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Eastwood

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  1. Here's the thing that makes me absolutely livid about this... Cheating happens all the time in baseball. At all levels. All levels. The MLB itself cheats the game by juicing the ball. Players juiced to the absolute gills. Pitchers have been putting every substance known to man on the ball for an edge. Scuffing the ball. Pine tar. Snot. Whatever for an extra inch of movement. Corking bats and getting caught red handed. But almighty baseball and their decrepit, old as fuck, unwritten rules loving core fan base picks and chooses what is "real" cheating and what isn't. Teams knew what the Astros were doing DURING THE SEASON, as evidenced by mound visits and changing of strategy during the game, and don't say jack shit. People are willing to suspend belief and pretend like the players weren't talking about this behind closed doors while it was happening and sat on it because they were all doing some form of this one way or another. People want to pretend like the MLB home office didn't already hear about this while it was happening and sat on it the way MLB sits on everything. Red Sox did it with Apple watches but nobody cares because they didn't win anything using it. But Mike grows a conscious all of a sudden, goes to the press, and now because the media got its teeth into it and now the MLB is all fire and brimstone and shocked, absolutely shocked that cheating is going on in America's past time of only the holiest of holy integrity and sacred worship of all that is unwritten tradition. So now all of these players who have shared locker rooms with guys who cheat and said absolutely dick about it and continue to look the other way are getting their soundbites in, getting in their shots so as to appear to be above the cheating fray, but we all know how this is going to end. It's going to come out after all the damage is done to Houston that 16 other teams did this, too, and some of the guys dropping hot sound bites will be popped for some other form of unsanctioned cheating, but people aren't going to give near as much of a fuck as they did when Houston did it. Because that's how sports roll. The only thing people care about is how much blood you can put in the water to feed the frenzy. And if you're an East Coast media darling team that gets ESPN paid like the proven, multi-time champions of cheating NE Patriots, or the "no price is to high, no crime is too big" SEC, then who cares, still a dynasty, bruh. If the Yankees won a World Series and it came out this was happening, it would be "sign stealing has always been a part of the game. It's just more sophisticated now." Fuck, man, when Barry Bonds' head and hands grew 5 sizes in one summer from replacing his entire blood supply with the stem cells of 1,000 baby fetus, you still had people in the media saying "it doesn't put the bat on the ball for him! He still has to hit it!" And I'll say this: Mike Fiers isn't some hero in the front office behind closed doors. He went outside the family on this one. MLB will crush anyone who says that publicly and will continue to laud him as a catalyst towards "bringing integrity back to the game," but lets be real here. This is the same league that punted for as long as possible on juiced players because the home runs brought more eyeballs. It wasn't until the media started pushing the issue did the righteous indignation popped up. Mike Fiers brewed up a shit storm and nobody in the MLB front office is happy about this. Oakland isn't happy about this. That locker room just lost a little extra "sanctity" over this. A's players will be looking over their shoulder a little more with a guy known to spill the locker room secrets around them. Fiers is in his contract year this year. He had a fantastic first year. If he has anything less than a stellar year, the A's aren't re-signing him. MLB is quietly hoping that Fiers does everyone a favor and fades into the background. There. That's it. This is everything that I've been quietly ranting to myself about in traffic for the past two months. Now some 65 year old baseball purist can chime in and tell me how I don't know dick about the "real history" of the game and why what the Astros did was somehow different than the thousands of instances of systemic, continuous, and premeditated cheating that happens every season. It's either cheating or it's not. Either it's all punished or none of it is punished. Unwritten rules, my ass.
  2. Dozier's is on my way to family, so I go by there at least once a month. Anywhere that has you running the pit gets my business. Looking forward to it.
  3. According to the Dan Patrick Show a couple of weeks ago, Dan's source in the NFLPA had said they have tried to intervene and basically hold an intervention with AB, but he very clearly and aggressively told them to gtfo.
  4. Predators and prey always have a way of finding each other in these situations. This is on the very extreme side of the scale, but we all knew a sheltered girl who went off to college and just so happened to attract the biggest piece of shit on campus who then methodically mentally and emotionally abuses her until she essentially becomes his property. I'm assuming there is an element of that here for some of the victims.
  5. Old Austin died and New Austin is already dead, too. Austin is just another big city, now.
  6. 5 years later after Gus started his downturn? Fun. Should have been immediate.
  7. Jones doesn't give rematches to close fights.
  8. I had it 3-2. I would say that Reyes lost it in the last minute of the last round, but it's hard to overcome the stupidity of 49-46.
  9. Tennessee is the bigger offender in that. Has been an absolute dumpster fireonger than UT but still rakes in top 5 recruiting classes, regardless of coach.
  10. For the record, I coined the term Cocktopus. You're all welcome.
  11. The way it looks is that he continued after consent was revoked or continued because he took her actions to be implied consent. Did he get away with a crime, especially under today's standards for consent? I think so. Now, did he get away with a crime and use that opportunity to pursue further criminal activity? It doesn't appear so. In fact, it appears to be the exact opposite. The amount of outreach and charity that has come to light in his passing is actually very surprising in a positive way. He did a lot of things behind the scenes that he wanted zero publicity for. The article posted some pages back about the Colorado incident shaking up his life in a way that led him to revamp who he was as a person off of the basketball court is backed up by a lot of evidence. I'm not saying he should be applauded because he raped a girl, but his actions after should at least keep his legacy from being thrown into the scrap heap.
  12. It's possible that the fatality rate without treatment is that high. It would explain why it is lower in other countries. No other country has had its Healthcare system overwhelmed, yet.
  13. As a brief aside, this movie came out when I was a freshman in college and all of them looked old as fuck when it first released. Now I think Paul Rudd looks young here and it hurts my soul.
  14. Apparently, being "a little rapey" gets you a boost in the polls these days.
  15. Biden's brain is mush and he still thinks it's 1997. He needs to sit down, shut up, and take the occasional round of applause at various D events he lends his visible support to.
  16. In 2016, all they had to do to win was not run Hillary Clinton. In 2020, all they have to do to win is look more competent than Donald Trump. C'mon, guys, get your shit together.
  17. Watching the recruiting film of an OU LB, Wort or whatever his name was, on Shaggy and it had Wort absolutely blindside a big left tackle 30 yards away from the play after the RB broke loose. Totally up-ended the dude and the hit had absolutely zero impact on the play. I called it a cheap shot and got unanimously negged. "That's how the game is played!" "Gotta keep your head on a swivel!" "This isn't a sport for pussies!" Seems like the only people parroting those lines these days are a bunch of dudes who were physical early bloomers who got a kick out of smashing people smaller than them. And I say that as someone who played for 10 years at all school levels until graduation in a football factory school district. There were dudes who wanted to play the game and there were dudes who wanted to hurt people without consequences.
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