Most of the time, when people write blogs they tell you what they know, so I believe it is a great place to start discussion. I'd like to share what I don't know.
"I do not know:
1. ... why people think believing in a God is a bad thing.
2. ... why people have to be selfish to get what they want.
3. ... why people hold on to anger, when it hurts themselves.
4. ... how others don't try to do good.
5. ... how come people don't simplify their lives.
6. ... why do we make life as difficult as we make it.
7. ... when is it okay to satisfied.
8. ... why are people not humble.
9. ... why does Christmas seem to be such a down time, when it should focus on love and selflessness.
10. ... why do we focus on material things, when eventually their value will be worthless.
11. ... who said gold has the most value in life? Do we eat it, breathe it, need it?
12. ... why people can't moderate themselves.
13. ... why women do what they do. I will probably never understand this one!
14. ...why people do not see the uniqueness, and beautiful things in every single one of us.
15. ... why I could go on forever listing things I don't know!
When I write blogs here, I hope you comment, and even start sensible discussions that are important to you! I love you and thank God you are a part of my life! Have a safe + Merry Christmas! Mike
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
I'm back and baseball is Whack!
Okay, It' has been over a year!? Much has happened, good and bad.
I would like to restart my blog by focusing on baseball and the use of enhancing drugs used in sports. First off, this concerns more than baseball. Every sport looks for an edge! That should be the root of all this, but oh ya... money too. I'll focus in on baseball this time because it is in the news forefront and should have been handled much earlier than now. Everyone, and I mean everyone knows the drugs have been and are still being used. The catch now will be to keep up with those that are undetectable through urine tests! We all have an honest idea as to who has used them, many of which were not included in the "puppets" report. There is no way we can go back 10 or more years to prove who did it, but let's stare at the records that stood for almost 90 or so years. The human body has a limit. Once we see super-human feats, I'm picturing Mark McGwire's All-Star derby, home run tape measure homers, multiple 500 foot jobs. Fun to watch but not fair to those who earned there way HUMANLY. Within a five year period 40 home runs a year would not win the home run title. Why? Duh! Not only did they hit 50 or more, they made 61 homers seem like a whitehead on the face of baseball, eventually a pock mark. Henry Aaron achieved a feat over a career of consistency, not in a 6-8 year period of over 45 homers. I cannot comment on Babe Ruth, because, 1 he is a Yankee, and 2 I never saw him play. Take everything we know today, right now, we will not be able to prove Clemen's got it in the ass, by needle I'm guessing, ;) but look how his career got better and did not include his neck being as big as his melon. Nolan Ryan is a good comparison. He got better, because he was on better teams, he worked out like Clemens, but his physical dimensions stayed nearly the same. He also had the balls to fight, whereas Clemens would rather throw a bat at you. Barry Bonds wears big clothes for a reason, to disguise his thickness, compare pictures of him when he came to S.F.! I eat a lot and it doesn't work that well for me! ;) I do understand why they have taken enhancements, our whole country now is focused on such external issues, how things look, how to prolong careers and hard-ons, bigger breasts and peni, better looks and less fat. Shit people are dying while doing this! (e.g. Kanye West's 40 year old mom). Look at the pre-cursors in Football, Lyle Alzado and John Matuzak. All made it their choice and paid, and now we see on the news that high schoolers are using it to be better and paying the ultimate price. How %^!#$ is that! Let's say it's for money. What good is that if you are dead and can't use it? Baseball selected it's own man to explore the history, use and abuse of drugs in it's sport. Get independent parties to research this, and there are no reprecussions of "He's your boy! He's a Red Sox guy and there are no Red Sox on there! Look at all the Yankees!" What happened was a 1.8 million download of a document that is almost worthless! How will they prove this? By the time they come up with a drug to find a drug, there will be a new one! The player's Union will not allow people's names to be "Drug" under public spotlight without retribution! What should morally happen next is for people to admit it if they did it, get this crap over! Because it happened before a rule or law was in place they should be exonerated. Those that did this AFTER the laws and rules are in place should be punished accordingly. Personally I think so many ball players have done this that we should just plan for the future of outlawing any, ANY enhancements. I believe if HGH is used for a temporary time to help speed up rehabilitation than that is acceptable, but put a time limit on it! The Report names names, well they better be able to prove it! If people just admitted it we could move on, again re-start MLB to what it could be, a game you can take the family too, a game of precious stats and history of humans doing inhuman things, without help! If I were in the player's union, and supposedly the majority have not taken enhancers, I would want these mother pluckers to be dealt with not protected! If my union thought more of those that cheated, I would want new representation. A level playing field is more than a flat surface! As a kid I revelled in baseball cards, stats, who was doing those in-human things, hitting .400, belting 48 homers and driving in 125 runs, and in less games. I liked the rivalry, the atmosphere, workday games, great defensive plays and timely hits, fooling a batter with an unexpected pitch. Baseball has a catch to it that other sports lack. Football has it's physical play, basketball it's finesse, hockey it's skill, and beach volleyball has flesh! Everything in it's place and baseball, even though there are so many people attending, (don't forget that those numbers are surrounded by the increase in population) Father's have to explain these things to their children. My son wants to be a professional baseball player, and what has he seen in his 11 years of life, travesty, cheating, immoral and general dishonesty to get the cash. He loves playing, loves the games nuances, the art, I want it to be that way for him the rest of his life. Now when we watch games, we have to discuss whether we think they are"on it" or not. For baseball to start anew, they should flush this poison, which I believe they handle terribly, from today's news.
Do it right Damn it! My next tyrannical blog will deal with the f-ing cheaters -the refs!
I would like to restart my blog by focusing on baseball and the use of enhancing drugs used in sports. First off, this concerns more than baseball. Every sport looks for an edge! That should be the root of all this, but oh ya... money too. I'll focus in on baseball this time because it is in the news forefront and should have been handled much earlier than now. Everyone, and I mean everyone knows the drugs have been and are still being used. The catch now will be to keep up with those that are undetectable through urine tests! We all have an honest idea as to who has used them, many of which were not included in the "puppets" report. There is no way we can go back 10 or more years to prove who did it, but let's stare at the records that stood for almost 90 or so years. The human body has a limit. Once we see super-human feats, I'm picturing Mark McGwire's All-Star derby, home run tape measure homers, multiple 500 foot jobs. Fun to watch but not fair to those who earned there way HUMANLY. Within a five year period 40 home runs a year would not win the home run title. Why? Duh! Not only did they hit 50 or more, they made 61 homers seem like a whitehead on the face of baseball, eventually a pock mark. Henry Aaron achieved a feat over a career of consistency, not in a 6-8 year period of over 45 homers. I cannot comment on Babe Ruth, because, 1 he is a Yankee, and 2 I never saw him play. Take everything we know today, right now, we will not be able to prove Clemen's got it in the ass, by needle I'm guessing, ;) but look how his career got better and did not include his neck being as big as his melon. Nolan Ryan is a good comparison. He got better, because he was on better teams, he worked out like Clemens, but his physical dimensions stayed nearly the same. He also had the balls to fight, whereas Clemens would rather throw a bat at you. Barry Bonds wears big clothes for a reason, to disguise his thickness, compare pictures of him when he came to S.F.! I eat a lot and it doesn't work that well for me! ;) I do understand why they have taken enhancements, our whole country now is focused on such external issues, how things look, how to prolong careers and hard-ons, bigger breasts and peni, better looks and less fat. Shit people are dying while doing this! (e.g. Kanye West's 40 year old mom). Look at the pre-cursors in Football, Lyle Alzado and John Matuzak. All made it their choice and paid, and now we see on the news that high schoolers are using it to be better and paying the ultimate price. How %^!#$ is that! Let's say it's for money. What good is that if you are dead and can't use it? Baseball selected it's own man to explore the history, use and abuse of drugs in it's sport. Get independent parties to research this, and there are no reprecussions of "He's your boy! He's a Red Sox guy and there are no Red Sox on there! Look at all the Yankees!" What happened was a 1.8 million download of a document that is almost worthless! How will they prove this? By the time they come up with a drug to find a drug, there will be a new one! The player's Union will not allow people's names to be "Drug" under public spotlight without retribution! What should morally happen next is for people to admit it if they did it, get this crap over! Because it happened before a rule or law was in place they should be exonerated. Those that did this AFTER the laws and rules are in place should be punished accordingly. Personally I think so many ball players have done this that we should just plan for the future of outlawing any, ANY enhancements. I believe if HGH is used for a temporary time to help speed up rehabilitation than that is acceptable, but put a time limit on it! The Report names names, well they better be able to prove it! If people just admitted it we could move on, again re-start MLB to what it could be, a game you can take the family too, a game of precious stats and history of humans doing inhuman things, without help! If I were in the player's union, and supposedly the majority have not taken enhancers, I would want these mother pluckers to be dealt with not protected! If my union thought more of those that cheated, I would want new representation. A level playing field is more than a flat surface! As a kid I revelled in baseball cards, stats, who was doing those in-human things, hitting .400, belting 48 homers and driving in 125 runs, and in less games. I liked the rivalry, the atmosphere, workday games, great defensive plays and timely hits, fooling a batter with an unexpected pitch. Baseball has a catch to it that other sports lack. Football has it's physical play, basketball it's finesse, hockey it's skill, and beach volleyball has flesh! Everything in it's place and baseball, even though there are so many people attending, (don't forget that those numbers are surrounded by the increase in population) Father's have to explain these things to their children. My son wants to be a professional baseball player, and what has he seen in his 11 years of life, travesty, cheating, immoral and general dishonesty to get the cash. He loves playing, loves the games nuances, the art, I want it to be that way for him the rest of his life. Now when we watch games, we have to discuss whether we think they are"on it" or not. For baseball to start anew, they should flush this poison, which I believe they handle terribly, from today's news.
Do it right Damn it! My next tyrannical blog will deal with the f-ing cheaters -the refs!
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