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WHO CARES!

Oscar season irritates me to no end. One thing I cannot stand is these talking heads on TV blabbing on about who is the favorite or the least favorite. It is as if they believe this garbage matters.

It is sickening to see these Hollywood types patting each other on the back for making sums of money that make pro athletes seem like paupers.

One thing I will not be doing on Sunday is watching the Oscars.

Bud Selig has Shamed the Game

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Bud Selig, yesterday, said, "What Alex did was wrong and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation." This from an AP article.

If you have not heard, A-Rod confessed to using "performance drugs" while he was a member of the Texas Rangers. (The Democrats will probably try to blame this on George W. Bush since he once owned the Rangers, although that was before A-Rod's stint in Texas.)

The real shame on the great game of baseball is Selig. Let's review his tenure, now almost 15 years in the making:

• His reinstatement of George Steinbrenner in 1993;
  
• Canceled World Series in 1994 (Probably the Montreal Expos only shot to win one);
• Marge Schott and her racist rhetoric followed by a ban then reinstatement;
• The tie-game at the 2002 All-Star game;
• To solve the tie-game problem, now the All-Star game "means something";
• The wild card (ugh! a wild card belongs in a poker game or the NFL);
• Major games (All-Star game and World Series) that start way too late on the east coast;
• Moving most of the playoffs to cable television;
• The NFL racing past the MLB as America's pasttime;
  
• and the biggest mess of the Selig tenure: STEROIDS!

Ol' Bud covered his eyes and plugged his ears as players (A-Rod was far from the only one) who juiced up. Home runs went up, along with attendance and revenue. Bud has been asleep at the wheel for a decade and a half now.

It's time, Bud. Get out. Just leave! Bud Selig's tenure as commissioner should have a giant asterisk (*) next to it. If A-Rod is suspended, so should everyone else. Selig should be suspended for dereliction of duty and ruining the grand game of baseball.

I Admire a Pot Smoker

Do not get me wrong. I think smoking marijuana is an awful thing to do. It messes up the brain. Michael Phelps exhibited horrible judgment when he decided to light up.

I admire him because he came out and admitted that what he did was wrong. He did not equivocate ala President Clinton: "I didn't inhale."

Phelps said of his ban:

"It's not my decision. It's theirs," Phelps said of USA Swimming's decision. "I have nothing to say, but if that's they want to do, that's their choice. It's something that USA Swimming came up with. It's fair. Obviously, for a mistake you should get punished."

He later said:

"It was bad and stupid judgment, and something I'll always live with," Phelps said.

(These quotes are from an ESPN article.)

Thank you, Michael Phelps for manning up and taking responsibility for what you did. You made a bad decision, but you did not blame someone else or deny the charges. We all mess up, and the best thing we can do is stand up and take responsibility for them.

Gingrich v. Lauer

Newt Gingrich absolutely cleaned Matt Lauer's clock on the Today Show today. I love: Obama in danger of becoming Jimmy Carter rather than Ronald Reagan. Also note that Gingrich states that the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s was worse than what is going on now.

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