i hate baseball..

Uh, no. Now me? I 'really' hate baseball. It bothers me that it is receiving
so much news coverage right now.

Scratch my nuts and spit.....john

....don't like football either....golf...phooey......and hoops, I hate the
hoops too....


"riverman" wrote in message
...
GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up
their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with
those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it
all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of
the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat
cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to
win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)

"asadi" wrote in message
...
Uh, no. Now me? I 'really' hate baseball. It bothers me that it is
receiving
so much news coverage right now.

Scratch my nuts and spit.....john

...don't like football either....golf...phooey......and hoops, I hate the
hoops too....


OK, but how do you feel about Slamball?

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:19:14 GMT, "Stan Gula"
wrote:

OK, but how do you feel about Slamball?

Now there's a strategy game.
--
Charlie...

Uh, no. Now me? I 'really' hate baseball. It bothers me that it is
receiving so much news coverage right no
...don't like football either....golf...phooey......and hoops, I hate the
hoops too....

To my mind, the best post of the day. Let all the professional athletes go
play with each other for no money and donate their salaries to teachers
instead.

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar
Save a cow, eat a PETA

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

God. The one you trust your budding teenage daughter to at all hours works
for a pittance, and the one you wouldn't trust you ugly arthritic
grandmother to gets paid millions. Go figure.

john
"slenon" wrote in message
. com...

Uh, no. Now me? I 'really' hate baseball. It bothers me that it is
receiving so much news coverage right no
...don't like football either....golf...phooey......and hoops, I hate the
hoops too....

To my mind, the best post of the day. Let all the professional athletes
go
play with each other for no money and donate their salaries to teachers
instead.

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar
Save a cow, eat a PETA

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

God. The one you trust your budding teenage daughter to at all hours works
for a pittance, and the one you wouldn't trust you ugly arthritic
grandmother to gets paid millions. Go figure.
john

They can't figure. That's why they all have agents.

Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and decided that peop[e who
play games professionally were heroes. We'd be better off if we took these
games out of our schools and put the money saved into books and teachers'
salaries. If the professional athletics franchises want training camps for
teenagers, let them pay for it.

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar
Save a cow, eat a PETA

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

slenon wrote:
God. The one you trust your budding teenage daughter to at all hours works
for a pittance, and the one you wouldn't trust you ugly arthritic
grandmother to gets paid millions. Go figure.
john


They can't figure. That's why they all have agents.

Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and decided that peop[e who
play games professionally were heroes. We'd be better off if we took these
games out of our schools and put the money saved into books and teachers'
salaries. If the professional athletics franchises want training camps for
teenagers, let them pay for it.

We're talking about baseball, right?

Professional baseball does and always has paid for "training camps for
teenagers." It's called the minor leagues.

Unlike football and (to a lesser degree) basketball, professional
baseball doesn't primarily recruit from colleges. If a baseball player
doesn't get recruited out of high school, he's probably not going to
make it to The Show.

I think professional athletes are entitled to all the money they can
get, just like anyone else with a special skill. It irritates the hell
out of me when I see what someone like Shaq does with his money (huge
collection of expensive cars, hunting on game farms, etc.), but the
people who are really responsible for the corruption of professional
sports are the fans who pay absurd ticket prices, and I think we might
agree on that.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

riverman wrote:

angst snipped

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)



I can't compare New Englanders' pain to other's pain, but other do feel
the pain. This from one of the Utah daily newspapers.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515039629,00.html

Russell
Who will be watching a pathetic BYU football team and not the World
Series today.