United States of WHAAAAmerica

This country is going to shit. Do you know how I know? It is not the economy, unemployment rate or the war in Iraq, you know the obvious stuff. We are going through a tough time and those are and should be the issues. However, we have been pussified and special interest groups and over protective parents are consumed with being wronged and making sure every knows about about. There is so much time being spent on phony, self serving witch hunts and the suffocation of our most generic rights. If we lived in a land called Stepford and all they served was vanilla than this would be all right.

We don't though. We live in a land of opportunity, allegedly. Opportunity to be who an individual and say and feel what you want( to an extent). Everyone is different, that is just the way it is. People are obviously different races, religions, etc etc., but it goes further. Some people are extremely generous, others have sordid pasts or strange thoughts and habits. One could be easily offended, while another could have a "warped" sense of humor. In a country with 300 million people where all are different, these personalities have a place. That point needs to be realized, especially by the non-silent minority.

The saying goes the squeaky wheel gets the grease. That is certainly the case with special interest groups, religions and the previously mentioned phony witch hunters. Today alone I came across four cases that could be solved with a shrug of the shoulders, yet were hot news items. Here they are and what should happen instead of making a big deal of it.

1. Jesuit college (BC) students and faculty complain about crucifixes placed in all class rooms. To the point letters were written and the Boston Herald caught wind of it.

Guess what, Jesus isn't coming off the cross to convert anyone. If he did, well that would speak for itself. If you go to BC and aren't of the catholic persuasion and are offended at the idea a catholic based college might involve Jesus somehow, you are an idiot. Most people who go to college or teach at a college should be old enough to resist the temptation of the cross. Really, you are 18+ plus years old and a cross on a wall is offensive. How? It isn't saying "hey drop that Mussy Allah and start wasting your Sundays mornings sitting on an uncomfortable bench". The crosses are just collecting dust on a wall, just like all the crap at your grandma's house. Your education will not be affected by a crucifix, unless you are a vampire.

2. A CVS in Dorchester is getting a hard time for locking condoms up and making any one who wishes to purchase said condoms ask a store employee to get them.

Special interest groups say it is racist and a health risk. Some "kids" are embarrassed about asking a store employee to get them.

This area of Dorchester being a high single parent neighborhood is shockingly also a high crime area. So merchandise needs to be locked up. This a no brainer, no complaining is necessary. If you are not mature enough to ask someone to hand you a pack of condoms, YOU are not mature enough to use said condoms. Unless you are in a ghetto water balloon fight.

3. Whoever Michael Phelps smoked weed with were arrested and the house was searched. "A small amount of marijuana was found " and the only questions asked were about Phelps. Nothing about where the pot came from was even brought up. Awesome waste of resources South Carolina. Why is weed still illegal? This situation is so ridiculous and blown out of proportion it is mind blowing. I am speechless.

4. Bud Selig says A-Rod "shamed the game". Guess what pal so have you. Selig's incompetency is right up there with A-Rod's post season performance. This guy is the anti-Midas of baseball. Everything he touches turns into a giant pile of Sunday morning BUD MUD. Seriously Bud you have had as big a role in embarrassing baseball as any player. Take a look in the mirror. This is the one time he should do nothing, instead he makes a massively hypocritical statement.

(BTW, Scott Van Pelt is going to suspended from ESPN radio for saying Selig is a "pimp ". Which should be fine if you like interesting radio. Since ESPN has a 2 billion dollar deal with MLB, that's a big no no. I would add more on this but I am tired)

That is four situations from today alone and I was barely paying attention. How much more nonsense is out there? All of these situations should and could be solved with a shoulder shrug and walk away quietly. Most people handle these types of situations this way. The ones that don't have the right to be whiny douches. If you are one these types that has to say something, just know most of us hate you. Not because you are different. It is that you are an obnoxious, self righteous ass, who worships at the altar of "look at me trying to be important". Real people with real problems don't give two shits about stuff that offends us. We go that's stupid I am going to find stuff I like. Get over it, try and get something relevant accomplished.

Why I hate baseball

A-rod sucks. He sucked before he got caught doing steroids, he isn't going to be any better now. If he somehow works his way into a successful season, it will not matter. He did steroids x-amount of years ago. He can't win.... ever. It is over for him, at no point will he ever, ever be able to have a legitimate successful career. From now on he is Alex Rodriguez the half a billionaire who did steroids.

   All that being said, I don't even care if he does steroids or not. I kind of feel bad for him. For a couple reasons: 

1. He is 1 of like 15% of the league. He is just the only one whose name when you hear it, you stop listening (or start listening, I am not sure). I am sure this is to due to his ridiculous contract and natural talent. Yes, A-rod might be with or without steroids the most naturally gifted ball player of this generation. Only, he doesn't deserve to be the only one called out when 103 other guys were doing the same exact thing.

2. Alex for all his talent clearly does not have the capacity mentally to handle all his gifts. I am sure all that cash softens the blow, but he can never reach his ultimate goals. A-rod is like Matt Damon in GOOD WILL HUNTING, before Robin Williams enlightens him. The only difference is that A-rod will never have a mentor like Sean Maguire. Scott Boras would be the MIT professor and you would have thought Joe Torre is Maguire. With that new book, it is clearly not the case. A-Rod's ego is like a gigantic balloons, it is so big, it can burst anytime. 

So anyway baseball sucks. It is boring as all hell. It is back round noise. It is really only good live, or in October. I don't know how people in cities that have perpetually losing teams deal with it. I still watch baseball for some reason and probably always will.

The people who cover baseball are such hypocrites. They cover steroids almost as much as they covered Big Mac and Sammy in the magical summer of '98. Cal Ripken's streak got a little heat, but really that summer of of chasing Maris was when baseball got huge again.  ESPN, FOX, Sports Illustrated and newspapers were so hot for homers they clearly over looked  how these guys turned into mutants. Now all they want is to tear a superstar down. Regular Joes who fail a test get  a tiny blurb. But a "face of  the game" gets round the clock coverage. It is B.S. The same goes for the owners turning a blind eye to steroid use, while making money hand over fist But that has been beaten into the ground. 

  

Are they going to cancel any games a known user was in? Not likely. They were official games. Therefore they are official stats. Therefore the numbers count. So if you write for a paper you get to use your moral authority deciding these guys legacies. If you don't find a wart during their career you get 5 more years to uncover something, anything to bring this guy down. The people that cover baseball seem to be looking for anything to besmirch any accomplishment. Damn you Greg Maddux! The people who write about baseball and vote for the Hall of Fame are like scorned high school dorks or failed film makers or musicians. They spend all their energy tearing down anyone who has accomplished what they always wanted. 

Steroids were  illegal, they likely shouldn't have been used. They most certainly and obviously were used. Old time ball players weren't the greatest group of fellows either.  They were drunks, bigots, violent wife beaters and adulterers . They used some form of speed and/ or anything they could to get ahead. Just think of all the stuff they did back then that would get those guys thrown in jail now and certainly suspended from MLB. And it was all perfectly acceptable then. So I don't want to wake up tomorrow and read about Johnny Superstar and what he did wrong. I just want to watch some hammer-head swing club at some stuffed leather. They are human beings and they are good at what they do. Their salaries just like bankers, government officials and movie stars set them up nice for the future, but also afford them many more opportunities to screw up. Which in turn allows Judgy McWriterton to go over everything they have ever done with a fine tooth comb and magnifying glass and point and scream at the hint of a flaw. 

Maybe, I don't hate baseball, maybe I should watch the game on mute, read a book and turn in my red Sox nation card.