Monday - July 14, 2014

Germans Get The Big One

Millions of Germans took to the streets around the world last night to celebrate their team’s victory in the World Cup final.

Ecstatic crowds sang and danced throughout the night following a dramatic last-gasp winner from young German hero Mario Götze, while tears flowed in Argentina after their stars - led by talisman Lionel Messi - failed to deliver.

In the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Angela Merkel - the German Chancellor - led the celebrations by hugging the players as they went up to receive their medals and the trophy. She later enjoyed a beer with Germany’s victorious manager Joachim Low in the team’s dressing room.

Hero-of-the-hour Gotze celebrated with a kiss from his lingerie model girlfriend, while celebrities in the crowd included David Beckham - who brought sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz., all wearing Argentina strips - and Rihanna, who celebrated Germany’s victory by flashing her bra and was later seen partying with the players themselves.

Lead by WAGS, SWAGS, supermodels, and several half naked American singers in party-booty mode, a sudden influx of millions of drunk Germans overwhelmed the border crossing at Buenos Aires and caused an immediate surrender.
Finding little of value worth stealing, most went home when the Jägermeister wore off.

A stone faced Vladimir Putin made no comment.

3.2 gazillion pictures at this link.

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   Wednesday - July 09, 2014

deutschland deutschland über alles, so far

Brazil trailed Germany 1-0 with 22 minutes gone in its World Cup soccer semifinal. Seven minutes later, the host nation’s bid to win a record-extending sixth title was over after it had allowed four more goals.

“There were 10 minutes when I don’t know what happened,” Brazil defender Marcelo told reporters after yesterday’s game in Belo Horizonte. “Today was the worst day of our lives. The Brazilian people have every right to criticize us.”

Germany won the most lopsided World Cup semifinal 7-1. The worst defeat in Brazilian history was also the biggest loss for a tournament host. The rout ended a run of 63 competitive matches at home without a defeat for Brazil, going back to 1975.

“It’s very difficult to explain right now,” David Luiz, who captained Brazil in the absence of the suspended Thiago Silva, told reporters. “The dream is over in a way that the people didn’t want.”

Perhaps the biggest statistical surprise is that the win wasn’t Germany’s best at the World Cup. It defeated Saudi Arabia 8-0 at the 2002 edition, before going on to the final, where it lost 2-0 to Brazil.

Germany, which won the most recent of its three titles in 1990, advances to a record eighth World Cup final on July 13 in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium against two-time winner Argentina or the Netherlands, who play today.

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   Thursday - June 26, 2014

Ann Coulter on Soccer

AMERICA’S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER

(7) It’s foreign. In fact, that’s the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not “catching on” at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

Update: Thanks Vilmar!

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   Wednesday - June 25, 2014

I ain’t gonna watch

Despite the 24-7 “world cup” soccer motif at Google, despite the internet being overrun with “soccer babes” wearing national colors and little else, despite my XFINITY cable TV going on at me about the games non-stop ... I’m not going to watch a single game. Not even in recap.

You see, 86 gazillion people are watching this shiz. In Denmark, in Norway, in Ireland, in France, in Germany, in Turkey, in Belize, and so forth. In the UK too, guaranteed. In India, no doubt.

I pay - and quite a lot, thank you - for top of the line High Definition cable television.

And I live in the United States of America.

So why the fudge is XFINITY forcing me to watch live game coverage in Spanish?

Do I fucking look like god damn Juan Fucking Valdez to you? Or his donkey?

I am sure that there is a live feed in English. Period.

Don’t give me that habla bullshit. 

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   Monday - May 12, 2014

Can’t Touch This

A different sort of Hammer Time

Oh oh ooh oh oh. Can’t touch this!

Free speech? What the hell is that? The right to express your opinions in public without punishment? Are you kidding me??

Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones was fined an undisclosed amount Sunday and will undergo educational training after sending a negative tweet about Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be selected in the NFL draft.

Shortly after the St. Louis Rams took Sam in the seventh round Saturday, Jones tweeted “OMG” and “Horrible.” The tweets were taken down a short time later.

Jones apologized for his comments Sunday and described them as inappropriate. The Dolphins said Jones has been excused from all team activities until he completes training related to his comments.

“We were disappointed to read Don’s tweets,” coach Joe Philbin said in a statement. “They were inappropriate and unacceptable, and we regret the negative impact these comments had on such an important weekend for the NFL. We met with Don today about respect, discrimination and judgment. These comments are not consistent with the values and standards of our program.”

The Dolphins reacted swiftly to Jones’ comments in the wake of the team’s bullying scandal last year, which embarrassed the NFL and prompted a nationwide debate about workplace harassment.

Jones said he regretted that his tweets took away from Sam’s “draft moment.”

I wonder ... since this guys performance at the pro level is barely marginal at this point ... will criticizing him now be a hate crime? I gonna laff my ass of if it is; WTF, no white person can criticize a black person’s job performance regardless of profession, without automatically being a raycis. I can’t wait until all the black pro athletes start getting fined up and down for criticizing this guy. Who is also black. And whose numbers aren’t that great yet. But he’s gaaaaay. Gay gay gaaaay!  Now all of them will have to find out what life is like under PC, because for the most part they’ve been given a pass so far. But gay. Gay!! And thus the only people allowed to question his relevance ... will be black muslims. Hey, check it out, Lois Farrakhan is now doing the play by play on Monday Night Football!! As if.

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   Wednesday - February 12, 2014

22 years later, a picture surfaces

No, that isn’t me. But I built that wheeled equipment closet seen in the background. By myself, with hand tools. Outside in the garage. In the dead of winter. In 1992. Ok, Tom helped a little, and provided his truck to move it. 12 heavy bolts would detach the plywood sides, doors, and lid, neatly stacking up 6 parts on the wheeled base for easy transport in a pickup truck. Shelves inside for masks and scoring machines, and a gorgeous brass coat bar to hold all the jackets and lames. A dozen weapons hung inside each door. Rolled up on top were 2 antique woven bronze pistes that we’d rescued, repaired, and put back in use. And with the box’s massive hasps and screwed and glued 2x4 bracing it was secure, and held all our gear for at least a decade until ... well, never mind. Nothing lasts forever. But that picture is from 2004, so my physical legacy lasted at least that long. Guess nobody ever got around to painting it.

remember when these things were the shizz?
I loved them because they didn’t electrocute you like the antique relay machines did

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   Monday - February 03, 2014

Half A Bowl Game Is Better Than None

Seahawks Trounce Broncos 43-8

What an amazing game. One for the record books I’m sure. The Seattle Seahaks showed up to play football, and I think the Denver Broncos showed up ready to play beer pong. All the media hype turned out to be pure hot air straight from the farmyard. This was the most one sided, laughable game I think I’ve ever seen in the pros. The Broncos seemed dazed, confused, and lethargic throughout most of the game, whereas the Seahawks were wound up and going 120mph all day. This was one of the quickest ball games I’ve seen in a long while, with lots and lots of plays stuck in between the endless blocks of commercials. My God. Stop with all the damn commercials every 90 seconds. PLEASE.

The Hype: Seahawks aces at defense, but maybe not so great on the offense. Broncos super on the offense, but maybe not so marvelous at defense. The reality: Seahawks show that the best defense is a good offense, Broncos show ... not much at all.

The Seahawks were ranked first in the league in pass defense, total defense and scoring defense during the regular season. The Broncos were first in pass offense, total offense and scoring offense. Manning had the most prolific season ever for an NFL quarterback. He set season records with his 5,477 passing yards and 55 touchdown passes and is virtually assured of winning his fifth MVP award. [which he did. Yay.]

I didn’t even get a chance to get all the beers open after the kickoff before Seattle scored, shoveling up a loose ball snapped way over Manning’s head, into the Bronc’s end zone for a fast 2 point safety. WTH? And the ‘hawks were on the board, within 12 seconds of play. Amazing. And the whole game was like that. Relentless. Textbook. A first rank pro team playing a Tier III high school team. Say what? The mighty Broncos, Kings Of Offense, couldn’t connect for beans, couldn’t run the ball anywhere, got intercepted left and right ... actually their best play was on the defensive offense, protecting Manning their QB, who didn’t get sacked once the entire game, and often seemed to have hours per play to figure out who to throw the ball to (so they could drop it, bumble it, get intercepted, or be in the wrong place again). He was extremely well protected; good football right there. But as for the rest ...

OMG.

I was a little fearful that this year’s Bowl would be a repeat of last years’ game, in which one team would utterly dominate the first half, then suddenly shut off just like a light switch to allow the other team to strut in the second half, going for “the big comeback”. There was no comeback here today, big or small. Seattle closed out the first half with a giant interception, sensational Malcom Smith getting the pigskin and running 3/4 the length of the field while dodging what seemed to be the entire Broncos team.  22-0.

After a short, and rather unimpressive Half Time show, which included an awful lot of yadda-yadda from the Old Guys From Monday Night, play resumed with yet another touchdown run, the ‘hawks Percy Harvin taking the floater kickoff on the 13 and lackadaisically jogging down the whole field for a TD.  I swear I could hear him laughing the whole way. This was play time for him. Extra point made it 29-0. And then, why not, after stopping the Broncos once more, the Seahawks scored another touchdown. 36-0.

Then it was time for a little sympathy sex, a bow to the bookies to make sure no SuperBowl is a complete shutout. The Broncos chugged the ball down the field and finally got across the goal line late in the 3rd. Then in a desperate play to get something on the score board, they went for a 2 point conversion.  This may have been a smart move, because we saw at least once in this game that the ‘hawks could just reach up and block their kicks at will. So a rather lame play gave them an extra 2, 36-8, and that was the first and last scores they had.

Another TD by the Seahawks was just icing on the cake, and by late in the 3rd period they pretty much stopped trying. There was nothing the Broncos could do and they knew it, so the 4th quarter was kind of ploddy and limp. They’d bought into the media hype that there were dominant. They didn’t bring their A game. They seemed hung over and exhausted all night. The ‘hawks utterly psyched them out by playing speedball and by showing the the Great Defenders best defense was a superb offense.

Malcom Smith got MVP, which was well deserved. Personally, the talent that wowed me the most was the Seahawk’s kicker, Steven Hauschka, who has to have one of the best feet in the game. It wasn’t that he made every field goal he attempted, racking up early points for the Seahawks. It’s that the guy has power and accuracy like a new Winchester; those kicks went right down the middle each time. And when it came to kickoffs, the guy consistently put the ball in the enemy end zone from his own 35, time after time, right under the goal posts. At least once he actually bounced the ball off the cross bars; it’s pretty obvious he could make field goals from 65 yards if necessary, maybe 70 with a bit of tailwind. 55-60 yards would be no challenge at all for him. I don’t watch my ‘ball these days, so maybe that’s common nowadays. But it impressed me.

From sharper pens than mine:

Seattle 43, Denver 8. Peyton Manning’s big game legacy: Doomed.

This is perhaps the most telling statistic to emerge from Super Bowl XLVIII and why the Seahawks won it: Denver had the best offense in football but after the first quarter the Broncos had accumulated zero first downs and had run just seven plays for 11 yards. The Seahawks made a statement and that statement was, “We are whipping your butt.”

The Broncos’ response was to let them.

Seattle’s steamrolling proceeded in bloodied and brutal increments: 2-0, then 5-0, then 8-0, and soon it was 22-0 and by the third quarter that Seahawks defense, with some help from special teams and the offense, had a 36-0 lead.

New Jersey cooperated with the weather, heating up for the warmest two days we’ve had since before Christmas. So now all the Super Bowl people have gone home, and we can get back to sub-freezing temps and another snow storm.

A better game recap than I can do, here.

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   Tuesday - January 28, 2014

There are no winners in this game. No losers either on points scored. just the children

I didn’t expect to be posting today, thought I’d be recuperating from an uncomfortable exam at the hosp. clinic.  But my fears were groundless and the lady who did the work was very good, and a credit to the Winchester hosp.  I have found a goodly number of extremely professional, caring, and friendly people here, in spite of the everyday bad news about incompetent practitioners in the NHS.  I don’t doubt there are many as there would be everywhere. But mostly the people I have encountered here are top drawer.

So, came back to house and attacked the fridge and brought food to table and started to read the following, losing my appetite in the process.

This is an old story in a remake of an older movie. In other words, although this bit of insanity has been reported before, and since not a lot has been written about it in awhile, I had no idea the monster was still alive.  My gosh how can reasonably well educated people in positions of authority, wallow in this bizarre and senseless thinking?  Here’s what I’m banging on about. Take a look.

How will youngsters learn about life if we don’t let them win (and lose) at games?

By Colin Dunne

The old boys with the crumpled ears, the knackered knees and the Mike Tindall noses will be weeping into their pints. Their game, rugby, which is possibly the last area of life where you can find Real Men, has finally been seized by the politically correct.

Surrey Rugby are insisting that their ‘mini rugby’ teams, for children aged six to 11, must be of mixed ability — no ‘A’ and ‘B’ squads here — and that any team that is winning too easily must be deliberately weakened by having better players moved elsewhere. There must be no overall winners in the junior league.

No winners? That’s right. Hence no losers either. Every game must be declared a draw. Difficult to strap your boots on with any enthusiasm for a game that has an unsatisfactory result before you even start.

You can imagine the muttering in club bars about how this, once the most manly of games, is going soft: ‘They’ll be wearing hard hats and hi-viz jackets next.’

You can see why they’re worried. Rugby has suffered some grievous blows in recent years. We old hands smiled scornfully when women and girls started playing. Then, most annoyingly, they turned out to be rather good at it.

Puritans rolled their eyes when children learning the game were encouraged to play ‘touch rugby’, which does not allow aggressively physical tackles, and then when ‘tag rugby’ was introduced, in which players have to pull a Velcro tag from the ball carrier — before playing it as a full contact sport.
And now this.

The idea behind Surrey Rugby’s new wheeze is presumably to save the kids from the psychological damage that might be caused by losing a Sunday morning game.

It’s the same thinking which lay behind the firing of Justin Byrne, an under-tens football coach in Buckinghamshire last month. Byrne appalled the boys’ parents by insisting that football was not about having fun and that he was ‘only interested in winning’.

The no-nonsense coach also said that parents who complained when their lad did not make the first team were ‘not doing their sons any favours’. Those who opposed him were ‘weak-minded’ and ‘think sport is about knitting’.

His draconian approach saw him fired four days after making the comments. Are we all going soft?

I used to coach mini-rugby and I can assure you that, in boys, the urge to win, run faster and bash harder than your mates is in the blood.

For many youngsters — and not just in rugby, but in football, cricket, pretty much any competitive sport — it’s as basic as breathing. And to try to curb a child’s natural exuberance on the playing field is, in my view, simply wrong.

Even if parents, teachers and coaches profess not to know who won and lost, who played well and who was rubbish, who scored and who didn’t, the children will know. And nothing will stop them saying so either. They like winning, and they enjoy having a little crow about it.

LOTS MORE TO READ HERE

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   Saturday - January 25, 2014

36 or 37 years, who cares it still sucks

I am still sick. Much better, thanks, but still a hacking chestful of mucus. Could be worse; I still ain’t dead. Actually, if it weren’t for trying to breathe, I’d be just fine. Or trying to hear; the moment the Prednisone presecription wore off, I lost my hearing. Most of it anyway. Gee, swell.

I think I’ll go back to the doctor and glare at him until he gives me another batch of medicine.

So to make things more wonderful, it’s snowing again. Snowing pretty well actually. It’s been coming down all day, and I guess by now we’ve had at least 2” of the crap. Yee ha. In theory, it’s going to warm up a bit for tomorrow ... all the way up to sub-freezing ... then drop down to the 1s and 2s again and hit us with another storm system on Tuesday.

Today is the 36th anniversary of the historic Ohio Blizzard of ‘78, which dropped record setting amounts of snow while bringing hurricane force winds. A few days later a massive snow-i-cane slammed the New England coast and brought the world there to a halt for more than a week.

The winter of 1976-1977 may have been a touch colder in the NY Metro area I grew up in, ( I recall ice skating on the local pond the week after Halloween ), but 1977-78 brought us more snow, more ice, more drifts ... more BRRRR ... than even the fabled winter of 1959-60 (when cars needed to put flags on their antennas so see each other at intersections because there was just so damned much snow on the ground). 

Either way, both years were terrible, long, brutal winters. And both were indicative of Global Cooling, because We’re All Gonna Die and it’s All America’s Fault ^™. Right. The new Ice Age.

Winter this year has generated MORE SNOW so far in the Ohio area than either of those historic seasons. The cold days got here earlier, have been colder, and have brought more snow to many areas.

The latest reports tell us how the Arctic Vortex is going to stay with us for some time, bringing freezing rotten weather all the way to Alabama and Florida, and keeping us on ice for weeks more.

And this time around, it’s all the fault of Global Warming, because We’re All Gonna Die and it’s All America’s Fault ^™. Right. The new Tropical Age.

I’m sick of it, and I’m sick of being sick.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-cold-snap-rival-horrible-winters-1970s-article-1.460241

http://back-spin.blogspot.com/2010/12/blizzards-now-evidence-of-global.html

http://www.blizzardof78.org/

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2014/01/22/Snowfall-tops-January-total-from-famous-Blizzard-of-78.html

http://www.13abc.com/story/24533599/blizzard-78-anniversary-is-sunday

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/ourhistory/2011/01/19/2-winters-for-the-ice-ages/

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/wx_events/Blizzard78/blizzard/blizzard78.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978#Aftermath_and_recovery

http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/super-bowl-weather-forecast-snow-cold-wind-new-jersey-20140125

http://deadspin.com/there-will-be-no-tailgating-at-the-super-bowl-1479757203

And now folks are getting all worried about the Superbowl, set to be played in Giants Stadium (aka MetLife stadium) here in New Jersey next week? Dummies ... this is why they built the Astrodome. Hey stupid: it’s winter. Go somewhere warm ya daft scroobie!

Besides, right now I’m all pissed off at the Superbowl people; there won’t be any parking lot parties going on at all, everyone is going to have to take a bus to get to the game (which will call a monstrous screw-up, guaranteed), and no even NOT under the official profit-making thumb of the NFL will be allowed to say Super-anything. And there won’t be any parties anywhere near the game itself. Certainly not in the parking lot. Because. Terrorist Security. And Money. Probably mostly money.

I’m about fed up with all of this crap, from one end to the other.

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   Saturday - October 12, 2013

just another i’m sorry moment.

It has been a very long day and I was about to shut down when this came across my screen.
So, seeing as how I already complained about all the needless apologies, I just could not let another one go.

I’m trying to find where the offense comes into it here. I see none. Maybe cos I am not Polish?

What you should also see are some of lame0 comments on this one, at the link below.

Adrian Chiles apologises for controversial ‘racist’ Polish joke

By Eurosport | World of Sport –

ITV footballer presenter Adrian Chiles has come under fire for a Polish ‘joke’ he made during the channel’s coverage of England’s 4-1 victory over Montenegro.

Near the end of the broadcast, Chiles started to look forward to England’s clash with Poland on Tuesday night – a match that will secure England’s place in the World Cup if they win.

Chiles, whose mother is Croatian, said that the game on Tuesday is “practically a home game for Poland – 15,000 Poles will be in here, I’m sure.”

Pundit Lee Dixon responded by saying: “Hopefully, they’re all crying at the end,” to which Chiles replied: “I’m trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”

The remark seemed to play up on the stereotype that vast majority of Polish people in London work in the construction industry.

The comment sparked an immediate debate on Twitter with some people labelling it a racist remark, while others countered saying people were overreacting.

YAHOO SPORTS

The remark seemed to play up on the stereotype that vast majority of Polish people in London work in the construction industry.

Well, yeah. For sure there a lot of them in that as I should know. They were the major non English speaking crew on a house next door that was under construction. Another thing doing the rounds also, is that they are mostly plumbers.  So what?
Where’s the insult?  But these days of course it is always safest to make a groveling apology.  Even if you haven’t a clue as to what you did that was supposed to be wrong.

OK, that’s it for tonight.
Bye all.

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   Sunday - February 03, 2013

Into The Dark

A 3rd Quarter power outage? For half an hour????

WTF folks, what the fudge.

I think the 49ers demanded an extra nap period. They sure seem to be in need of it. Maybe they should just go home and try again tomorrow.

Most hilarious one sided football game I’ve seen in ages so far. And after that 109 yard kickoff return ... aww, to hell with it. Somebody hit the switch!!

la di di, la di da, la di do ... time passes ... still no power in the stadium ... CBS scrapes the bottom of the barrel to find some kind of ads to run ... may as well mention those ... didja notice that you saw MORE commercials the first 8 minutes of the game than you saw game? What up wit dat shiz? Hated it!!

Hey, just as an aside, who was that doing the voiceover for the Dodge “God made a farmer” commercial? Kinda sounded like Reagan. Great ad, really got to me. But then, so did the “Clydesdale remembers” one. I’m such a softy. Sniff sniff. So verklempt. Same with Oprah doing the one for returning veterans.

Could you believe that godawful “I’m the next big thing.” “No, I’m the next big thing? ad from Samsung? How long was that piece of crap, an hour? Holy cats. Endless. CUT!!!

No really sexy ads this time. Nothing super funny. Nothing super gross either, thankfully. Nothing really standout either ... although the one with supermodel Bar Rafaeli making out with some blushing fat dweeb got my attention. What the hell? Is there anything models won’t do for money?? Horry Clap, and it went on for like 20 seconds. I have no idea what they were selling ... but ... eww.

Ok, lights are back on, let’s play some football. No, not just you guys. BOTH you guys. Hey, wtf? WAKE UP!! Damn. Alternate universe time or what? Who took the first half Ravens away and gave us this bunch? WTF? WTFFFFF? Am I looking at blatant collusion? Flaccid Flacco now has just one play. ONE PLAY: Give the ball to the little guy and have him run right into the middle of the big pile of guys who want to stomp him. Are we shaving points here? To keep the game interesting and the ad revenue coming in? Or did the 49ers just sleep through the first half, and now they’re awake? This is so imbalanced it’s not even funny. No, not funny. Not enjoyable either. Doesn’t even seem possible. I’ve got no dog in this hunt. None at all. But one team completely dominating the game up to when the lights go out, and when they finally come back on it’s the other team’s turn for complete domination? I spent the first half of the game cheering. I spent the second half being pissed off. Come on. Every Raven guy is totally covered on every play? 49ers guys are always open, and Kopernick has all afternoon to throw the ball every single play? Please. I’m being played here. This is dishonest. Both of you teams can go to Hell. And excuse me, I don’t care if it is legal to run down the clock and give your opponents the 2 point safety. Deliberately giving away points? Legal or not, good strategy or not, it’s dishonorable. So the sleepwalking Ravens just barely win, almost by accident, after spending the whole second half trying their damnedest to loose. No wonder I don’t waste my time with football any more.

Hey, I hear we’ve got pro hockey again! A whole 35 game season after the lockout finally ended, with the exact settlement we all figured out would happen before it even started. Guess them old canucks needed an extra month or three to heal some injuries. 

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   Sunday - January 20, 2013

His Final Inning

He was simply “The Man.”

Stanley Frank Musial made a name for himself as one of baseball’s best hitters of all time on the field, as well as one of its greatest, most dignified ambassadors off it.

And now “Stan the Man” is gone. Musial died at his Ladue, Missouri, home surrounded by family, the Cardinals said in a statement. According to a post on his Twitter page, which is maintained by his grandson Brian Musial Schwarze, Musial died at 5:45 p.m. (6:45 p.m. ET) Saturday of natural causes.

He was 92.

“We have lost the most beloved member of the Cardinals family,” said William DeWitt Jr., the club’s chairman. “Stan Musial was the greatest player in Cardinals history and one of the best players in the history of baseball.”

The left-hander had a batting average above .300 17 times during his 22-year career—all played with St. Louis—and earned three National League Most Valuable Player awards as well as three World Series titles. The only blip came in 1945, in the thick of World War II, when he left baseball to join the U.S. Navy.

After the 1963 season, Musial retired with a .331 career batting average and as the National League’s career leader in RBI, games played, runs scored, hits and doubles. He has since been surpassed in some of those categories, but he still ranks fourth in baseball history in total hits, behind only Pete Rose, Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron

During and after his playing career, Musial developed a special relationship with the St. Louis fan base, who knew him simply as “Stan the Man.”

A bronze statue of him stands outside Busch Stadium, which is located in Musial Plaza along Stan Musial Drive.

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   Friday - January 18, 2013

Just Give It Up Already

“In order to win, you have to dope”

Lance Armstrong, biggest sports hypocrite of the millennium.

Liar, liar, testicle crushing spandex bicycle shorts on fire!

You know what? He’s probably right. And it isn’t just bicycle racing and the Tour de Farce, it’s all sports. How many times do we have to go through this? How many times will the baseball Hall of Fame have to put the snoot on an entire generation of players (yeah, and you too Barry B) because they’re all doped to Hell and back? How many Congressional Investigations, as if it’s any of their business in the first place? Give it up already.

I’ll give you a choice. Either let them all drug themselves as much as they want, blood dope, steroids, speed, whatever ... or keep them all in hermetically sealed environments. Either way, they’re all performing monkeys for our entertainment. And nobody really gives a damn if the monkey gets broken. There’s always another monkey ready to replace him. Or her.

And because of the doping ... this is why the Olympics should only be open to people over the age of 21. Or maybe 23.

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   Sunday - October 21, 2012

tell me. is Sir Alex Ferguson an idiot or what?  he sure is politically correct

Well damn and double damn it.

Who’dda thunk this pc crazyness would manage to get this far? I may not have thought it but I am not at all surprised and I don’t think you are either.
But it’s bothersome.

I am not a sports fan here, don’t even know who the heck the teams being referred to are and don’t care to know. 
They aren’t the Dodgers or the Yankees.

What this is about is the “enforced” show of solidarity imposed by management on players of some team here, to wear some kind of special stupid anti racist T-Shirt before a game.  Like wearing a shirt is going to solve anything.  And now the idiot manager is threatening a player with the words,
“He will be dealt with, no doubt about that.” And all because the guy didn’t wear a politically correct feel good shirt.

It really never dawns on these MF******pc idiots, that this kind of display may be fine in a place like No. Korea and China, but not as a meaningless and worthless display here in the manner he dictates. What a fool.
These guys want to play football I am reasonably certain.  I’d bet most of them don’t give this pc subject much thought at all, unless it directly impacts them.

I guess this isn’t anything to get worked up over but it’s the idea and the bully boy attitude these pc leftist sobs force on the culture. It takes root and builds and leads them to other things to tell people to do and to wear in support of.

Rio Ferdinand let Manchester United down not wearing a Kick It Out T-shirt says ‘embarrassed’ Sir Alex Ferguson

Alex Ferguson has accused Rio Ferdinand of letting down Manchester United after the defender refused to take part in equality group Kick It Out’s anti-racism day.

By Telegraph Sport

Every player in the Premier League had been issued with a Kick It Out T-shirt to be worn during pre-match warm-ups to show support for the campaign to drive racism from the sport.

But Ferdinand infuriated Ferguson by failing to wear his ahead of Saturday’s 4-2 win over Stoke at Old Trafford.

Ferdinand is thought to have been protesting at what he believes to be the relatively weak punishment given to John Terry after the Chelsea defender was only handed a four-match ban despite being found guilty by the Football Association of racially abusing the United star’s brother Anton during a match against QPR last year.

The 33-year-old’s snub was especially annoying for Ferguson as the United manager, reacting to Reading striker Jason Roberts’ revelation that he wouldn’t support Kick It Out, had insisted on Friday that all his players would wear the T-shirts.

“I’m very disappointed, he has let us down,” Ferguson said after the Stoke game.

“I said yesterday that the players would be wearing it in support of the Professional Footballers Association and that every player should adhere to it. And he goes and lets us down.

“It is embarrassing for me. He will be dealt with, no doubt about that.”

Just had another thought.  Is it even in his contract that he’d have to wear clothing supporting whatever pet project the team manager was into at any given time? 

Posted by peiper     on 10/21/2012 at 05:00 AM   
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