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AMazur Tektite                  Since: 07-02-06 Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6289 days |
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| Ok...so you may or may not have heard a couple weeks ago these two NBA teams had a pretty big brawl and there were many suspensions being served the most severe of which went to one Carmello Anthony of the Nuggets. He was indirectly fined $3,000,000! (200k per game x 15 games). Basically he antagonized and trash talked...maybe hit a guy. A professional athlete hit a guy, not a powerful punch mind you; 3 million dollars.
Maybe you remember one Ron Artest jumping into the stands and pummeling a fan for throwing a cup at him. Or a certain University of Miami home football game in which several Miami students kicked and slapped the opposing team clearing the bench of both teams. Well...I know you've heard about it. I'm sure you thought about it. Maybe you thought it was detrimental to sports or maybe you watched it with excited eyes rooting for more violence. What you probably didn't think was what it'd be like if it was you. You're busting your ass pitching, never did anything wrong and you had a bad day maybe. When you show to practice and there's an annoying cameraman right up in your face who won't stop walking toward you and pestering you, you may want to just take his camera and smash it over his ugly face. You don't; instead you try to hold your anger and politely tell him to back up and turn the camera off. Well he persists so you try to take his camera away. Then everyone hates you for a month and you're forced to recite a written apology assembled by lawyers. All this, God damnit, is not sports. The brawling...it happens. But the enormous public outcry that ensues every time it does happen disgusts me. Maybe I'm alone on this one but everyone loves to ague so here we go. Teams are supposed to have rivals. Players are supposed to have vendettas. Men are supposed to be men but if they let their emotions out then they're strictly punished and are turned into robots for a while. Let them have their rivals and their vendettas. Let sports be competitive again. |
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Young Guru Snifit    Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| Ok, you want to talk about letting athletes just be men and not little babies, look at the NFL and the way quarterbacks are treated. If I were a qb I'd be pissed at the way the game's been changed to make my possition seem like the weak spot. Anyways, moving on to the things you've brought up.
Ron Artest - Have you ever actually been next to an NBA athlete, those guys are enormous. Yeah, they guy throwing the beer at him was a complete dick, but if you're getting paid millions you need to be able to control yourself. Also, one solid punch from an NBA player could very well kill a man. And the punishment was due to his past offenses and the Commish not wanting to lose fans. Think of this, if you're a father and you want to take your kids to see a game and you're worried about one of the players coming into the stands and potentially hurting you're child you might not go, and that costs everyone in the NBA so Stern had to make some examples of players. Carmello Anthony - Carmello deserves that fine because he's a little bitch. That hit was a completely uncalled for and unprovoked attack on another player. And what does he do afterwards, he runs away. He's not getting fined for begining a complete gutless ass, but he should be. And that whole fight was a joke, that foul was nothing more than an intentional foul, nothing to spark a fight, and it just shows how much those players can't deal with real basketball. If the Knicks player wanted to make a statement he would've let the other player get off the ground and really teach him a lesson for showing them up on their home court. Miami FIU - That was a disaster, the two teams got a little heated up in a the game, but they aren't rival teams. Hell they shouldn't even be playing eachother. FIU is in no way shape or form on the level with miami. And donna shalealla is a joke of a president at Miami. She thinks here punishements were severe, suspending players against Duke, another joke of a team, where FIU suspended it's players for a season. Donna was the laughing stock of the entire sports world for the way she presented herself in regards to that event. And the players on the teams were in general just in a fight, but there were a handful of cowardly boys (yes, boys, not men) who were going around trying to stomp on people's knees and heads. That's not fighting, that's just cowardly and disgracefull and those players should get their scholarships revoked. I can forgive plain fighting, but trying to injure/kill someone is not acceptable and shouldn't be in sports, period. |
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