modern world.
i'm not in love with the modern world
i'm not in love with the modern world
it was a TORCH driving the SAVAGES back to the trees
modern world i'm not pleased to meet you.
you just bring me down.
and so goes the story of pacman jones, who got perhaps the biggest snow job of them all when he got arbitrarily suspended from the nfl for a year. hello? the only thing that could save this guy would be an nfl MANDATE that he play football 365 days a year. "pacman, for the good of your life, you have to play in the arena league AND nfl europe AND the nfl." throwing this guy to the modern world is BS, and goodell should know that.
still, the details of jones' activities at las vegas are troubling: slamming a stripper's head against the stage? why $81,000? also of note: both nelly and jermaine dupri were sitting with pacman's VIP section.
WHO REALLY CARES.
i'm not going to make any racially themed comments on this blog, mainly because ESPN is pushing some outrageous sort of social awareness campaign that kind of upsets me in an "i don't really give a crap" sort of way.
jeff pearlman is mad that bonds is wearing "42" to honor jackie robinson. i'm mad too, mainly because i could care less.
bonds is a hall-of-famer that we should respect, i suppose. i personally hope that he is not able to be found guilty of taking steroids, as i am always a fan of the "deny, deny, deny" strategy. nothing would make me happier from a statistical perspective than to see bonds go to the hall with a number of questionable records that have no asterisks. that would be fantastic.
by the way, has anyone checked out bonds's stats for this year? pretty good stuff.
should don imus have been canned? yes, in the "let's pretend we care about women's basketball" sort of way. when the wnba invariably folds, don imus will get a pretty big kick out of it, i think. i fail to see how don imus is a worse human being than bill o'reilly, however.
hey, don, at least you didn't have to cough up 2 to 10 mil. out of court.
lost in all of this: the fact that rutgers got let off the hook for playing absolutely HORRENDOUSLY against tennessee in the title game. c. vivian stringer got outcoached (rather substantially), as rutgers never made any rebounding adjustments (tennessee got 23 offensive boards, and rutgers never stepped up the defensive tempo), as tennessee won by 13 despite shooting 34.5 percent. if the lady vols had been able to hit the broad side of a barn, i suspect rutgers would have been run out of town. stringer also made the mistake of playing a starter for 26 minutes who took no shots; that is tantamount to playing four-on-five on the offensive end, which has to be somewhat inexcusable in a title game.
i say this noting that rutgers had an excellent season and an excellent team strategy, a strategy which actually worked quite well until the UT game.
alright, before i get myself into too much trouble here, i better leave the internet for the more well-spoken.
i'm not in love with the modern world
it was a TORCH driving the SAVAGES back to the trees
modern world i'm not pleased to meet you.
you just bring me down.
and so goes the story of pacman jones, who got perhaps the biggest snow job of them all when he got arbitrarily suspended from the nfl for a year. hello? the only thing that could save this guy would be an nfl MANDATE that he play football 365 days a year. "pacman, for the good of your life, you have to play in the arena league AND nfl europe AND the nfl." throwing this guy to the modern world is BS, and goodell should know that.
still, the details of jones' activities at las vegas are troubling: slamming a stripper's head against the stage? why $81,000? also of note: both nelly and jermaine dupri were sitting with pacman's VIP section.
WHO REALLY CARES.
i'm not going to make any racially themed comments on this blog, mainly because ESPN is pushing some outrageous sort of social awareness campaign that kind of upsets me in an "i don't really give a crap" sort of way.
jeff pearlman is mad that bonds is wearing "42" to honor jackie robinson. i'm mad too, mainly because i could care less.
bonds is a hall-of-famer that we should respect, i suppose. i personally hope that he is not able to be found guilty of taking steroids, as i am always a fan of the "deny, deny, deny" strategy. nothing would make me happier from a statistical perspective than to see bonds go to the hall with a number of questionable records that have no asterisks. that would be fantastic.
by the way, has anyone checked out bonds's stats for this year? pretty good stuff.
should don imus have been canned? yes, in the "let's pretend we care about women's basketball" sort of way. when the wnba invariably folds, don imus will get a pretty big kick out of it, i think. i fail to see how don imus is a worse human being than bill o'reilly, however.
hey, don, at least you didn't have to cough up 2 to 10 mil. out of court.
lost in all of this: the fact that rutgers got let off the hook for playing absolutely HORRENDOUSLY against tennessee in the title game. c. vivian stringer got outcoached (rather substantially), as rutgers never made any rebounding adjustments (tennessee got 23 offensive boards, and rutgers never stepped up the defensive tempo), as tennessee won by 13 despite shooting 34.5 percent. if the lady vols had been able to hit the broad side of a barn, i suspect rutgers would have been run out of town. stringer also made the mistake of playing a starter for 26 minutes who took no shots; that is tantamount to playing four-on-five on the offensive end, which has to be somewhat inexcusable in a title game.
i say this noting that rutgers had an excellent season and an excellent team strategy, a strategy which actually worked quite well until the UT game.
alright, before i get myself into too much trouble here, i better leave the internet for the more well-spoken.
posted by mike at 3:23 PM
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Maybe it's because I'm white and semi-affluent, but I had the following initial reaction to both the Imus and Pacman Jones situations:
A chortle... followed by a double take... followed by a full on bout of laughter.
No matter how offensive it was, the judgement of the individuals involved in both cases was sooooo off the charts bad - I mean, we can replay the Imus incident fram by frame on YouTube and pinpoint the exact moment he lost his job... I wish we had similar footage of Pacman Jones - that I thought that ESPN had started getting scoops from The Onion.
Now this was an initial reaction... and after learning details about how this has affected three people that got shot at a nightclub in Vegas and how it "affected" the Rutgers women's basketball team, I learned I was a bad person for laughing at people's misfortune. Sometimes it's fun to feel like a bad person... if you're every up for it, look up Speak the Hungarian Rapper on YouTube.
Unfortunately in this modern world of ours, there has to be "raminifications" and such... I have no problem with the fates of Imus and Jones. They got what they deserved. I'll let the affected parties come to terms with what happened. I wish someone could say definitively what should happen, but alas that's impossible. All humans, judge or judged, are fallible. I choose to eschew the issue entirely and take a "Judge not lest..." stance on things and simply snicker at the ensuing carnival. In lieu of learning anything, (and I promise I will once anyone has anything to teach me) I sit and wonder what happened to AK47 of the Utah Jazz, or whether A-Rod can hit 80 HR this year, and if the Yanks could miss the playoffs just to spit A-Rod.
That's what sports is supposed to be about, right?
I'm still waiting to see how New York fans are going to figure out a way to blame A-Rod for their losses. Yeah, so he's hit 14 homers so far in April, he hasn't pitched. Idiots.
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