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Posted Monday June 29, 2009, About: D-Back responds to mocking fans
Julian "One Screw Loose" Tavarez did the exact same thing to me and a couple of friends at an Indianapolis Indians(AAA) game. We were giving him some flack(good-natured/no personal attacks) in the first base bullpen and he was giving a little back. Well...at the end of the game, he said "it's been nice chatting with you guys", got up...started walking away...and then he turned around and said "here you go guys" and commenced to fake toss two balls our way. We all started lundging towards the expected landing point of the ball...that he actually just underhanded about 8 feet into the air and back into his hands...

It was great...and I laughed at our embarrassment as much as the next guy.
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
We all make choices in life. We weigh the reward vs the penalty. He decided the enjoyment he would get out of training and fighting dogs, as well as financing an illegal gambling operation, out-weighed the possible penalties. The ability to reason and make rational decisions is what makes us a superior on this planet. He made his decision and he had to pay the piper.

Nobody can say he did not know how serious the penalties could be...Vick knew it was illegal, that is why he did not have the house in his name. That is why these fights are help in secrecy. I have no sympathy for the man...at all. When this is all over, he will have paid his debt to society. I will wish him the best and hope that he has done some soul-searching during the past xx months. I wish him success in whatever he decides to do and hope our prison system has successfully helped him see the error of his ways...that is what prison is "supposed" to do...right?
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
I think it is more unfortunate that some people think people shouldn't be punished for breaking the law.
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
Heck yeah it did...he was probably looking in the mirror thinking "I thought I was Mike Vick?"

Vick has had people digging him out of his holes since he was a kid. While I don't blame anyone but Vick for his actions, this is the kind of thing that happens when people don't set proper boundries and follow through on punishments...
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
I hear what you are saying...but it was not the dog fighting that got him in trouble. If he had been holding illegal poker games across state lines, he would have been charged with the exact same thing. In the court of public opinion though, the poker case would not have been a big deal because it isn't s3xy to talk about or get up in arms over.

One of the issues that seems to be forgotten here is Mike Vick's attitude about the whole thing when he got caught. He had the "I'm Mike Vick, so ain't nothing going to happen to me" attitude...this attitude was very obvious when media questioned him and even carried over to law enforcement and during preliminary court proceedings. He probably would have gotten a lighter sentence if that attitude had not prevailed.
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
yes, it is...but the time spent in jail was not for the actual dog fighting...it was for the gambling operation that he was helping to run.
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
The court of public opinion only wants to talk about the dog fighting and how horrible it was, because that is much more interesting than talking about what he really got charged with...financing and participating in an illegal interstate gambling operation.

The charge of cruelity to animals is secondary in this case...and is only a misdemeanor.
Posted Friday March 06, 2009, About: Inside Michael Vick's mansion
He did not get punished for the dog fighting. He got punished for financing an illegal interstate gambling operation. That is illegal.
Posted Monday February 09, 2009, About: Why Rangers signed Andruw Jones
Jones celebrated the signing of his new contract by eating his pen...
Posted Friday February 06, 2009, About: Yankees not out of Andruw Jones mix
To show how serious Andruw is about his comeback, Boras has informed teams that Jones is willing to waive all salary for the coming season to prove himself worthy of a roster spot. The only condition is that whatever teams picks him up must put his locker directly in between a Krispy Kreme and the Golden Arches...
Posted Thursday December 11, 2008, About: Market closing on Varitek
Contracts are not allowed to be performace driven like that. You can, however, base it on milestones...such as number of at bats, games started, weight met (Schilling).
Posted Friday November 28, 2008, About: Marbury doesn't trust D'Antoni
And flank him with Sprewell...
Posted Friday November 28, 2008, About: Marbury doesn't trust D'Antoni
AMEN! Do your f'n job! And your job is to do what your superiors tell you to do...period! (within moral and ethical bounds of course). In the real world, if you don't like what your boss is telling you to do, you do it anyways and **** about it later to your wife...
Posted Friday November 28, 2008, About: Marbury doesn't trust D'Antoni
A superior in the company (team) that you work for...that's who...
Posted Friday November 28, 2008, About: Marbury doesn't trust D'Antoni
All you people saying the Knicks are at fault here are completely missing the boat. Listen...If I sign a contract with an IT Contracting company for x years, they are free to do with me as they please. They are my boss.

So, unless Marbury's contract says the Knicks will keep him emotionally happy, and guarantees playing time at a specific position (in addition to the $22M), he needs to shut the heck up and do whatever the Knicks want him to do on the court.

As far as I am concerned, if a coach tells a player that his job is to rebound and not take a single shot, then it is insubordination if he does otherwise. Obviously that is an extreme scenario, but not much different than my boss telling me what my job is and then turning around and doing something else...
Posted Thursday September 25, 2008, About: Mementos of Vick's son sold to pay bills
He is not in jail for animal cruelity (spelling), he is in jail for hosting illegal gambling and going across state lines to gamble illegally....that is why he is behind bars...
Posted Friday September 19, 2008, About: A-Rod, wife reach divorce settlement
She is being the greedy little ho...

She wants half of the money accumulated during the marriage (valid)
She wants child support in addition to that (questionable because the above amount should be plenty to maintain the lifestyle)
On top of all of that, she wants alimoney to maintain the high level of living they are used to (this is was truely makes her the gold digger...don't you think half of the money he made during their marriage is enough to maintain this lifestyle?)
Posted Thursday September 11, 2008, About: Shaq plans to play two more seasons
Punctuation is not a bad thing.
Posted Thursday September 11, 2008, About: Hoosiers' recruiting class rises
Verbal commitment means nothing...write an article when the kid actually enrolls...
Posted Wednesday September 03, 2008, About: State Farm Blasts LPGA English Proficiency Policy
thats exactly what state farm said. way to read into a story exactly what you want to believe.

these ladies are not even U.S. citizens. What right does the LPGA have to force them to speak english.
MATTUSA | 09/03/08, 11:50 AM
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The LPGA is a private employer...they can set the job requirements as they please. It is not someone RIGHT to play on the LPGA. I don't have a problem with this...

Listen...if someone wants to come to our country and collect the benefits of being in this country, they should learn the language.

If I was going to go live/work in Germany (or any other given country) because I thought they offered more for my and my family, I would not expect the country to adapt to my language. If one of my job requirements was to interact with German's, and I chose not to learn the language, It would be nobody's fault but my own if I got canned.
Posted Wednesday August 27, 2008, About: Koreans react to LPGA English policy
It has nothing to do with ratings. All of you get off your liberal high-horses...


I am sure there had probably been a behind the scenes push to have the players learn english for a while. My guess is that a few of the star foreigners have refused to do so...

The LPGA is, and has been, stuggling to survive for a long time. Securing sponsorship is what keeps these tours going. This is a effort to generate more income for the tour. If they generate more income for the tour, these foreigners can say "thank you" in English when their winnings get bigger too.

You can't compare a team sport (Yao or Ichiro example from above) to that of golf. Whole cities, states, regions get behind a TEAM and purchase apparal (revenue) and such. Regions don't buy Cory Pavin or Paula Creamer shirts...and even if they did, they are not branded by the LPGA...and that equals no revenue for them.

The ONLY way a golf tour can exist is with sponsors...period. If their stars can't relate to sponsors, their tour will cease to exist.

Get past the fact that this will make a few people open a book or purchase the Rosetta Stone software (the first Korean to learn English with that software has a great opportunity for endorsements...).

It is no different than NFL/NBA rookies having to go through rookie orientation to learn how not to be a thug (and I don't mean just black people...so don't go there) any more...If players act like thugs, the league can't market them...

This is no different...if the players can't communicate with the money, the money will go elsewhere...
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