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The Tragic State of Today’s Sports

A Day Later Hamlin Wins

After a crazy day of on-again, off-again rain, the Daytona 500 ran on Monday instead of Sunday, and it turned out to be a pretty crazy race. Lots of what I guess they are calling bump drafting lead to some pretty serious accidents. But can you really call them accidents when someone is essentially performing a PIT maneuver on the car in front of them? I’m not so sure.

When you get right down to it, it certainly looked like Ryan Blaney intentionally tried to run right through Ryan Newman’s number 6 car as he was trying to go from 3rd to 1st in the final lap of the race. You could see he tried to push past the eventual winner, Hamlin, up at the top of the track and unable to get around him from 3rd into 2nd place, Blaney moved down the lane to the inside. Newman blocked him as you would figure the guy in first place would do so…Blaney performed a PIT maneuver and pushed Newman’s back tires out of alignment…at nearly 200 miles per hour. What do you think happened next?

Yup, Newman, ended up in a horrible crash while Blaney raced against Hamlin for the checkered flag.

I can’t really call that an accident…just like I can’t buy the victim-hood of the next segment.

Astros Feel Persecuted

I really feel so sorry the Houston Astros feel the rest of the MLB world doesn’t like them. They feel like they are being attacked, and players like Mike Trout and Cory Bellinger don’t know what it’s like to have to cheat for a World Series.

These guys are getting away without any official punishment, so what recourse is there? The Commissioner is an idiot who gave the players immunity for nothing. The Players Union certainly won’t penalize it’s own. So what, the fans are gonna boo them during games? How is there any justice for a team that used surveillance technology to cheat? And they won the World Series!!!! Oh, I’m so sorry they have to live with the fact that their manager and general manager got fired – boohoo! They have NO repercussions.

How are children supposed to see what happened to the ACTUAL CHEATERS and think that they shouldn’t try to cheat themselves – obviously, you won’t get punished and hey – you might even win the World Series.

Just when MLB is happily putting the stupid and commissioner endorsed steroids problem behind them, the Astros pull this crap.

As one person I heard mention – the first inning that a pitcher who throws at one of these CHEATERS is suspended will be more punishment than the entire group of cheaters got for ruining the reputation of the sport.

This is pathetic!

It’s a Wrap

There you have it. Two events that go to show the crummy state of the sporting world today. A bunch of cheaters who get caught but suffer ZERO penalty and a driver who intentionally tried to kill an opponent and gets second place.

I’m seriously concerned that these idiots ARE just big babies who don’t know anything about the real world. They don’t know it’s not OK to cheat. They don’t know it’s not OK to try to kill you, opponents.

What is wrong with society that these are the sports stars people supposedly admire?

So sad!

Ramble 2020.01.03 | So Sad!