For those of you that don't follow professional baseball very closely, or for those of you that do, but were away from your tv's, or laptops within the last 48 hours.....Albert Pujols is no longer a St. Louis Cardinal. Yeah, it's for real. He has packed up shop and headed out west. Next spring, Albert will be putting on a new jersey, for the first time in his professional career.....11 years. And it will read Angels across the chest. As in Anaheim Angels.....or California Angels....or Angels of Anaheim, via Los Angeles, or whatever they are called these days. It's pretty interesting that the team that was able to lure Albert away from St. Louis, most closely resembles St. Louis, in the way that they play ball, right down to the way they are coached. I also find it interesting that the team mascot is the Angel, or Angels.
Interesting because, that's what Albert has pretty much been....as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals for 11 years. Since he has been a professional athlete and been thrust into the spotlight, courtesy of his athletic prowess, and pennance for hitting home runs, he has not once been in trouble with the law. Nor, has any member of his entourage (he doesn't have one), been arrested for beating a stripper, or running over a metermaid with their car...or what have you. He instead turned much of what I would assume would be nervous energy, in anticipating opening day of the next season, and used that energy to bring a boat load of doctors and dentists, with him to the Dominican Republic, where he is from, so they could help people there in need of medical attention, at no cost to them. He has supplied thousands of Dominicans with mattresses, paid for out of his pocket. He has donated millions of dollars, and spent several hours of his own time and energy, raising money for research and care for children with downs syndrome. His stepdaughter, has downs sydrome.
For 11 years, an Angel, is pretty much the right word to describe Pujols...as far as how he has behaved himself, and conducted himself while being a St. Louis Cardinal. So, I'm not sad. Disappointed a little, but not sad. I say that now, of course. But my opinion may change, when next spring, ESPN is doing full coverage from Anaheim on opening day and Pujols cranks out 3 home runs in his first game as an Angel. But, then I'll think.....yeah, that's about right. Good luck to you Albert. You brought us some unbelivable moments, and a couple of championships. I can't think of a better place that could use your Angelic services, than L.A.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
It's over....turn out the lights....shut it down...we'll see you next year.
Yep, that's right. Your favorite little fantasy football team, the Alley Cats.....are officially done. A heartbreaking loss, I repeat....a heartbreaking loss, this past week, has officially eliminated the Alley Cats from playoff contention. I knew we were in trouble going into Monday night, but remained optimistic. We were down to one player remaining for the Monday night game, Drew Brees. The score was 94-137, in favor of Da Bears, the team the Cats were playing last week. Da Bears only had one remaining player going on Monday night as well, but it was a receiver for the New York Giants, Victor Cruz. Now, just a little back info on Victor Cruz. He's a bum! I shouldn't say that.....but, he literally has come out of no where this year, and has had himself a fine little season. He's a boom or bust guy though. He will get about 120 yards receiving from 8 catches, with one of them being a touchdown....or he'll get you 12 yards on 1 catch. I was hoping for the latter. Brees and the Saints came out on fire! And within just a few minutes, I was right back into the game...and in the third quarter, I took the lead! Now, at this point I went to bed with a good, solid 15 point lead.
Well, apparently sometime between the time of my head hitting the pillow, and the time my alarm clock sounded the following morning....Victor Cruz caught himself a 75 yard touchdown pass!! Game over, season over......ugggghhhhh. I still needed quite a little bit of help, to get into the playoffs. I needed the team that has a firm grasp on the number 4 seed, to lose the last two games on their schedule. Not impossible, but not likely, all the same. So, now I have absolutely nothing to do on Sunday afternoons. My winter is shot. I would just watch the games, for the fun of it...but my favorite team, the St. Louis Rams are having themselves a worse season than the Alley Cats. They have only won 2 games so far this year, and aren't looking like they can go on any winning streaks any time soon. So, I got nothing. Only 2 and a half months before players start reporting for spring training!!
Well, apparently sometime between the time of my head hitting the pillow, and the time my alarm clock sounded the following morning....Victor Cruz caught himself a 75 yard touchdown pass!! Game over, season over......ugggghhhhh. I still needed quite a little bit of help, to get into the playoffs. I needed the team that has a firm grasp on the number 4 seed, to lose the last two games on their schedule. Not impossible, but not likely, all the same. So, now I have absolutely nothing to do on Sunday afternoons. My winter is shot. I would just watch the games, for the fun of it...but my favorite team, the St. Louis Rams are having themselves a worse season than the Alley Cats. They have only won 2 games so far this year, and aren't looking like they can go on any winning streaks any time soon. So, I got nothing. Only 2 and a half months before players start reporting for spring training!!
Why are people too scared to play their human card?
On the heels of the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky, child abuse scandal, another shocking story broke last week....about an assistant basketball coach at the university of Syracuse, and a couple of children who were ball boys for the basketball team. The main difference in the two stories, is that there isn't an eye witness testimony, as far as the assistant basketball coach, who's name is Bernie Fine, and the two children he has allegedly assaulted. There isn't that person, who has witnessed the transgression, the horrible act, with their own eyes. For the better part of last week, and the beginning part of this week, it was a, he said-she said case. Or rather, a he said-he said case. I'm not going to get into whether or not I think Bernie Fine is guilty of these allegations. The accuser, Bobby Davis, is accusing Fine sexually assaulted him from the age of 13, up until he was 27 years old. I don't know we'll ever know the truth about what happened between, Fine and Davis. Other reports, have surfaced recently, that have linked Davis, sexually with Fine's wife. It appears as though, there was some sort of sordid love triangle between the three. There are also reports, that Fine had loaned Davis over 5,000 dollars and was attempting to collect on that debt, and that's what spurred these allegations.
I'm not a detective. I don't play one on tv. I will let the authorities sort out all the details, and trust in them to arrest all guilty parties. The one thing that is somewhat similar in this case, and the Sandusky scandal at Penn State....is that there, once again, seems to be a let down in the moral code. A lack of humanism if you will. Apparently Davis, recorded a phone call between he, and Fine's wife. The dialogue coming from Fine's wife, would have you believe that she in fact, knew of the assaults, and had suspected for quite some time, that her husband was a child molester. Davis, then took copies of the recording and mailed them to ESPN, and to the Syracuse newspaper, the Post-Standard. From there, there was no action taken by either party. Now, so far, there have been no new accounts of Fine violating any more children after the telephone conversation recording between Davis, and Fine's wife. That being said, why on earth didn't ESPN, or the Post-Standard turn in this recording to the authorities!? If someone gave you a tape of a conversation, and one of the two parties involved in the conversation stated that they were going to kill someone, wouldn't you tell somebody, so that they could stop it? ESPN is bigger than any, and I mean ANY media outlet, they are owned by Disney, who has built their empire, to pretty much entertain children and their families. Who are they scared of? Why were they trying to protect Fine, and Syracuse?
It basically comes down to the fact that people these days, are scared to do what they know, down in their heart of hearts is the right thing to do. People would rather turn a blind eye, and pretend they didn't see anything, than risk personal harm, or any other damage....to help someone else. When asked why they didn't turn in the tape to the authorities, Vince Doria, who is the head of ESPN news, stated on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio sports channel, that he doesn't think it's ESPN's role to play detective and turn in evidence to the police. He stated that as journalists, it isn't their job to turn over any evidence that happens to come their way. Well Vince, what if it had been your child? What if it had been your child that had been assaulted, and it could have been prevented, had someone done what was the morally right thing to do, and that's turn over everything they had, to stop a predator! Be a human being!
I'm not a detective. I don't play one on tv. I will let the authorities sort out all the details, and trust in them to arrest all guilty parties. The one thing that is somewhat similar in this case, and the Sandusky scandal at Penn State....is that there, once again, seems to be a let down in the moral code. A lack of humanism if you will. Apparently Davis, recorded a phone call between he, and Fine's wife. The dialogue coming from Fine's wife, would have you believe that she in fact, knew of the assaults, and had suspected for quite some time, that her husband was a child molester. Davis, then took copies of the recording and mailed them to ESPN, and to the Syracuse newspaper, the Post-Standard. From there, there was no action taken by either party. Now, so far, there have been no new accounts of Fine violating any more children after the telephone conversation recording between Davis, and Fine's wife. That being said, why on earth didn't ESPN, or the Post-Standard turn in this recording to the authorities!? If someone gave you a tape of a conversation, and one of the two parties involved in the conversation stated that they were going to kill someone, wouldn't you tell somebody, so that they could stop it? ESPN is bigger than any, and I mean ANY media outlet, they are owned by Disney, who has built their empire, to pretty much entertain children and their families. Who are they scared of? Why were they trying to protect Fine, and Syracuse?
It basically comes down to the fact that people these days, are scared to do what they know, down in their heart of hearts is the right thing to do. People would rather turn a blind eye, and pretend they didn't see anything, than risk personal harm, or any other damage....to help someone else. When asked why they didn't turn in the tape to the authorities, Vince Doria, who is the head of ESPN news, stated on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio sports channel, that he doesn't think it's ESPN's role to play detective and turn in evidence to the police. He stated that as journalists, it isn't their job to turn over any evidence that happens to come their way. Well Vince, what if it had been your child? What if it had been your child that had been assaulted, and it could have been prevented, had someone done what was the morally right thing to do, and that's turn over everything they had, to stop a predator! Be a human being!
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