Monday Moaning

Well.......

What is understood doesn't need to be discussed...Monday is here again...Summer is coming to a close...Football season is around the corner...I have been studying up on my college football, as I'll be doing a weekly post on featured games each week, and who you should be calling you bookie to bet on...I already did my HEISMAN studying...

-But before I start eyeing college football, let's talk a bit of Baseball...In the American league there has been much talk about the surprise Houston Astros and the Angels surging to catch them...There has been plenty of talk about the Yankees...There always is whether they are winning or not...And since the trade deadline, the Baseball world has had a boner for the Toronto Blue Jays...All this has distracted people from a team that has been solid all year, and is getting really hot right now...

The Baltimore Orioles...The Orioles are a half game ahead of the Angels in the Wild Card hunt, and only 4 games out of first in the division...They have decent starting pitching...A strong bullpen...and a solid lineup...Adam Jones and Chris Davis are crushing it...Manny Machado is steady with the glove and the bat...And OF Gerardo Parra may go down as the most overlooked deadline move, as he has taken advantage of getting steady playing time for the O's, batting .357 over his last 30 games...

Yes, Toronto made the sexy, win it now moves...The Orioles were pretty quite and added a couple minor pieces, and just stuck to what they have been doing...And it could end up paying off for them...The biggest question mark for Baltimore is their rotation...Their guys go out there, eat their innings, and try to keep them in games...But they don't have an ace...No one who dominates...That will most likely be their downfall if the get in the playoffs...But watching them fight for their playoff spot is fun...This is a gritty team...

(side note) : Can MLB please test Chris Davis for steroids...I watched him hit a HR Saturday, that was outrageous...The pitch was a slider, low and AWAY...Davis reached with a swing...No lower body in the swing at all...No legs, no nothing!  All wrists and arms, and it was a fucking laser to to right-center...Unreal!

-In I Don't Give a Shit News....Michael Sam has left football to focus on his mental health...Holy fucking shit balls, who knew he was still playing football? Oh wait, he wasn't...He was up in the Canadian Football League, collecting a check from the Montreal Alouettes...Sam had missed their first five games...Made his season debut a week ago, and had no tackles...Sam broke this not shocking at all news via Twitter...

"The last 12 months have been very difficult for me, to the point where I became concerned with my mental health. Because of this I am going to step away from the game at this time. I thank the Alouettes for this opportunity and hope to be back on the field soon,"

Just to be fair...I have no problem that Sam is openly gay and was trying to have a pro-football career...But the biggest reason the last 12 months have been so hard on Michael Sam, is Michael Sam...He kept pushing the narrative about being a gay football player...He kept himself and his story in the spotlight, signing a TV deal for Lifetime or where ever the fuck it was...He put it front and center, and then didn't understand the scrutiny...Let alone many teams didn't want the distraction he was creating...Oh, and besides that, he just wasn't that good.

But as some one who is clearly MENTALLY ILL and trying to get my head right,  I wish him good luck with getting his shit together.


-This week Kate Upton/Sports Illustrated released a video of Kate doing what she does best...Lounging around in a bikini and having her picture taken...Kate and that voice of hers goes on about how she loves tiny bikinis...Well, Kate, we love those tiny bikinis that barely hold your tits in too!







That's all I have for now...Really, do you need anymore?  No, you're going to watch Kate's video again!

Have a week.

Shootings, Race, and Mental Illness

Well, the title listed some serious hot button issues there, so I figure we may as well just push that envelope as far as we can with a nice picture...

So, our country has had another fucked up mass shooting...A little racist douchebag in South Carolina shot 9 people after a Wednesday night Bible study group...Since then there have been a number of issues batted around...The media touches on them...People touch on them, but no one really talks...They tiptoe around it all because everyone is afraid of offending some one else...Well, not me kids...

Topic 1.  The Confederate Flag...Lots of people suddenly think it should be done away with...They want South Carolina to stop flying it...Okay, I'm not from the South, so I don't get the big connection people in the South have to it...And I'll never be from the South...I'll never live there...I hate the fucking heat...And while I do one helluva impression of a Bible-belt, hillbilly, redneck, accent, I don't fucking want to hear it everyday of my life...But let me say this about your silly fucking flag you hold near and dear...the Civil War ended...YOU FUCKING LOST!  The North won...The slaves were freed...Oh, and far too long after, segregation ended...And no matter how much those things you never lived through really piss you off, it's the way it is...Been that way your whole life, so grow the fuck up...Your great, great grand-daddy lost!  Burn every fucking Confederate flag left!

Topic 2.   President Obama said nigger...The President was on Comedian, actor, broadcaster/podcaster Marc Maron's "WTF Podcast"...Maron is known for leaning left, but I was surprised the President decided to go on it...Supposedly his people reached out to Maron for the interview...And for the first time in awhile he said some real, honest shit...But everyone missed it, or well, the media didn't talk about it anything except him saying nigger...They acted like he was walking around the room just saying 'nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger'....No...He was talking about race and how it's still clearly a big problem in out country...So here is the full context of what he was saying....

“It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours, and that opportunities have opened up, and that attitudes have changed, That is a fact.”

“What is also true is the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it.”

“And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘nigger’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination.”

Okay...get over it...The man did what we always say we want politicians to do...He spoke honestly..

Topic 3.   There has been a complaint that when one of these white asshole, psychos shoots up a school, movie theater, of church, that they are given a pass with the 'They're mentally ill' excuse...(I refuse to use the names of asshole shooters like this dick-bag in South Carolina...I won't give them the cocksucker attention they want)...But the fucker in Connecticut, Colorado, and this fuck down South...Do any of them look like they have an ounce of sanity?  No! They all have a mile long stare...Fucked up hairstyles because they're pleading 'look at me!'  But we don't...We look away, because we can tell they're bat-shit crazy...Which is a huge problem on our part...Everyone is so sensitive these days in America, we aren't allowed to call for the authorities just because some fuck-tard looks like a lunatic...We have to wait until he does some crazy shit...But then it's too late...

But whatever...Back to the shooting part of it all...While the shit-bag in South Carolina is a racist, I refuse to just leave it at that...He is also nuts...Mentally ill just like the other fuckers from Colorado and Connecticut...But I'm not stopping there...In this country there are shootings everyday...EVERY FUCKING DAY...And you know what...All those shooters are mentally ill on some level as well...I don't care if it was a black gang members shooting Hispanic gang members...The three young black teens in Philly who got "bored" shot, robbed and killed a white man walking his dog Last Month...They are all mentally ill...If you are not defending your life, or someone else's life, you are mentally fucked if you can just kill anyone that easily...There is no difference...A killer is a killer, and a killer is fucked up in the head...

And I have no use for trying to rehabilitate any of them...No treatment...No jail...They bring nothing to the table...They all need to be erased...

Topic 4.   Gun Control Laws...Lets be honest...There are no gun laws, background check bullshit, any of that shit, that would have stopped the shithead in South Carolina...The only way to stop shootings is to get rid of every gun in this country...And that ain't happening...We can't get the losers of the Civil War to get rid of their flag, how would we get everyone in the country to get rid of their guns...And with how little we trust our shithead government, we may need to hold onto them...But seriously, how did anyone look at Connecticut kid, Colorado kid, and South Carolina racist kid, and think anyone of those fucking dolts could responsibly handle gun ownership!?! 

I'm not a gun guy and my screaming liberal wife doesn't want one around...But I'll be honest, with how fucked up and violent our country has been acting, I've thought of getting one to protect my family...

Topic 5.   Honest Discussion about Race....I have heard so many talking heads in the media, as well as politicians say that this is what we need as a country...But none of them are willing to actually sit down with real people and do it...They'll get a panel together with a few different professors and lawyers with different ethnic backgrounds, and they'll kick the can around, and then it's all forgotten...Because nothing real is said...And Don Lemon with a couple professors and lawyers doesn't represent you, or me, or anyone except for TV douchebags, lawyers and professors...

I saw Lemon down in South Carolina talking to some little douchebag about the racial issues...In the background was a black woman...A regular black woman who just lost friends, who were shot in her church...She was shouting at them...Wanting her feeling heard...She said things about the President...She called Lemon and "Uncle Tom"...She voicing her frustration...You know what they said..."Lets go to commercial so we can have a real discussion."  Fuck You Don! Fuck you CNN! You had chance to put her on the TV and try to have a back and forth with her...Let a real voice be heard...Maybe bring in some other folks from the neighborhood...It could have been amazing TV...But you fuckers were scared...And you think a "real discussion" just means you suits...

America, we have problems...We need to figure them out...And we need to do it without our shitty media screwing it up, and our politicians scamming it for political gain...Real, free, and honest discussion is welcome here...Call me an asshole if you need to...Just try to back it up with some reasoning.