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Hits the nail on the head. Nerds wearing their morality on their sleeves and using the most important aspect of their lives, that of a 24-7 sports spectator, as their avenue to mount pulpit and deliver sermon. If they had been around at Salem, pre-sports, they would have been rounding up witches.
It's not a matter of right and wrong. Good or bad. Moral or immoral. Legal or illegal.
Our society has deemed athletes to be worthy of piles of cash and glory. This situation arising from the millions of nerds making it all the focus of their lives. And there are drugs to help the athlete get to the top. Now the nerds are preaching?
Is one more way that purveyors of bullshit and hallucination can harken back to the "good ole days".
Like I've said before, science needs to focus it's energy and technology to build a time machine so we can send the jerks back.
You had to be white.
Moral outrage at steroids, looking back at 1925 with adoration, nostalgia, and respect.
To lump Bonds in with Dykstra. Bonds was indisputable Hall of fame before steroids.
The theatre of morality has been born and grown as blacks have dominated sports.
It's kinda like the modern regulations instituted in college athletics-academics. Can you just imagine the ignorant hillbillies that played for Alabama and Georgia in 1940. Back then it was "He's one of our hosses, give him a C."
Appears to be a high percentage white. It may not be a concerted effort or an official conspiracy but this entire fiasco in large measure could be viewed as whitey trying to keep up, and-or reclaim his former position on top.
Me and you gonna collide.
Minus the Clintons the democratic party has resided in the Whitehouse for 4 years since 1968.
Obama will tell us the TRUTH...........LMAO
Considers himself Mister truth. If it's him versus Obama they will be saying opposite things, both claiming truth.
The "truth" can only be handed out in very small doses. And in many cases there is no truth. Anyone claiming to be dishing out truth every day, is simply a person with no respect for the truth.
Bullying, cheating, and robbing......How much of American history needs an asterisk?
Settle down..........Win at all costs is America. Always has been. Always will be. In every regard. You hate America or something?
The Clintons are now the scapegoat for win at all costs? Jesus H. Christ.
You mean without the juice Bonds would have hit zero instead of 73?
We have Hillary, the right-wingers worst nightmare. A daily living hell for them. And we are hesitating.
I've found that if you go with your gut, down deep, the other stuff often works out better than you anticipated.........You shoved Dubya up our asses for 8 years, now we're gonna ram Hillary down your throats.
This neo-con machine, talk radio, and swiftboaters are win at all costs on steroids. They are Mike Tyson at his prime. Let's send the Clintons into the ring again....a.k.a. Buster Douglas.
With win at any cost. And listening to the wimps pout is the best part.
It's a win.
"Moral timidity", I reach for my gun. I'm sending you off to be judged.
Me.
He may have decided he doesn't have the stomach for it.
Don't be ignorant like a right winger.........You need a translation for "I didn't inhale", okay I'm here for you........."If you are going to ask me that nosey and stupid of a question, I'll treat you to the stupidest answer I can think of."
That's why the independent counsel declined to indict for perjury.
To beat the right wing mad dogs.
You mean Bill...........It's been Hillary all along.
For either party.
You hold on to your idealism until that neocon prick has you bleeding. They don't use vaseline.
Any game you have watched, or ever will watch you don't KNOW if it was square.
You'll get a headache.
Is the money is so huge now, in all directions, don't be expecting up-and-up.
Has swung full. The Black Sox got paid shit, so human nature reared it's head. Now the money is carted around in dump trucks, and human nature again.
Hillary welcomes the nerd vote. That's an important democratic constituency, which seems to be growing from the appearances around here.
He doesn't even know if the games are fair anymore.
Is the only pure level playing field that's left.
He owns Golf no matter who does what...... Well, the other guys could lynch him.
To the sports thread. I don't want to be accused of wearing something out.
And the referees cheating.......LOL.
An army of sports nerds and an army of political nerds charging at each other with swords drawn and screaming..like BRAVEHEART.
You believed Paula Jones........she went from her minimum wage husband and lawsuit against Clinton to celebrity boxing matches and a spread in a nudie mag.
All games are frauds with cheaters. You just don't know which are.
Various degrees of recruiting shannanigans and illegal perks, it's hard to imagine there's been many, if any, legitimate NCAA basketball and football champs.
Have to be careful when we tell the truth.
They say that steroids can improve eyesight. What if the guy uses for that?
Have to be racial? The point could have been that just because ANYONE wins South Carolina that doesn't mean that determines the nomination.
I was really bummed out after South Carolina. But this rout in Florida erases that. Pure joy.
As I watched the returns come in last night I wept.
Must be like Walter Shapiro.........terrified of women.