Foul Ball! Steroids, Baseball, and Hypocrisy

There are three things that you just don't mess with in America. They are--in no particular order--kids, dogs, and baseball.  Child molesters that are exposed to the general population in prison are assured of certain death.  Mistreatment of a dog invites scorn and contempt, although that is now under question with the NFL's attempted beatification of Michael Vick.  And please note that the American people take their baseball very, very seriously. 

There is a widespread misconception among baseball fans that Major League Baseball (MLB) is the only sport that is pure and pristine.  NBA players are considered gangsta' thugs. Rush Limbaugh once described quite accurately that a typical NFL game sometimes resembles a fight between the Crips and the Bloods.  But, baseball fans conveniently forget about the "Black Sox" scandal, the Pete Rose gambling scandal (more on that below), the use of greenies, spitballs, and the collusion among club owners to avoid competitive bidding for players' services. Yet baseball fans are outraged at steroid use in baseball.  ("I'm shocked, shocked that there is drug use in Major League Baseball!")

In an interview with Bob Costas, Mark McGwire finally admitted steroid use, confirming what was probably the worst kept secret in the history of humankind.  McGwire, between crocodile tears, claimed that he used steroids only for health purposes although an FBI informant claims otherwise.   McGwire was recently hired to be the hitting instructor for the St.Louis Cardinals.  Cardinal Manager Tony LaRussa stands by his man claiming that McGwire would have hit all those home runs without steroids.  Yeah, and Dave Kingman hit for average.

Maybe there was a pang of guilt, but in reality McGwire was probably testing the waters to see if baseball would accept his return.  McGwire has been under the radar since his retirement in 2001, thus avoiding the scorn and contempt experienced by Barry Bonds.  Bonds has been essentially ostracized from MLB since 2007, with no AL team needing a power-hitting DH with bad knees.  Bonds is also under indictment for perjury.  The trial has been indefinitely postponed. Other steroid users haven't fared much better.  There is the indefinite suspension by MLB of Rafael Palmiero following his finger waving testimony before Congress.  Another player in steroid limbo is Roger Clemens who continues to be investigated by the Department of Justice for perjury.  Sammy Sosa, despite being named as one of the 103 players that tested positive for steroid use, calmly waits--as he believes--for his induction into the Hall of Fame.

By cutting a deal with Congress before his testimony before his testimony, McGwire, until his tearful confession has avoided any consequences of his steroid use.  But who knows what McGwire gave the "Honorable Gentlepersons" of the Congress [sic]  in exchange for his testimony?  For some reason, McGwire has received kid glove treatment all of these years while others have paid in one way or another for using performance enhancing drugs.  Steven A. Smith expressed his contempt for McGwire on the January 12th broadcast of his Fox Sports show.  The elephant in the room was that McGwire was given preferential treatment because he is White as opposed to the treatment that Barry Bonds has endured.  It's not clear whether the race victim card applies here, but it is odd that McGwire got a Congressional deal that others didn't get.  What is really laughable is that perhaps the most crooked Congress--(read Democrats)--in American history self-righteously deigns to judge alleged steroid users.     

Many fans still question the continued suspension of Pete Rose for gambling on baseball.  A USA Today/Gallup poll showed that 75 percent of more than 1,000 Americans surveyed think that player use of performance-enhancing drugs is more serious than Rose's gambling offense. The same poll shows that support for Rose's Hall of Fame eligibility has not changed in 20 years--60 percent favor it and 35 percent are opposed to make Rose eligible.  Whatever Rose was, he gave his all on the field and never considered any alternative to winning. He was known as Charlie Hustle because of that quality.  While reprehensible on its face, knowing how competitive Rose was, it is believable that he would bet on his own team.  But it was still wrong to gamble on baseball.  My über-smart Sister once told me that, "If it's wrong on Monday then it's wrong the rest of the week." 
  

But all of these barroom and squawk radio discussions about relative filth miss the point.  Both gambling and steroid use compromise the integrity of the game.  Otherwise, why not evolve into sports entertainment like the WWE?  That's because although we may know the probable outcome of a WWE wrestling match and that some of the wrestler's bodies may be "enhanced," we're still entertained.  FYI, there are fans of wrestling that are called "smarks" that are fans that enjoy pro wrestling despite or because they know that it is staged.  But Americans enjoy a wide range of entertainment options and know how to put things in their proper perspective.  The only time they get angry is when there's a misrepresentation of the product that they've spent their hard earned dollars on.  This is the emotion behind the anger toward Tiger Woods who was misrepresented as a clean-cut guy but who turned out in reality to be Tiger Woody.  From all this, perhaps even Barack Obama might experience a "teachable moment" and reconsider his misrepresentation that he is a moderate.  But knowing how arrogant he is and that he is Soros' puppet, it's doubtful that he would ever be open-minded enough to be truthful.  It is turning out that there is no such thing as change that we can believe in.

Destestable, Deplorable, Disgusting, Disreputable, and Downright Dirty!

Your Tax Dollars at Work...

Look at this video clip and you'll easily see why the Democrook controlled Congress has such low approval ratings. After viewing this YouTube gem it's no wonder that Obama seeks legislation to control the Internet and talk radio. These so-called Solons are little more that greedy, overpaid, egotistical windbags. Yet they've given themselves yet another raise in the form of an extra $93,000 in "petty cash" to spend as an office expens. Meanwhile, they have the audacity of a dope to tell private corporations to limit their bonuses and cut down on perquisites, i.e., perks, and Gulfstream jets. Just recently, their attempt to buy several Gulfstream jets for Congressional [mis]use thwarted by the alternative media talk radio, the Internet, the cable news networks. A Mandarin by any other name is detestable.

Wah, Wah, Wah! Democrats cry crocodile tears.

Hypocrisy is nothing new or unique to Washington D.C.  However, the Democrat furor over Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst during Obama's health care address before a joint session of Congress would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.  Wilson accurately called Obama a liar. So what!? The Democrats think that no one  remembers the boos that greeted George Bush when he said that Social Security would be broke by 2042 in his 2005 State of the Union address.

After eight years of listening to political ridglings like Sen. Harry Reid call George Bush "a loser" and a "liar" in front of school children, Democrats have little or no credibility with regard to decorum.  The unity that happened following 9/11 lasted about two weeks until the Democrats reverted to their usual douche bag ways critcizing Bush's lack of action regarding Afghanistan.  After Bush attacked Afghanistan the Democrats attacked him for doing that.

All Joe Wilson did was to tell the truth that Obama is lying about illegal aliens not being eligible for ObamaCare.  It's in at least one of the draft health care bills floating around. Of course it's a poorly kept secret that illegal aliens are a big part of the Democrat voter base. So when the health care rationing begins; watch old people be denied coverage while erstwhile non-citizen voters receive health care.  The race card is being played by the Democrats with the assertion that any disagreement with Obama is racist.    Democrats are deplorable.

Is this thing on?  (tap...tap)

Disgusting doesn't quite cover it with regard to California Assemblyman Mike Duvall's (Yorba Linda - R) antics.  A married man, whose  sexually explicit remarks about his sexual conquests were inadvertently broadcast over an open microphone has abruptly resigned from office. Legislative leaders stripped him of his committee posts and launched an ethics probe of his actions.  The only redeeming thing that he did was to resign, were it a Democrat that had done the disgusting deed it would have been a resume enhancement for most Democrats that are morally inert.  Not only was the bragging ungentlemanly, especially since it may have been untrue with regard to the female lobbyist, but it was simply crude, lewd, and disgusting.

Keith Olbermann is the Worst Liberal-Fascist Person in the World

The worst Liberal-Fascist person in the world is spreading more "journalistic" (sic) manure by calling for anyone in his audience of 500 basement dwellers to get "dirt" on Glenn Beck.  Beck is the squawk radio guy that almost single handedly got Commie racist Czar, Van Jones to resign.  Apparently the resignation of Van Jones, self described Communist and overt racist has rankled the feelings of the often idiotic leftist Olbermann.  Olbermann, with his track record of stupid remarks and even stupider actions is a non-credible critic of anyone.  But seeking to please his neo-com masters, the MSNBC leftist toadie is going on a McCarthyite witchhunt of Glenn Beck.  (And I thought a Liberal would never be against anyone exercising their First Amendment Rights!)  Well sieg heil baby, Olbermann is just acting out his Nazi tendencies. 

He's also an ungentlemanly dipstick that frequently disses Laura Ingraham; a woman that he dated briefly in the 1990s. (Wottsa matter, Keithy baby?  Too smart of a woman for you? Did she turn your amorous advances down?)  Typical of most Liberal males he's analogous to a gelding or at best a ridgling with the inability to cope with strong smart women like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, or Laura Ingraham.


Olbermann will be looking for fresh new dirt since it is common knowledge that Beck was once a substance abuser, but that's really old news.  Olberdork, as he is affectionately known by Conservatives, seeks to take the political dialogue a notch lower, by engaging in the Liberal Fascist game of the politics of personal distruction.  Liberal Fascists can't win the battle of ideas--ever.

This would be the lowest that a Liberal has ever sunk since the 1960 West Virginia primary when then-JFK surrogate FDR, Jr., suggested that the noble Hubert H. Humphrey was a draft dodger.  It was a devasting charge against Humphrey.  Of course by 1992,  draft dodging was a resume enhancement for Bill "I loath the military but I didn't inhale" Clinton. Olbermann's tact has taken not in vigorous argument against an opponent, but instead is the eradication of political opponents.  By displaying his Liberal Fascist Soviet-like urge to purge; Olbermann is disreputible.
 

R U ready 4 scum football? 

 The NFL has begun it's season and like all entertainment enterprises has now entered the world of tabloid journalism. The dust up between Shawne Merriman and reality show diva, Tila [Nyguen] Tequila has made national headlines.  Briefly, Merriman was arrested by San Diego Sheriffs Deputies on a citizen's arrest warrant by Nyguen alleging battery and false imprisonment.  Merriman denies the charges and claims he was trying to prevent an intoxicated Tequila from driving away from his Poway, California home.  The San Diego County DA  declined to file charges against Merriman citing insufficient evidence.  Nyguen has indicated that she will pursue civil charges against Merriman.  TMZ has exclusive fotos showing brusing on Ms Nyguen's arms, which may prompt an out of court settlement.  Both parties deserve each other and definitely qualify as downright dirty.