i hate baseball..

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:

snipage

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.


Too true. Unfortunatly, if you build it, they will come.

Russell
One of the sheep too often.

rw:
We're talking about baseball, right?

Not entirely

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

No argument there, the minor leagues exist and draw some fan support.

Unlike football and (to a lesser degree) basketball, professional baseball
doesn't primarily recruit from colleges.

Agree again. Baseball makes no real effort to lie to fans and convince them
that the star athletes are all carrying serious academic loads and being
treated like other students on campus.

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.

I agree pretty much with that statement. But I'm damned if I know how to
open the eyes of people willing to spend a week's net income to watch a
bunch of gladiators and consume overpriced food and beer.

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Drowning flies to Darkstar

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"slenon" wrote in message om...

[snippety doo dah]

But I'm damned if I know how to
open the eyes of people willing to spend a week's net income to watch a
bunch of gladiators and consume overpriced food and beer.

And exactly why do you think you need to "open the eyes" of these
people?


Chuck Vance (Damned if I know how to open the eyes of people
willing to spend a week's net income on carbon fiber sticks and
PVC-coated string to which they attach feathers and hook, then stand
waist-deep in cold water waving the stick in an attempt to hook some
fish, only to let the fish go afterwards.)

Conan the librarian:
And exactly why do you think you need to "open the eyes" of these
people?

I don't know that I do. However, tilting at this particular windmill is as
good as any other.

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Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

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