A Good Year for the Outlaw

Today’s idea: Helping baseball get rid of ‘roids.
My rules would be simple and a helluva lot more strict than what we see today, and would instead of simply punishing the players with a slap on the wrist would punish the teams that signed them.
1. If you have a player ANYWHERE in your organization, from [...]

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After another long day at the office, I hear late in the day that the two emprisoned American reporters are on their way home from North Korea with President Clinton. Good news, I say. So I tune in on the drive home and what do I hear?
“It was orchestrated!”, screams Sean Hannity, “they knew they [...]

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And speaking of cheaters, one of the all-time great cheaters is getting what he deserves this weekend: Lou Holtz is being inducted into the college football Hall of Fame. Err….wtf?!?!?!
Lou Holtz, the guy who left the last four schools he coached in NCAA probation for recruiting violations and illegal payments? That Lou Holtz? The guy [...]

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Much like with Ramirez, the adoration shown to the late Steve McNair, who should have the word “adulterer” placed next to his name as often as the word “quarterback” appears next to it, is weird at best, sickening at least.
Here is a father of four kids, killed by his 20-year old (17 years his [...]

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The adoration and attention shown to Manny Ramirez since he came back from being SUSPENDED FOR CHEATING is and has been sickening. Any fan that “cheers” for this cheater should be banned from ever entering a major league stadium again. Same goes for those who cheer A-Roid in New York. These guys shouldn’t even be [...]

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I’m speechless. I knew the Neo-cons were nuts, but this…

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A sickening story.
Another g-damn loon with a g-damn gun who probably g-damn legally acquired it has killed a good man. Scratch that. A great man. A hero to a small town. A town that just went through the trauma of being leveled by a tornado. A town that saw it’s collective spirit picked up [...]

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I don’t pay much attention to baseball anymore, outside of checking the standings here and there. But what with Sosa’s name back in the news (one of the guys who made me feel the way I know feel about baseball), and the latest folly at Wrigley Dump this evening, I gotta comment.
I understand 40,000 people [...]

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Report: Sosa tested positive for steroids in 2003
Wow. Knock me over with a feather. Didn’t see that one comin’.
NOT!
It’s about time this jackass’ name finally got exposed. What a joke. What a freakin’ joke he was/is/and always will be. Eat it, f’en Cub fans in denial. Your boy was right in there with Bonds, [...]

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So there was a nice, big, whiny-toned expose in the USA Today this week about how the economy is affecting NAZICAR attendance and TV ratings and sponsorship dollars. As I’ve said before, the economy is a convenient excuse for these guys, who refuse to look in the mirror and see the REAL reasons why NAZICAR [...]

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Continuing my other post (I’ve edited the timestamp on this one to put it below the first one) on what is REALLY wrong with NASCAR.
We’ve already discussed Toyota, right-wing jingoism, and the dreaded “Car of Tomorrow” as reasons NASCAR is down. Here are more:
4. Track duplication. In their continued efforts to break free from Southern-only [...]

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Manny Ramirez? Juiced? Seriously, who was surprised by this? “It’s Just Manny Being Manny” has a whole new meaning to some today, he’s been on my list the entire time.
He’s just another in the long line of major league supposed “stars” and “heroes” that turns out to be nothing more than a scumbag, lowlife [...]

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Following an Explorer this morning, one of those with the little outlined fish on the tailgate that is apparently only there to signify “I’m better than you, I’ve got a christian fish”, and I find myself dodging peanut shells, or something like that.
You see, the driver is tossing peanut or sunflower seed shells – or [...]

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Listening to a right wing talk show over the weekend on AM radio, and the guest was discussing how President Obama’s “redistribution” of monies might indeed be “discrimination”. He called it Financial Discrimination, and said he thought the mega rich would “have a case” against the government.
The host then said “so you think the [...]

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Three weeks ago, if you’d ask this casual observer of the NFL if it would be cool for the Arizona Cardinals to make the Super Bowl, I’d have said, “sure, why not, good for them”. But then I remembered: Kurt Warner is their quarterback now.
As I sit here watching the last ditch effort by [...]

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Unlike the previous two stories, this one focuses on an accidental shooting. But there still needs to be a bunch of people put away for life for the one they took in this incident…that of an EIGHT year old. And that makes this story easily the most tragic of all.
We don’t let kids vote [...]

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Apparently, these killers, unlike those that were targeting Senator Obama, didn’t have many plans, just wanted to make a few random killings using guns. Sick.

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Two neo-Nazi, skinhead, neo-cons see their plot to kill Senator Obama foiled. Thankfully.
But these two clowns had even bigger plans than that. Again, thankfully, these a’holes were caught before lives were lost due to guns.

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I started to give up on NASCAR, or more appropriately NAZICAR, a couple of seasons back, and haven’t watched more than 100 laps of racing all year to this point. Out of about 12,000 or so.
Tonight, I’m whipping through the dial looking for more college football and I see they’re running at Lowe’s Motor [...]

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So, when a pastor gets up in a pulpit and breaks U.S. Law to endorse a candidate, and knows he’s doing it, how can christians justify this behavior from their clergy?
How come christians aren’t listening to one of their own, who says it’s wrong to endorse from the pulpit and doesn’t do it in [...]

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When I heard CNN and Faux early this morning going over some of the details of the “bailout bill”, I was initially in favor of it passing. But as I read further into it, I was hoping more and more throughout the day that it would not pass the House. It did not pass the [...]

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From my home state, comes this story. A story we read FAR too often in this country.
Another legally acquired gun ending lives. Sad.
Pop quiz: guess how many people would have died in Illinois in this story? Answer: the exact same number. Conceal carry isn’t the answer, people. Period.

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I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around this for quite some time, but still no luck.
According to the likes of George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and everyone else who supports a ban on gay marriage, the following is true:
A coke-addicted, bar-fighting, gun-totin’, redneck, seven-outstanding warrant-havin’ outlaw of a male getting married to a [...]

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The highest gas prices in the state as of 3:15 Sunday afternoon are anywhere from $4.49 to $4.69 per gallon, and anywhere from Carbondale to Mattoon to Sycamore.
The State Police need to be ordered by the Governor to be pulled out of their speed traps and sent to these stations immediately and start questioning [...]

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Notre Dame is honoring Lou Holtz this Saturday with a statue, commemorating the school’s last mythical national football championship.
Not mentioned in this ESPN fluff piece is the fact that Holtz got Notre Dame put on probation as he left, the only time in school history they’ve ever gotten in trouble with the NCAA. That means, [...]

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