The Bases are Loaded (and so are the Players)
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2007 Smash Records
http://www.drblt.net/music/BasesR2.mp3

His dad got him the steroids?  Wow, way to narc out your family on national television, dude, I used to have some respect for you.

Like so many of my songs, I don’t know whether the end result will be “strike three,” a “foul ball” or a home run, but I’ve stepped up to the plate, and I’m getting ready to swing.

Hmm. It ALMOST sounds like you’re saying that ethics or the lack thereof in a given population are determined to a large degree by geographics.

That, my friend, is something I have a hard time accepting.

I know people from this coast who are deeply moral, ethical people. And I know at least one guy from Missouri who’s an utter creep. He’s up in pelican bay serving 10, in fact…

mikey

I think that is the problem Barry created by his personality. I was geared up to watch the event, and I did. Hell, I’ve bought tickets to ball games JUST to see Bonds hit a homer (and he did; it was cool), but when the moment hit I was like, “oh. Well, I guess that’s it, then.”

Frankly watching Roger plunk Alex Rios in defense of A-Rod was more exciting to me than Bonds’ homer. I didn’t think I would be uninterested BEFORE it happened, but that’s the way it worked out. It’s not the roids; it’s the fact that’s he’s a pompous, self-important, hypocritical asshole, and he always has been.

I can’t wait until it’s broken by A-Rod, Albert, or whomever else.

Nope. Not everyone is like Giants fans. St. Louis is basically disowning McGwire, even trying to get the highway they named after him renamed. The principled anti-cheating folks are in their baseball lives Cardinals fans, Yankees fans, Orioles fans, Cubs fans, even a few A’s fans, etc. Just because some people can’t see beyond their own (perpetually mediocre) team for the good of the sport, doesn’t mean everyone else does.

I just don’t get it.

Of course they would, but that’s not really evidence of anything. I mean, I’d be proud as all hell right now if Barry Bonds were my son, too. Projecting a situation onto your hometown team subtracts objectivity, it doesn’t add it.

It’s on my TV. It’s entertainment. I LIKE baseball. I don’t WORSHIP baseball. This concept of “Teh sanctity of the game” is not only imaginary, it borders on mental illness. If you couldn’t enjoy the high theater that was the fifth inning last night by the bay, under the lights, the emotion, the passion, the RUSH, well, then I question whether you are truly a sports fan, rather than perhaps a wannabe statistician?

Rhetorical question for all the bonds haters. And I don’t really wanna hear your answer, because I suspect you’ll be dishonest with yourself. But ask yourself the question, and privately reflect on the possible answers:

What if Barry came to MY team in ‘93? What if he’d been the centerpiece of the Red Sox, or the Royals, or the Reds, or the Mariners all those years? Is it just even a TINY bit possible you’d feel differently?

Oh, and let’s bear in mind that there’s at least a pretty good possibility that when a-Rod breaks the record (if he can stay healthy – a big if, just look at Griffey) he’ll be wearing…

…Wait for it…

A San Francisco Giants Uniform…

mikey

The NFL World League / Europe endeavor was a total fiasco, and demonstrated conclusively that no one overseas cares about American football. How did this affect me, as an American football fan? Not one fucking iota. I couldn’t care less whether Europeans want to watch the sport or not. I was never even minutely invested in the success of that league. It has no impact on me or the enjoyment that I get out of the game. I CERTAINLY don’t need to troll around the internet with a pissy little chip on my shoulder, self-righteously whining about people who don’t appreciate the greatness of my sport. Who gives a fuck? Watch your soccer–nobody’s stopping you from doing that. The American public doesn’t owe your sport any more attention than you owe American sports.

I love soccer but please take your Euro-pretension and… well, you know.

Bart:”How come you never took us to a soccer game, dad?”
Homer:”I…. don’t know.”

American sports aren’t “stupid”, just different. Any sport that requires skill and discipline, when played by the most skilled and disciplined, is watchable … I’ve enjoyed watching badminton matches in the past.

There’s also the fact that I have absolutely no sense of belonging to Tottenham or any other Premiership club, or to any other club around the world. I can only enjoy soccer as a detached observer, which is nothing compared to following my home teams.

But, yeah, soccer’s awesome. There’s plenty of room for other sports, though.

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I keep forgetting that 0-0 draws between Bolton Wanderers and Fulham are supposed to be some kind of high art.