to go undefeated? Then we get treated to 95 percent of the media and fans claiming they are unworthy. Who actually saw, maybe, and with prejudice, part of one of their games...or site one score where they didn't beat somebody bad enough or one stat that isn't great--something you can do to any team.
In reality they know absolutely nothing about them. Other than the team name is not one that rings a bell like the big names when they were growing up. Another case of arrested development.
Using steroids or HGH in order to build up the body to the point where pain isn't so common----in other words a pain killer.
Have become totally scripted. It would be interesting to see one with nobody able to get enough delegates, and the factions unable to compromise on someone in the race, so they ask Gore.
But the Advil will relieve pain which will assist the user at the cubicle or on the ballfield. A performance enhancer.
I'm not mad at you. You'll know when I'm mad. You won't be breathing.
As to your question, my right ankle and achilles are in fantastic shape from the pedal on the golf cart. That's about it.
But I have to be nearing a world record in repetetive bong lifting.
On the statutory point. There are legal and illegal performance enhancers.
No cause to insult to that magnitude.
Saturday Or Sunday, you can see lunatics posing as coaches.
First Cal. They incredibly worked their way into easy field goal position to tie it with the backup QB. You cannot let him run a play with 14 seconds left and no timeouts. You tie it, consider yourself lucky, and see what happens in overtime.
As far as the Cowboys 22 yard field goal to make it 38-27 Pats with 10 minutes left, that was so obviously ridiculous it's not worth the time and effort to say why. Suffice to say that it's some kind of "we have to get points on the drive" mentality that is indefensible.
I've been watching the various TV media punditry as the scores rolled in the last couple weeks from NCAA football. One twit said "insane". Another "unbelievable". There was a "beyond comprehension". And even a "just plain stupid".
I'll cast my line and bobber out and try to fish up something from the psychological stew.
Just a few weeks ago the expert studio panelists almost universally informed us that it's USC and LSU head and shoulders above everyone else, with Oklahoma maybe causing BCS trouble if they go undefeated too. Now the last 9 games for those 3 teams, the last 3 for each, is a combined 265-213 or 29-24 per game. Each has lost one and almost lost another or all 3. With several unranked opponents among the 9.
The only thing I can figure is the media looks at who closed out last year on a roll, which of those teams has the most coming back, and maybe quickly take a gander at the recruiting rankings. Then they select the monster teams that are way better than everyone else and sing their praises right from the get-go, praying for and trying to set up a "game for the ages" at bowl time right from the get-go.
Then when parity raises it's ugly head, as it has been doing more frequently with each passing year (which the media seems to be completely oblivious of), they declare it to be "insane", "unbelievable", "beyond comprehension" or "just plain stupid."
There's not that much difference between a whole lot of these teams. Many more than can be squeezed in to a top-25, which seems to be the criteria used to determine if a team is somebody or not. And no matter who you are, you better eat an extra bowl of Wheaties before any road game.
It's not insane or unbelievable. What is beyond comprehension and just plain stupid is the media still pretending that it's 1975.
With 5 weekends to go and then conference championship games, we are getting perilously close to a 2 loss team in the title game.