tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post111116355139469531..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Corruption Hearings Across the UniverseKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1111335829998766882005-03-20T08:23:00.000-08:002005-03-20T08:23:00.000-08:00Baseball is a protected monopoly. Kind of like the...Baseball is a protected monopoly. Kind of like the lit-world through things like the National Book Awards, which couldn't exist without the government's 501c3 law.<BR/>Canseco is a stooge, but he's so transparent in his constant scamming that he's almost likable. The Lee Klein of the baseball world.<BR/>Did anyone read Michael Chabon's gushy paean to him in the NY Times a couple days ago?<BR/>Everyone tells me that Chabon is the one lit-Insider that's actually good-- I don't buy it myself. Maybe I should read more of his stuff. (No doubt he's better than one-trick-pony Eggers.)<BR/>What I was doing with this post of course was try to draw parallels to the lit world.<BR/>-KW <BR/>What surprises me is the way a supposedly sharp guy like Dave Eggers embraces Moody and Bissell-- both of whom are unredeemably corrupt. (The clue to understanding Bissell is not his shoddy profile on the ULA, or his plagiarism-- laziness at best-- but at the way he's ingratiated himself with key lit-establishment Insiders like Birkerts-- himself a noted ass-kisser when he was young-- and Jonathan Franzen, but also Dave Eggers himself. But ALSO Bissell's hatchet job on his own father, in Harper's a few months ago, written merely to please Lord Lapham and justify the Dem candidate, says a lot about his lack of scruples.)<BR/>Finally, underestimating opponents by dismissing them as "crazy" isn't an intelligent move.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1111255254119304112005-03-19T10:00:00.000-08:002005-03-19T10:00:00.000-08:00Baseball pays a price for their anti-trust status....Baseball pays a price for their anti-trust status.<BR/>Re: McGwire. There's a saying to the effect that who the gods raise up they also bring down. Call it karma. Or balance in the universe.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1111192886557702532005-03-18T16:41:00.000-08:002005-03-18T16:41:00.000-08:00Running with the baseball thing, this steroid mess...Running with the baseball thing, this steroid mess is largely the fault of Major League Baseball itself >>> pussy leadership at the top. MLB hasn't had a decent commissioner in at least 15 years. <BR/><BR/>Canseco is no heroic whistle-blower. In my opinion he's a sleazy dude who only wrote the Juiced book because he's broke and seeking the spotlight again. It's obvious that he could care less about the integrity of the game, or he wouldn't have taken so many steroids himself. Apparently his training routine was: take the needle and skip the gym!<BR/><BR/>Now that the "House Committee on Government Reform" (huh-huh) is involved in this, it's likely to turn into a nonsensical witch-hunt.<BR/><BR/>How do we choose which heroes to throw in the trash bin? If someone used steroids experimentally in the 80s, is his whole career down the toilet? <BR/><BR/>Performance-enhancing drugs shouldn't have a place in sports, but media/political sensationalism spurred by a tell-all book from a discredible source is no way to fix the problem. Why don't we bring back Joe McCarthy while we're at it? Or call Sammy the Bull Gravano as a star witness. <BR/><BR/>Baseball needed to lay the smack down on steroids years ago. You can bet Mr. Reactionary Bud Selig will do it now, after he's been sitting on his ass for years, sticking pins into a voodoo doll of Pete Rose and making stupid rules for the all-star game.<BR/><BR/>-Pat SimonelliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com