tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post3159095740197831325..comments2023-10-31T06:31:41.395-04:00Comments on Bottom of the Barrel: Mitch Albom Sits Us Down and Gives Us a Lecture about CaringBengoodfellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-86101703825601414532013-10-03T10:48:54.555-04:002013-10-03T10:48:54.555-04:00Jack, you are probably right to an extent. Basebal...Jack, you are probably right to an extent. Baseball grasps on to the past and won't let go, so the idea players of today are cheating players from the past is what allows sportswriters (and even some fans) to be uppity and focus so much on PED use in baseball. <br /><br />I guess if Albom and PK's name is a PED then they have been coasting off it for a while now. I know I write about PK more often, but I find Mitch Albom to be even more distasteful. He is a guy who was caught lying, yet has the balls to be sanctimonious and a jerk about asking fans what kind of fans they want to be. <br /><br />He's a guy who isn't really doing any great sportswriting, yet acts like he is above the fray and above reproach. Albom has won awards recently too, which just proves to me if you stay writing long enough awards will eventually come your way. Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-38435225703921638462013-10-03T09:04:42.834-04:002013-10-03T09:04:42.834-04:00The question is what kind of fan do you want to be...<b>The question is what kind of fan do you want to be?</b><br /><br />Fuck you, Mitch. What a sanctimonious douchebag. You know what I want to know the next time one of these sportswriters asks what kind of example PED users are setting for kids? What kind of example are Albom and other writers of his ilk setting for the future sports journalists of America?<br /><br />Laziness, no originality, just pick a soapbox or a dead horse and churn out the same piece of shit opinion piece 150 times without doing any actual work. If you want to make a real tortured analogy (which lets face it, most sports writers are great at) assholes like Albom and King are kind of like PED users in their own profession. They "cheat" the system by relying on their name and the clout it provides, while scrappy little writers who actually want to do research and inform the public in some no-name paper have their talents wasted away, sort of like how a minor leaguer can never break through because of the PED cheats. (that was really bad)<br /><br />Also Ben, the reason that PED use in baseball receives WAAYYYY more scrutiny than any other sport is due entirely to the fact that no other sport gets off on the "sanctity" of their own records quite like baseball, and more specifically, baseball writers. "It's our connection to the past, it's the game that spans generations, yada yada yada." You didn't hear shit about steroids until people started hitting 60+ homers and Bonds started approaching Aaron. Other sports fans care more about the here and now, while some baseball fans and seemingly ALL baseball writers care more about the nostalgia of yesteryear. That's my opinion anyway. <br />jacktotheracknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-285155045616708622013-10-03T08:29:59.783-04:002013-10-03T08:29:59.783-04:00Anon, you clearly don't care about the childre...Anon, you clearly don't care about the children. <br /><br />I am with you on the NFL PED issue and I would include the NBA as well. Merriman used PEDs and then his career went down the toilet, still he gets to be on "the Biggest Loser" as a trainer, because apparently they didn't hear his career sucked after he got suspended for PED use. <br /><br />I don't excuse the use of PEDs by baseball players, but they get the worst of it simply because their sport quit hiding its head in the sand. <br /><br />See, I do think A-Rod is an asshole, but I don't hate him as much as I should. In fact, because he is going pure villain on us at this point almost makes me like him more. He's embracing it. <br /><br />Nothing is more annoying than a sportswriter being worried about the kids. It's so trite. Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-75552538690010805352013-10-02T23:46:48.084-04:002013-10-02T23:46:48.084-04:00Is there anything - anything? - more annoying than...Is there anything - anything? - more annoying than when a sportswriter whines, "won't somebody please think of the children?!" I say no. <br /><br />I can't wait for 20 years from now when sportswriters are excoriating themselves for not seeing the NFL's PED problem while it was happening. Players continue to get bigger, and also continue to get faster. Nothing to see here, I guess. Actually, WE KNOW that guys like Julius Peppers and Shawne Merriman used PEDs, as well as Brian Cushing and numerous others. No big deal, nothing to see here. Baseball players never hear the end of it though. So ridiculous.<br /><br />Except for Andy Pettite. That man's a saint who took an unfortunate detour, just ask PK. ARod is the enemy here; he stuck a needle right into the buttocks of american morality. We know Pettite used, he's good friends with Clemens who the media also hate, but he's a member of the Core Four, True Yankee through and through, and so he gets a pass. Anyone else is an asshole. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com