Need to vent and you special people can be there to help me.
Peter King, someone I normally like reading – except about his daughter and his coffee addiction – has been getting on my nerves lately.
Last week he wrote about how the NFL network going to a “pay tier” on Comcast was the right thing because those that want it can pay for it but those “who don't want the channel will not have their basic cable bill jacked up by nearly $10 a year.”
If that is his belief, fine. My problem is in the very next section he writes that he doesn’t like to have to pay a $9 fee to use the gyms in the hotel’s he stays at on the road. Per King, “All we want in a workout room on the road is a few stepmills, some treadmills and elliptical trainers. Can't you give us that without charging us?” Hey Pete, all the NFL fans want is to watch football without having to pay a fee. Can’t you give us THAT without charging us?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/05/13/steelers/2.html
In this weeks article he writes the following:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/05/18/mmqb/2.html
"Say good-bye to that high moral ground, Bob. The Patriots ... put their standards on the shelf in the quest for victory. They might be the best team in football, but the Patriots are no longer 'different' from all the other NFL organizations.''
-- Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, to Patriots owner Bob Kraft, in the wake of the Patriots trading for serial loafer Randy Moss and drafting safety Brandon Meriweather in the first round. Meriweather fired gunshots at an assailant last year, and also stomped on a Florida International player during the infamous Miami-FIU brawl.
Again, I have no issue if that is what he believes but then he writes about Mike Vick “We forgive in America, most often when a person who is truly sorry appears before us.” So if we are forgiving people, should Moss and Merriweather be forgiven and given a chance? I’m confused.
As his example on forgiveness he wrote “Remember Luis Castillo? He was about to get embarrassed by a positive steroid test before the 2005 draft, and he contacted all 32 teams with a pre-emptive strike, explaining why he tested positive and how he'd never use steroids again. He got picked in the first round, hasn't had a whit of a problem since, and has been an Eagle Scout off the field.”
This incident was one that really bothered me at the time and still does. Maybe the injury that Castillo claimed was real and that he only used the steroids to regain the strength he lost to be able to perform at the combine. He was rewarded by being selected in the first round. My question would be what is to stop a guy that was incredibly productive but is not the most physically gifted athlete from doing the same thing. Say Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny decided to do the same thing and cited his knee injury? At the combine Posluszny was listed at 6’1, 238 and he ran a 4.7 40 yard dash with 22 reps on the bench. Say he goes into the combine – after taking roids – and weighs 245-250, runs the 40 in 4.5 and benches 225 28 times. Think he would have been drafted in round one? I do. What is to stop the next guy from doing roids JUST to get drafted high then never doing them again in the NFL AFTER he gets paid millions?
Is it just me on this?
Peter King, someone I normally like reading – except about his daughter and his coffee addiction – has been getting on my nerves lately.
Last week he wrote about how the NFL network going to a “pay tier” on Comcast was the right thing because those that want it can pay for it but those “who don't want the channel will not have their basic cable bill jacked up by nearly $10 a year.”
If that is his belief, fine. My problem is in the very next section he writes that he doesn’t like to have to pay a $9 fee to use the gyms in the hotel’s he stays at on the road. Per King, “All we want in a workout room on the road is a few stepmills, some treadmills and elliptical trainers. Can't you give us that without charging us?” Hey Pete, all the NFL fans want is to watch football without having to pay a fee. Can’t you give us THAT without charging us?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/05/13/steelers/2.html
In this weeks article he writes the following:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/05/18/mmqb/2.html
"Say good-bye to that high moral ground, Bob. The Patriots ... put their standards on the shelf in the quest for victory. They might be the best team in football, but the Patriots are no longer 'different' from all the other NFL organizations.''
-- Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, to Patriots owner Bob Kraft, in the wake of the Patriots trading for serial loafer Randy Moss and drafting safety Brandon Meriweather in the first round. Meriweather fired gunshots at an assailant last year, and also stomped on a Florida International player during the infamous Miami-FIU brawl.
Again, I have no issue if that is what he believes but then he writes about Mike Vick “We forgive in America, most often when a person who is truly sorry appears before us.” So if we are forgiving people, should Moss and Merriweather be forgiven and given a chance? I’m confused.
As his example on forgiveness he wrote “Remember Luis Castillo? He was about to get embarrassed by a positive steroid test before the 2005 draft, and he contacted all 32 teams with a pre-emptive strike, explaining why he tested positive and how he'd never use steroids again. He got picked in the first round, hasn't had a whit of a problem since, and has been an Eagle Scout off the field.”
This incident was one that really bothered me at the time and still does. Maybe the injury that Castillo claimed was real and that he only used the steroids to regain the strength he lost to be able to perform at the combine. He was rewarded by being selected in the first round. My question would be what is to stop a guy that was incredibly productive but is not the most physically gifted athlete from doing the same thing. Say Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny decided to do the same thing and cited his knee injury? At the combine Posluszny was listed at 6’1, 238 and he ran a 4.7 40 yard dash with 22 reps on the bench. Say he goes into the combine – after taking roids – and weighs 245-250, runs the 40 in 4.5 and benches 225 28 times. Think he would have been drafted in round one? I do. What is to stop the next guy from doing roids JUST to get drafted high then never doing them again in the NFL AFTER he gets paid millions?
Is it just me on this?
