This Is The National Pastime?
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Reminds me of Tango’s blog.
Hahahaha!!
now cut that out!
No.
Nice one.
Both state planes flew to Teterboro Airport on Wednesday, according to tracking website FlightAware. Teterboro Airport is about a half-hour south of Volvo’s North American headquarters in Rockleigh. N.J.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article19877088.html#storylink=cpy
Stop trying to may Volvo happen, it’s not happening.
It has already happened. The present show is just that, a show.
Did you check to see if any Georgia state planes also have recently make that trek?
Georgia is pitching a 1,900 acre coastal site for Volvo planthttp://www.ajc.com/news/news/georgia-is-pitching-a-1900-acre-coastal-site-for-v/nk4L8/
Detroit, Baltimore. …Obama’s vision of an American city on a hill…
Baseball is cursed until the ‘Hit King’, Pete Rose, is allowed into the HOF.
You two idiots (oopsies my bad..the same fucking idiot) never surprise me on the sheer stupidity of your statements. Some how baseball is once again tied to Obama..in the same vein as..”dam i stubbed my toe..dam you Obama!!” or the smaller idiot FC wanting one of the biggest cheating assholes in baseball to make it into the Hall..an institution he pissed all over. Yeah you two idiots are a special kind of stupid.
Hey folks…LMAO
Looks like any other O’s game when the Yankees or Red Sox are not in town.
Bart Giamatti was a lying,chain smoking,booze drinking,high blood pressure POS that got what he deserved. Pete Rose didn’t do it too him.
He was a Red Sox fan and why I pray for him everyday. :)
The money destroyed baseball.I recall Rose signing for $100,000 in 69 or 70. Pitching dominates. They need to lower the mound again like they did because of Bob Gibson in late 60’s.
I’m sorry some of you guys missed your BALLgames, but IMO there are far more pressing issues to worry about.
Sports generates a lot of money, a lot of people love it – good for them. I only like it if it were legal to bet on, but since it isn’t, I don’t have a bookie nor much of an interest.
I think sports should be like any other business, privately funded. So let’s talk about those selective “free markets” ;)
We’ll start with Pro and work our way down to college:
Use of Taxpayer Money for Pro-Sports Arenas Draws Fresh Scrutiny
http://www.wsj.com/articles/use-of-taxpayer-money-for-pro-sports-arenas-draws-fresh-scrutiny-1425856677
College: Even Forbes contributor agrees:
“Fine, let’s suppose that football makes money. Then it will do just fine as an independent business. Get it out of the universities, and let each team pay fees for use of the university’s name, the stadium, practice fields, and parking on game days. Then the football club can pay its coaches whatever it wants, and it can pay the athletes, who are disgracefully paid nothing right now. And the university will still have its team, but without the corrupting influence of money.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2011/11/26/football-is-corrupting-americas-universities-it-needs-to-go/
Good idea.We get rid of Title 9 and eliminate all WOMENS sports that generate ZERO revenue…we finally agree on something..
Awwww….I thought this site was about free markets? Or is it just “selectively” free markets?
You never know in a truly free market, women just might kick ass! But there aren’t a lot of subsidies for females sport. I mean, seriously, how many female quarterbacks do you know?
‘free market’ ?…not a women’s team in America at ANY level in ANY sport can survive without a ’subsidie’…WNBA is best example at professional level…
I beg to differ, if there is a demand or desire for it, women will do it. You men just want to make sure your sports get the funding.
Do you support free markets? If so, sports is one that also needs to be privatized.
My biggest gripe about sports: College Football. You see what happens when people donate or the sport is subsidized, coaches get a big fat salary to recruit. Now what happens to education?
Once a sport takes off in a given college, the applications for acceptance go up. The demand for higher SAT scores go up. So only the smartest get in, yet those schools claim the highest in academic ranking. Is it education or sports?
One can argue both, but the truth is, the reason schools with better sports teams typically rank higher has little to do with classroom education and much to do with their ability to screen applicants so only the smartest get in. When the smartest do get in, they get less academic support.
Women sports? I can’t think of a single woman I have personally known that has gotten a college scholarship based on any sport. Yes, I am sure it happens, but that is not the majority.
Again – what about those free markets fc? I thought supported those? Or is it selective?
Title 9.Look it up.Leave the wine alone and become more informed. :)
Are you stalking me? LOL
I’m too old to play sports, so I prefer the wine ;). I am looking it up, and while I reserve the right to change my mind, I still favor privatizing college sports.
If I want my daughter to play sports, which I likely will, I am willing to pay for it. I really prefer she not be so athletic as intelligent, and if she must participate in sports, let it be mild. I know my days of athleticism, did not come without injury.
I also have another very athletic child, just not football – but nearly everything else. One particular sport was not funded, I managed the concession stand during high school years to help fund it. Others were opptys afforded, like skiing, wake boarding, and so on. All of which came with injuries.
Title 9 of what? SC Title 9 is “CHAPTER 9 – RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY”
Awww….you are talking Title 9 federal: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/cor/coord/titleix.php
Hmmmm…..I’ll have to do research to comment further, but you and I both know women don’t typically get into college based on sports.
Sources?
You mean the terribly boring league that’s propped up by the NBA and should’ve folded 10 years ago but doesn’t because David Stern is the commissioner of a league with a 7:1 tattoo:player ratio and thinks his commitment to the WNBA helps the NBA’s image? Yeah, that league sucks. But hey, if you want to pay for it, Dave, knock yourself out. But don’t tell people it doesn’t suck. And don’t interrupt Sportscenter with women’s highlights because you want to be politically correct (unless you like it when people change the channel). – See more at: http://www.excelliving.com/4-reasons-its-ok-to-admit-the-wnba-is-a-failure-2013-05-04-12891.html#sthash.Ddd2dRcw.dpuf
http://www.excelliving.com/4-reasons-its-ok-to-admit-the-wnba-is-a-failure-2013-05-04-12891.html
“terribly boring” – emotive opinion. Lots of women, little girls and men find it entertaining.
Players have tattoos….what’s that got to do with anything?
Your “sources” were opinion pieces. Let’s deal with facts, not misogyny. If you want Fox News type shit, take it somewhere else.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanaglass/2013/07/26/in-its-17th-season-the-wnba-continues-to-defy-odds/
Got some good news for you that sort of came in under the wire, the NFL has decided to relinquish their tax exempt status starting this year.
Roger Goodell didn’t like the “distraction” it was causing the league.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/nfl-to-end-tax-exempt-status-1430241845
That is very current – thank you. Now let’s hope college sports follow their lead ;)
Sports and rioting…gosh…it takes me all the way back to when….well, just Google “College Students Riot After Game”….and that should keep you busy for a while. Too many links to count.
It is funny (maybe ironic or strange is a better word) that so many folks elevate sports and sporting events to some kind of mythical, quasi-religious thing, no?
Guilty as charged. I am a Clemson fan through and through and have been known to unintentionally cause my young kids to get scared from all my yelling at the TV when we scored all those TD’s against the dirt peckers last year.
That doesn’t make you a worshipper…I may have yelled a few choice pieces of advice to Spurrier through the years, although evidently my 60″ LCD doesn’t actually have the capability of letting him hear me (and I *know* he can’t hear me from where my tickets are). I was talking about the people who act like the crowd missing this ball game is some kind of national tragedy. One of my guys today was in near tears, and when I told him to get a grip he looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my head…
LOL…yes, “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”.
It is a very good life lesson, and let’s face it…Americans love to win and hate to lose, which in and of itself is not bad…but I teach my kids that when you lose it’s not the end of the world.
True, indeed. Except during the USC – Clemson game… ;-)
Don’t make fun of people with dicks growing out of their heads. You might hurt GT’s feelings.
Oooops! Sorry, my mistake. He actually has a huge but hort dick, with, strangely, a pointed head, growing out of the middle of his shoulders.
Damn, you sound frighteningly like my dad. I remember him leaping out of his chair in excitement- I also remember all those shows I missed due to stupid football every weekend ;)
That’s why we have a trampoline and a rumpus room if the kids don’t like “daddy’s shows” as they call it.
We had a hilly front yard to play in if we didn’t like daddy’s show, or we could also exercise the option to go to the bedroom. I did find it a bit fun to place non-monetary bets on who was going to win. I still remember the day my team Oakland Raiders beat Dallas Cowboys. I hope I got that right, but at one point I knew who the quarter back was for Oakland Raiders – he was my hero. I won the bet! :)
If you were truly a Clemson fan through and through you wouldn’t have been watching that game on TV.
How many decades has it been now, since baseball really was the national passtime?
Game took less than two and a half hours – something to the idea…
Put down the bong, amigo.