Spoiled brat???? Where did you come up with that? He wasn't raised
wealthy? Now because your parents can put you through college you are a
silver spooner? Isn't the point of raising children to give them
opportunities we didn't have? My information about Ike's upbringing is
completely different from yours.
I don't mean to keep attacking your posts, and if you don't like Ike,
that is great, but you should really be accurate with your attacks.

The moral decay of society is caused by the "Old Timers" writing us off
because we do things differently than they do, therefore creating
tension and attitude on both sides of the ball. Nobody owes anyone
respect, I don't have to respect you just because you are older than me,
and you don't have to respect me at all. It has to be earned both ways,
but now days it is easier to just write someone off, rather than
seeing the good side of what they are offering, so the gap continues to
widen.
Just like the soccer mom's who don't want to keep score because it hurts
their kid's feelings when they lose. Guess what, that isn't real life,
people win, and people lose, the winners feel good, and the losers
should be figuring out why they lost and start preparing for their next
chance at winning.
My point being, don't write off everything Ike has accomplished just
because of a 10 second clip you saw on TV and a little piece Bassmasters
did on him showing what a prick he is (hey guess what, they benefit from
him being a bad guy). My opinion, the problem with morals, values,
whatever is the fact that a lot of people do not point the finger at
themselves, it is so easy to blame T.O. and Ike for the lack of morals
in society and therefore condemn a whole generation, as they are
glorified over and over and over again on all the media outlets.

Chris
Damifino wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
I agree with js about the behavior of the classic.
Must be a deep south thing. Professional bass people have always
had class because there was little money in fishing and they did it
because they loved it.

I could probably have handled the distruction of the running light
since he is generally viewed as a high energy person, but throwing dead
fish back was totally unethical in my book.


I agree js.. There's a difference though between high energy and being
spoiled. The news said there is so much "pressure" on the fishermen in that
particular tournament that it caused his behavior to be the way it
was....(The same media in this land that says the reason Foley wanted sex
with underage boys is because he was abused and had a drinking problem). So
that gave IKE an excuse anyway....

I live in Alabama on Lay Lake, the lake Yelas won the classic on as well as
the classic being held here again in 2007. A lot of your "old school"
professionals are southerners.. Denny Brauer was a brick mason before
becoming a fisherman...(That's probably what's wrong with his back!). Bill
Dance of course needs no introduction. Ray Scott is still involved with a
lot of events involving fishing and still lives on that immaculate land in
south Alabama and the list goes on.....

Times are changing in our world and the "old timers" with their values and
morals are dying away and taking them to the grave with them. IKE is a good
example of a spoiled brat who probably hasn't worked a hard days work in his
life...

At least Forest Woods done the right thing regardless of what it cost's him.