A Murderer Caught, Baseball Finally Gets It Right, Our Tax Dollars in Action and the Death of an Idiot

 You would think playing in the NFL with a future Hall of Fame QB,

earning $40 million would be enough...

First let me start by saying it's been a while and for that I am sorry. Many a change has gone on in my world and now that things are settling down a bit, things can get back to normal. With that being said, wow has there been a LOT that has happened over the last few weeks! I have so much on my mind and probably not enough time or space to let everyone in on my insights. I have to start somewhere so lets start with that total horses' ass Aaron Hernandez and the waste of life he actually is.

I am sure that sounds harsh but let me put it to you this way. If you or I had even a shred of this man's physical, god given talents, I am inclined to believe that we would use those as he appeared to be using them; to become one of the premier tight ends in the NFL, playing with a future Hall of Famer in Tom Brady, going to the Super Bowl, on a perennial championship contender, signed to a long term $40 million contract. One would think that trying to harness his physical gifts towards becoming a Champion would encompass and consume his daily life but apparently not to this shit for brains.

 This was more his style then wearing the red, white and blue of the Patriots

Instead, he choose to remain firmly entrenched in the (trying not to laugh) "Thugs" who grew up in his "hood" in....wait for it, CONNECTICUT! Are you kidding me? The word Connecticut should never, in any way, shape or form, be associated with the hood. I would be embarrassed if I was a "gang banger" from Connecticut. But yet, that's what he was. I guess for evil purposes, even gangster wannabes in a vanilla state like that are good enough as the fools he used to hang out with as a teen, who nearly derailed his future back then, were able to somehow keep a hold on this moron to the point where not only is he most likely going to go to jail for murder for the rest of his life (for what he is alleged to have done 2 months ago), but he is also under investigation in a double homicide committed over a year ago which may have been committed as a drive by in a car he rented around the same time.

WHY WASN'T HE CHAINED TO THE F-ING WEIGHT ROOM IN GILLETTE STADIUM!?!?!

 Get used to the cuffs buddy, you will be someones b*tch within a year

What is it with people not being able to deal with success now? To a certain extent you can understand if someone hates their poor life when they have nothing but when you have everything and it still isn't enough? Sorry, no sympathy for you.

Which leads us right to this Glee moron who for all intents and purposes, had everything going for him. he could sing and dance, could act apparently too, was on a hit show (although how Glee ever became a hit is BEYOND me) and yet it wasn’t enough. I apologize in advance to anyone who may not like where I am going to go with my commentary on this idiots death but to me, he threw his life away and I have no sympathy for him at all.

Given how I feel about this guy, a perfectly appropriate photo

He had fortune and fame and a hot ass girlfriend who was his co-star. What else could he have possibly wanted more? Apparently a needle in the arm was what he wanted more. Unable to stop himself from using drugs, his death should be turned into THE story all parents teach their children about the old parable of “be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.” This moron literally had everything anyone could ever want, just like Aaron Hernandez. The only difference was he killed himself to waste his talents away instead of others but they are essentially the same story about a person unable to deal with and properly use all the god-given natural ability they were blessed with.

Fortune, fame and this beautiful woman at his side weren't enough for this loser

Hopefully his story will be told over and over again to help the next generation learn from his mistakes

Continuing with the whole “drugs” theme, we come to Major League Baseball and the recent suspensions that were levied against 13 players, 12 of which openly took their medicine and are now service 50 game suspensions. Again, I have no sympathy for these guys because first of all, the fact that they had enough talent to GET to the Big Leagues wasn’t enough for them, they had to push the envelope and take illegal drugs to enhance their performance even more. Some of the more notable players to admit their mistake and take their punishment like men were Everth Cabrera of the San Diego Padres, Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers and Jhonny Perralta of the Detroit Tigers (who had the forethought to acquire a god young Shortstop before they knew of his fate, keeping them in 1^st place in the AL Central Division).

 At least these three guys took their punishment like men

Melky Cabrera of the Blue Jays was also involved in this Biogenesis anti-aging lab scandal but he was suspended last year for his part. Also, realizing that this was a lost season for his Milwaukee Brewers and already playing hurt, Ryan Braun (who was caught in a drug test for using HGH and then as able to get off on a technicality) took his punishment (a 65 game suspension) like a man as well, despite having blatantly lied about the same thing only 18 months ago.

Ryan Braun came clean once all the evidence was stacked up right in front of him

65 games was probably not enough of a suspension given how he lied

Despite all of this, the real prize that commissioner Bud Selig wanted to nail to his mantle piece (as a way of trying to correct his own failures to go after drug cheats in the past) was Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod (or A-Fraud as I like to call him) already admitted to using steroids back from 2001 to 2004 so his inability to admit to using HGH (human growth hormone) this time has nothing to do with the truth of the matter (he is a perpetual liar and clearly did use them given the mountain of evidence against him) but rather the 5 years and $100 million left on his deal with the New York Yankees.

I guess when someone told Braun that he should try to emulate A-Fraud,

he took them too literally

This is a man who cheated on and filed for divorce from his wife while she was 8 month pregnant with his twin girls so this kind of “truth” coming out about him is not even close to surprising. The fact he got 211 games as part of his suspension (the rest of this year plus all of next season), to me, was actually a light sentence as he should have been banned for life the way Shoeless Joe Jackson was (despite the fact there was LESS evidence against HIM!).

A-Fraud needs to be out of baseball for life. 

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was kicked out with less proof then this clown

A-Fraud will probably get a reduction in his suspension and is playing while that process plays out but it’s a shame that he will essentially get paid anything from this point on. Here is a guy who has earned over $350 million in his career and he is so greedy that he is, according to him “fighting for his life” and trying to protect his bogus image that everyone has already long ago seen through. A-Fraud should be out of Baseball.

 Hold on their Magic, it wasn't all Peaches and Cream after the trade...

Tomorrow is the 25^th anniversary of “The Trade”. Wayne Gretzky was dealt from the Edmonton Oilers to La La Land as the LA Kings suddenly became relevant when then Oilers owner Peter Pocklington ran out of money fighting the unions at his meat packing plants and needed $15 million just to stay afloat. He can and has denied it all he wants but the trade was made because he knew he couldn't afford to keep the team together and was not willing to pay Wayne and the rest of the team what they were worth so he dealt them when he could make a killing off of them. It was hailed as the turning point in the US for hockey as new teams started popping up all over the sunbelt. Many a sports writer has proclaimed this as the biggest turn for Hockey.

Bruce McNall (Top right) made back the money he spent "buying" Wayne within 6 months

and was well on his way to making quite a few rich guys losing almost all their money trying to copy him

I  am here to tell you it was the worst move for the sport and at least 15 different owners who have come and gone as owners of those same sunbelt teams and it very nearly killed hockey in Western Canada (all of Canada except for Montreal and Toronto). Almost immediately after the Oilers began to dismantle their dynasty, all the Western Canadian teams started to see their pocketbooks suffer as well. This was of course also largely due to the low Canadian dollar at that time but the Gretzky trade was a harbinger of bad times in Canadian hockey.

Almost as if on cue, relocation of northern based teams to southern locations and expansion to the Sunbelt started to take over. Minnesota lost it's team to Dallas and as a byproduct, San Jose got an expansion team. Within 10 years of the trade, Hartford (moved to Carolina), Winnipeg (moved to Phoenix to lose $330 million in the last 11 years) and Quebec (moved to Colorado) along with new teams in Anaheim, Miami, Tampa Bay, Atlanta and Nashville. Atlanta was such a horrible ownership situation that at least the league was able to correct the error of losing Winnipeg and moved that franchise back to a place that has embraced it but many of the others (if not all of them) have had some form of ownership issues since their inception. Even Columbus, another expansion team that came in with the "wildly" successful Minnesota expansion team, has had financial problems.

Between the 9 new teams introduced to the league since the trade, almost all of them have come about as a direct result of the Gretzky deal and the stupid notion at the NHL head office that people in the US Sunbelt want to watch hockey, forgetting almost entirely about Canada and the northern US states that live, breathe and die the game all winter long. I am sure some will point to the equalization program that the league used to try to help Canadian teams when the Canadian dollar was hovering around $0.62 US but the real problem could be linked back to the league's failure to get a hard salary cap back in 1994 which would have prevented most of those cash strapped teams from having to worry about paying players more then they could afford to.

 Its too bad the NHL can't seem to see the problem with so many Sunbelt teams 

all having severe financial issues (at various times) over the last 20 years

Going back to the 9 new expansion teams and the teams that relocated since the trade for a minute, between them, there have been more then 20 different owners of these teams as well as 3 of them being on the verge of bankruptcy, ownership turmoil and infighting, NHL Ownership of franchises and billions of dollars lost trying to keep these failing franchises around and all because Mr. Bettman refuses to acknowledge that his Sunbelt idea has failed miserably. The problem is, there continues to be morons who believe as he does, that these teams can survive. And all because of one trade that started the dominoes falling.

Forced to coach to save his investment, Wayne wasn't great at it. 

He is STILL owed $25 million 

For all the success that the Sharks have in San Jose, there is the Coyote situation in Phoenix which, despite yet another group of suckers, err, investors buying the team and trying to get them to work in Phoenix, is the money pit of the league. Oh and hey, lets not forget the $25 million that the team still owes to Wayne which led to him actually coaching that sad sack team for 3 years.

Sorry for the delay in getting a new post up.

New one will be up shortly.

Until next time....