Sports. Sports. Sports. I love them…in fact that’s an understatement because I owe nearly every bit of knowledge I’ve ever soaked up in life to watching, playing and understanding them. Hell, I learned American Geography and state capitals from knowing where nearly all the major university stadiums are. Thank you Brent Musberger….even if you do suck at generally stating the obvious in every major college football game ever played dating back to the Holy Roman Empire I got a 100% in American Geography. And thanks to you Sir John Madden… I do agree that Brett Favre should have his own national holiday…but that it should be on the 4th of every month to be celebrated by buying cheese and explaining to youngsters that the goal of football is to score more points than the other team.
All kidding aside (temporarily)…sports are culturally important. Even if you’re not a “sports person” per say, you will hear about sports quite a bit…especially in this community. So, in saying that, it must come as no surprise that though the present state of Pittsburgh sports has been “heated” to say the least…I’m still in full support of it.
GET OVER IT. Whining about the piss poor justice system and how it has handled two time Super Bowl champion Ben Roethlisberger has nothing to do with all the criticism and negative attention that he, his teammates, the Rooney’s, and the NFL has absorbed in a matter of months. It’s just good ole American justice at its finest.
Please read this slowly if you are of the mind that Ben Roethlisberger should be cut from the Steelers 53 man roster or should be excommunicated to St. Louis via trade in the coming week.
America is the ONLY civilized and industrialized nation in the world that establishes innocence until guilt can be proven by data, credible witnesses and a preponderance of the evidence. Sorry for the legal speak….but quite honestly…who hasn’t worked the justice system in western PA??? I do it every year when I get a speeding ticket.
Onto the current predicament.
Do Ben, his teammates, the Rooney’s and the NFL deserve to be brow beat for this? The simple answer is no….but by saying simple I’m sure that most Western PA natives will quickly resort to telling me how they are part of some rich sports heritage that God has somehow blessed and bestowed upon them because the Steelers, the Penguins, and the “Succos” have represented the city of Pittsburgh since the early 1970’s with championship caliber play both on the field and off it. That is not the case however.
Logically then, the next question is why did Santonio Holmes (San Antonio Holmes to most “average “ Stiller fans) take the fall for all the bad behavior recently? Clean out your ears all you Republican Regan fans….SPORTS IS A BUSINESS and the Rooney’s GET MONEY. (a reference that most of the kids understand…)
Santonio Holmes is a thug and a talented one at that. I liked him…he was my thug. I probably would have chilled with him at the club and drank Remmy Martin or deflected the glass he threw at that bitch…
I, in essence, have @ times acted just like him minus the woman beating and the marijuana charges. Oh wait…you weren’t familiar with that were you? Allow me to enlighten you.
Ben is treated as a disgusting slob because of two alleged reports of assault/sexual misconduct toward women. Nothing has been proven…in fact there was never a charge filed EVER because a “preponderance of evidence” was never found to be substantial enough to build a case upon.
Please feel free to liken this to building a house on top of quicksand….it doesn’t take a super genius to conclude exactly how that is going to work out.
But Bluntman…aka #10… Mr. MVP has in fact been found GUILTY of twice assaulting women…and worse yet…it was for beating up the mother of his three little girls…and to make it worse yet…he assaulted her drunk and in front of all 3 little girls in their home. That’s 2 strikes.
He’s had a drunken and disorderly conduct charge in college and he’s also been caught, charged and suspended for possession of marijuana. All of this adds up to one simple conclusion for ¾ of the redneck Steeler nation: THE ROONEY’S are racist.
Little do they realize the Rooney’s enacted the “Rooney Rule” which states that when NFL teams interview for available coaching positions they must include candidates that are African American. The NFL enforces it through fines and stripping teams of compensatory draft picks and it is taken quite seriously.
But in spite of this, of course the Rooney’s are racist…they traded the black guy but not Mr. Whitey…..or perhaps just maybe the dumbass people that make this claim should look no further than the coach….because the last time I checked Mike Tomlin would pass for white about as well as I would pass for Denzel Washington.
Holmes had to go. He was suspended for 4 games of the upcoming season and because he is a 5 time proven offender of America’s justice system, he picked a bad time to throw his drink at a bitch. Thank you Jets…I hope we get a good special teamer out of that 5th round pick…at least he’ll make some tackles while Sherlock Holmes is trying to philander his way out of charge # 6…7….8….or jail time because trust me it is coming. He’s only 26 and hasn’t gotten that big contract yet. What owner is gonna give it to him??? Probably Mike Tannenbaum …aka the GM and owner of the Jets. Consider that your NFL education for the day.
Ben Roethlisberger is an asshole in some capacity, he acts like he’s 16 and never learned how to treat a lady. Of that fact I am 100% convinced but still that is no crime in America, in fact it is indeed encouraged by MTV on a nightly basis…
I am also convinced that Ben needs to get his ass in gear and take the blessings that pro sports have allowed him to have and run with it. Especially because he represents a proud, ignorant and overly obsessive group of blue collar pix-burghers every time he takes the field draped in black and gold…..
Still, the Rooney’s made the right decision. You can’t cut a 100 million dollar contract holder, 60% of which is guaranteed $$$ and live to tell about it. The Atlanta Falcons did it with Mike Vick but that was because he was a proven offender of the justice system and they got a good chunk of $$$ back in court by sueing him for it. That will not happen with Ben because nothing has been proven. If he is traded he will take 60 million bones with him and the backbone of the Steelers BUSINESS. The Rooney’s are gamblers… trust me when I say they understand the impact it would have.
Imagine if you owned a trucking company. The talent that makes your business thrive is the experienced DRIVERS. So if they all get a ton of speeding tickets or drink on the weekends and hit their wives do you fire them and promote the mechanics to drive because of a sudden attack of conscience and morality? Hell no…all business owners know where their bread is buttered and so do the Rooney’s. They will not cut or trade him because it would be a financial nightmare.
Ben is a good QB….the best this city has seen. But beyond anything, redneck old timers who watch the Steelers HATE their QB’s and generally hate anyone who is bigger than the team. Ask Terry Bradshaw….or Tommy Maddox…or Kordell Stewart…or Neil O’Donell…hell ask Barry Foster, Plaxico Burress or even Franco Harris who couldn’t even retire as a Steeler. All were run out of town by the FANS and management.
Hell, Kordell had rumors spread that he was gay, Tommy Maddox’s son was beaten up in high school for a Sunday loss and had his front yard set on fire…..the fans here are the ones that are guilty of crimes….defamation of character, slander, assault….etc etc…ok some more…..
NO CLASS…no respect…idiotic opinions, and most of all….rumor mongering and “he said she said” is not damning evidence in a court of law….it’s called “hear say” and it is thrown out of court faster than that DTF slut was thrown off of Ben’s…well you know :)
Winning cures all…if there is anything America and subsequently Pittsburgh loves it’s a winner. Ben Is a winner and he can right this ship faster than anyone. Look @ KOBE…look @ RAY RAY…look at Derek Jeter (who sleeps with more slutty women than anyone)…look at Mike Tyson…I can keep going people.
So please, just shut up about Ben and the Steelers…you’re not an NFL GM…you have no clue what you’re talking about and generally don’t know the difference between how front office operations should be handled and how a debit card works. Stick with managing your God Damn Farmville’s and Facebook Aquarium’s you stupid peons and leave the Steelers and Ben alone.
Or just watch sports and actually learn that it is a business…
& while you’re at it watch some Judge Judy because apparently it is difficult for you to grasp the elementary statutes of law. Hell, please look up the term “preponderance of evidence”… But if you take away one thing from this mammoth article then please understand this above all else….
“The goal of football is to score more points that the other team.”
Ben does that….and as long as he continues to do that he will have a place on the roster.
Thank you Mr. John Madden…though you are cryogenically frozen each year and then thawed out to interview Brett Favre for ABC sports and ESPN on Monday Nights…you have taught me one thing more than the jealous ignorant hicks that live and thrive in Western PA.
The Stillers need BEN ROETHELISBERGER. Not the other way around.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
$$$ BALL
The Steelers, The Penguins, The Pirates…. What’s the one thing they all have in common?
PITTSBURGH.
Really, all of the comparisons end there. The Steelers are one of the classiest organizations in pro sports as well as one of the most successful…if you disagree with that in light of certain “misbehavings” by key players recently, then go ahead and bring it on….I just took the ammunition out of your biggest gun….6 super bowl titles in what is arguably the most competitive/violent league in the world.
The Pittsburgh Penguins won a pair of Stanley cups on the back of good GM work and a super star named Mario Lemieux. Then hockey became pro baseball for awhile. They allowed salaries to increase, they managed to leave the fan out of the game and pretty soon about 5 franchises were in the running for the cup every season because hockey became $$$ BALL. (franchises: Colorado, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Toronto, Detroit.)
These 5 organizations were at the time the most powerful and lucrative in the game. # of them remain so though you would never know Toronto makes more $$ than any other, but that was before the cap was installed that SAVED hockey. These teams did not see the need to draft and raise talent….instead they drafted talent and traded it away for proven veterans that they could then sign to long term deals. They bought ALL stars. That’s the reason Detroit is about 8,000 years old from the top of its roster to the bottom between 1996-2002. They adapted and started drafting better after that to much better results.
The cap allowed the pens to be competitive and the rest is history….good drafting, luck and a a few young stars coupled with superb ownership and GM work lead to a 3rd cup from an organization that was nearly run out of town….
So back to baseball….it’s a corrupt and selfish league that only cares about its owners and players. The fans get left out even though we are the ones who provide the bulk of the $$$ to this gutless cash machine.
The Yankees (AKA the evil empire) and Boston Red Sox are deplorable examples of good ownership…they simply know how to take advantage of a bad system. If you had enough $$ and “PROUD of their ahlf illitearte accent” fans then any ape with half a brain cell would understand why giving CC Sabathia, AJ burnett, Mark Texiera, Curtis Granderson….A-roid, etc, etc more money than God is a good idea…because supposedly it would give you the best chance to win a title.
(1 title win in the past decade despite 2.2 billion in player spending…..which quite frankly doesn’t impress me that much…especially since there is about 12 legit teams that are even considered “contenders” to start the season.)
Yankees fans are like fans from all other sports…they’re not sports fans. They simply like to feel good that they root for a team that WINS!!! Yayyyyy they won! Look, see, I was right…I knew they would win! I’m so smart where sports are concerned…..27 titles…wow yippppeeee……its peanuts people.
Listen miss Cleo, those classic yankee teams had some pride and that many titles is impressive no matter what sport but when you consider that MLB is really just a game of poker than no wonder it was easy to win 27 out of 107 years. That’s a title percentage of about 25%....so your team enters the season with a 25% chance of winning it all against 12 other current competitive teams….wow….you root for good odds not good baseball! You are only exempt from this if you were born in NYC and the Yankees are a family tradition of sorts. All others are bandwagon fans….that is the truth. You like feeling good that you are associated with a winner in some capacity….an underlying truth is that most people that do like the Yankees are probably not successful at the sports they loved growing up. Losing sucks doesn’t it??
So, the pirates….oh boy.
They are the epitome of losing.
This is a touchy subject. I love Pittsburgh. It’s a proud sports town with some of the best fans in the world, but here’s the cold hard facts grandpa:
17 consecutive losing seasons (worst in ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS WORLDWIDE)
Lowest payroll spent last season (cut all lucrative contracts for minor leaguers in return)
In 2009-10 season only 4 players had contracts valued @ 2 million or higher.
More $$$ is spent marketing and advertising the pirates than is spent on player salary
A brand new ball park that has sold out 4 games in its history…( 3 of them were games against the Yankees)
No penant or division title in 19 years
Paul Maholm is our highest paid player @ 3.5 million dollars. (that’s a little more than what kris letang just got from the penguins)….and maholm sucks (38-44 career with a 4.33 era…its not top 4 starter material for any other respectable organization in MLB)
Any fan that could stomach these facts and still go to the ATM for the 10 dollars it takes to get into that beautiful building need punched. The ownership just pockets your money and hands you a night out to see TERRIBLE baseball in a beautiful building. Or maybe the terrible concert and fireworks afterward.
Please come to our nice house….we have fireworks and bobbleheads and commemorative plates, and collectable coins and free t-shirts, and free hats and free food if you pay $35…….what a joke this organization is. I HATE IT.
The ownership has no intention of ever putting a winning product on that field despite the fans innate infatuation with their beloved “buccos”….I only go if someone gives me a ticket for free. If someone gives me a free ticket this season I’m gonna put it in an envelope and mail it to the Nuttings with these words on it:
“You are a rapist….please jump off the Roberto Clemente bridge headfirst.” Signed….a fan who is smarter than you and your GM…the same GM you hired so you can fire him a year from now and blame 18 losing season on him not yourself…..
Opening day buzz is retarded also…this team continues to operate and make $ because of thousands of blindly loyal fans and OLD MEN who still think the 1970’s are around and that “we are family.”
Quite frankly I don’t want the Nutting’s mentioned in the same sentence as me, my family, or even the bank statement I receive at the end of the month….I bank with citizens…you know who’s ballpark they named even though they are a western PA business??? The Phillies…smart cats.
This season will not approach anything close to .500 ball….i will be surprised if they make it to .400 ball.
They have no talent….they have no brains what-so-ever…they have no intention of winning anytime soon….and apparently they get away with it because loyally stupid-ass fans go in droves to get their pirates memorabilia. Let them sink people…..let the Nutting’s have their winter wonderland….
They guilt their lemming fans to be part of the teams that brought 5 titles to this town. Do they plan on adding to it anytime soon? NOPE…and further more I will not buy a #22 Andrew McCutchen jersey for the same reason I won’t buy a Clemente #21….no its not cuz I’m racist….it’s because I don’t believe in using past success to promote current mediocrity….wait mediocrity is too nice….how bout current inevitability. THEY WILL LOSE again and again and again if you keep “believing” by putting low stakes poker chips in their pockets by attending their games.
As a fan of Pittsburgh sports…I will bash them at every turn because their owners do not belong here. I love the titles they won in 1909, 1925 and then again in 1960 (against the Yankees)…I love the titles they won in the 1971 and 79…it’s a proud rich franchise that’s owned by shallow pockets and shrewd business people who prey on the low sports IQ’s of people native to this area.
Ever wonder why they call it “the WORLD SERIES of Poker”???????
BASEBALL IS A JOKE & the pirates are the punch line.
PITTSBURGH.
Really, all of the comparisons end there. The Steelers are one of the classiest organizations in pro sports as well as one of the most successful…if you disagree with that in light of certain “misbehavings” by key players recently, then go ahead and bring it on….I just took the ammunition out of your biggest gun….6 super bowl titles in what is arguably the most competitive/violent league in the world.
The Pittsburgh Penguins won a pair of Stanley cups on the back of good GM work and a super star named Mario Lemieux. Then hockey became pro baseball for awhile. They allowed salaries to increase, they managed to leave the fan out of the game and pretty soon about 5 franchises were in the running for the cup every season because hockey became $$$ BALL. (franchises: Colorado, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Toronto, Detroit.)
These 5 organizations were at the time the most powerful and lucrative in the game. # of them remain so though you would never know Toronto makes more $$ than any other, but that was before the cap was installed that SAVED hockey. These teams did not see the need to draft and raise talent….instead they drafted talent and traded it away for proven veterans that they could then sign to long term deals. They bought ALL stars. That’s the reason Detroit is about 8,000 years old from the top of its roster to the bottom between 1996-2002. They adapted and started drafting better after that to much better results.
The cap allowed the pens to be competitive and the rest is history….good drafting, luck and a a few young stars coupled with superb ownership and GM work lead to a 3rd cup from an organization that was nearly run out of town….
So back to baseball….it’s a corrupt and selfish league that only cares about its owners and players. The fans get left out even though we are the ones who provide the bulk of the $$$ to this gutless cash machine.
The Yankees (AKA the evil empire) and Boston Red Sox are deplorable examples of good ownership…they simply know how to take advantage of a bad system. If you had enough $$ and “PROUD of their ahlf illitearte accent” fans then any ape with half a brain cell would understand why giving CC Sabathia, AJ burnett, Mark Texiera, Curtis Granderson….A-roid, etc, etc more money than God is a good idea…because supposedly it would give you the best chance to win a title.
(1 title win in the past decade despite 2.2 billion in player spending…..which quite frankly doesn’t impress me that much…especially since there is about 12 legit teams that are even considered “contenders” to start the season.)
Yankees fans are like fans from all other sports…they’re not sports fans. They simply like to feel good that they root for a team that WINS!!! Yayyyyy they won! Look, see, I was right…I knew they would win! I’m so smart where sports are concerned…..27 titles…wow yippppeeee……its peanuts people.
Listen miss Cleo, those classic yankee teams had some pride and that many titles is impressive no matter what sport but when you consider that MLB is really just a game of poker than no wonder it was easy to win 27 out of 107 years. That’s a title percentage of about 25%....so your team enters the season with a 25% chance of winning it all against 12 other current competitive teams….wow….you root for good odds not good baseball! You are only exempt from this if you were born in NYC and the Yankees are a family tradition of sorts. All others are bandwagon fans….that is the truth. You like feeling good that you are associated with a winner in some capacity….an underlying truth is that most people that do like the Yankees are probably not successful at the sports they loved growing up. Losing sucks doesn’t it??
So, the pirates….oh boy.
They are the epitome of losing.
This is a touchy subject. I love Pittsburgh. It’s a proud sports town with some of the best fans in the world, but here’s the cold hard facts grandpa:
17 consecutive losing seasons (worst in ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS WORLDWIDE)
Lowest payroll spent last season (cut all lucrative contracts for minor leaguers in return)
In 2009-10 season only 4 players had contracts valued @ 2 million or higher.
More $$$ is spent marketing and advertising the pirates than is spent on player salary
A brand new ball park that has sold out 4 games in its history…( 3 of them were games against the Yankees)
No penant or division title in 19 years
Paul Maholm is our highest paid player @ 3.5 million dollars. (that’s a little more than what kris letang just got from the penguins)….and maholm sucks (38-44 career with a 4.33 era…its not top 4 starter material for any other respectable organization in MLB)
Any fan that could stomach these facts and still go to the ATM for the 10 dollars it takes to get into that beautiful building need punched. The ownership just pockets your money and hands you a night out to see TERRIBLE baseball in a beautiful building. Or maybe the terrible concert and fireworks afterward.
Please come to our nice house….we have fireworks and bobbleheads and commemorative plates, and collectable coins and free t-shirts, and free hats and free food if you pay $35…….what a joke this organization is. I HATE IT.
The ownership has no intention of ever putting a winning product on that field despite the fans innate infatuation with their beloved “buccos”….I only go if someone gives me a ticket for free. If someone gives me a free ticket this season I’m gonna put it in an envelope and mail it to the Nuttings with these words on it:
“You are a rapist….please jump off the Roberto Clemente bridge headfirst.” Signed….a fan who is smarter than you and your GM…the same GM you hired so you can fire him a year from now and blame 18 losing season on him not yourself…..
Opening day buzz is retarded also…this team continues to operate and make $ because of thousands of blindly loyal fans and OLD MEN who still think the 1970’s are around and that “we are family.”
Quite frankly I don’t want the Nutting’s mentioned in the same sentence as me, my family, or even the bank statement I receive at the end of the month….I bank with citizens…you know who’s ballpark they named even though they are a western PA business??? The Phillies…smart cats.
This season will not approach anything close to .500 ball….i will be surprised if they make it to .400 ball.
They have no talent….they have no brains what-so-ever…they have no intention of winning anytime soon….and apparently they get away with it because loyally stupid-ass fans go in droves to get their pirates memorabilia. Let them sink people…..let the Nutting’s have their winter wonderland….
They guilt their lemming fans to be part of the teams that brought 5 titles to this town. Do they plan on adding to it anytime soon? NOPE…and further more I will not buy a #22 Andrew McCutchen jersey for the same reason I won’t buy a Clemente #21….no its not cuz I’m racist….it’s because I don’t believe in using past success to promote current mediocrity….wait mediocrity is too nice….how bout current inevitability. THEY WILL LOSE again and again and again if you keep “believing” by putting low stakes poker chips in their pockets by attending their games.
As a fan of Pittsburgh sports…I will bash them at every turn because their owners do not belong here. I love the titles they won in 1909, 1925 and then again in 1960 (against the Yankees)…I love the titles they won in the 1971 and 79…it’s a proud rich franchise that’s owned by shallow pockets and shrewd business people who prey on the low sports IQ’s of people native to this area.
Ever wonder why they call it “the WORLD SERIES of Poker”???????
BASEBALL IS A JOKE & the pirates are the punch line.
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