Monday Moaning 8-10-2020

 

Kate and I are back with another edition of Monday Moaning...I'm going to try to avoid talking about Lying, Asshole Trump and Idiot Republicans, but if you want to read about those topics, you can find them on the sidebar...I'm going to try to stick in the sports lane  for MM this week...

-Over a month the Cleveland Indians announced they were looking into changing the team name...That got lots of people excited about the possible name change and lots pissed off...A couple weeks later we heard ownership say they were going to do this and that but we've still heard nothing as they seem to continue to  DRAG THEIR FEET...

One Cleveland business that has been very vocal about the Indians keeping their name and the Chief Wahoo logo for a number of years now, is CV Art + Apparel...Talented artist and cool local business...We have some of their stuff...Yesterday they released a new Indians themed shirt...

Lots of cool details of Jacobs (Progressive) Field and baseball imagery, Cleveland landmarks, and Native American imagery, forming a skull...I will admit that it looks cool...But it doesn't really help their argument that the name isn't offensive...A fan  who has been supporting the name be changed to the Siders...actually changed his twitter name to #ClevelandSpiders tweeted a couple images back at GV saying "same energy...& not in a good way 💀"  #ChangeTheName

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This one highlighting the "Indian"...Native American imagery 

And this one just creep as fuck with nude women forming a skull...

GV Art + Apparel quickly blocked #ClevelandSpiders....I'm sure the same will happen to me after I tweet this blog out...I'm sorry Cleveland, it's time all of us Indians fans move on...Although as I said in my previous blog on this topic, I truly believe that Indians ownership are dragging their feet and will try to wait this out until the majority of people forget about it, and won't end up rebranding the team...

-Now college football...There has been a big push to get a half assed college football season in...This week the MAC (Mid-American Conference) cancelled their Fall sports season but are holding out hope to have some kind of Spring football season...Healthy and Safety were the biggest reasons, followed closely by the fact that the Power 5 Conferences are only playing shortened season just within their individual conferences...The MAC and other smaller conferences get paid well to take non-conference games with power 5 schools...They get paid to take an ass beating...Losing that revenue stream hurts them, including hurting them in being able to assure their student athletes health...

Last week players in the PAC-12 UNITED, asking for a number of conditions to get them to play...First in foremost were demands about their health and safety...The players want more testing than what is planned...They are asking for NCAA mandated testing and tracing rules similar to what the NFL is planning...The NCAA is leaving that up to each conference and many conferences are leaving it up to individual schools and only putting out recommended guidelines...Schools are making most students stay home and attend online, but they want the money making athletes to show up...The athletes not seeing any of the fortune the NCAA, Conferences, Universities and multiple media outlets like ESPN and Fox Sports see...

Players had a conference call with PAC-12 Commissioner, Larry Scott who told them their what they were doing was a "misguided PR stunt"...Players said after the meeting with Scott, “It was not very productive. We did not come away with many answers. He made it very clear that he does not want to meet again.” 

A few other Conferences followed the PAC-12 players in saying they may opt out unless the there were certain guarantees made for the health and safety...One was the BIG-10 but right away Ohio State players pulled back and wanted nothing to do with it...A number of Penn State players were tweeting out a statement that seemed to be clearly written by some University official, saying how they feel safe and want to play...Which lead to me tweeting this back to each of them....

Yeah, my hatred for Penn State, Child Rapists and those who cover it up will never die!

I think trying to play a college football season is crazy...Cases of COVID are still rising, you have huge rosters plus coaching and training staffs...There are going to be some serious outbreaks, especially since their is no NCAA mandated testing, and tracing policy...

I get that players want to play...I also get that some of them probably were threatened by coaches or School Officials, because we all know College Football is all about MONEY...They don't care about the "student athletes" as students and they don't care about them as human beings...They only see them as a very profitable investment...

That's it for now...I'm sure I need to write a post about Trump's latest lies and misinformation...

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Penn State Finally Does Something Right

It has taken a couple weeks of rumblings and rumors...But finally the pressure got to heavy...Sunday morning, the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium was removed...About 6:00 AM police and workmen arrived, put up a fence, and got to work...The Statue came down around 8:20 AM...And as I write this, they are working on removing Paterno's name and his words on the limestone wall that was behind the statue...

Many people, like myself are happy about this...But I have already seen these asshole Penn State students, alums, and fans, who are upset about the Paterno statue coming down...It's insane how these people just blindly keep supporting this criminal fuck!

It has also broken, that the NCAA will be making an announcement Monday at 9:00AM...It is being reported that this will be "unprecedented penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school."

Good!

Bring Me the Head of Joe Paterno...

Okay, that's gross, bring me his statue's head!

If you have followed my blogs that have been about Jerry Sandusky being a child rapist, and the cover-up at Penn State, then you know when this first broke, I was writing that Paterno knew, and willingly covered it up...And now we have found out that he lead the cover-up...He told his boys Spanier, Schultz, and Curley, to keep a lid on this mess...And they did...

But we have to ask why, if they knew this creep was messing with kids, and we removed him from the coaching staff, then why did he still have an office? Why did he still have full use of all athletic department facilities? They said it was to help with his Second Mile Charity...You mean the same charity where he was poaching these 10, 11, 12, and 13 year old boys from...I can't find any logic at all with these people...

In the Freeh Report, that was released yesterday it spoke of Paterno, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz, saying "These men concealed Sandusky's activities from the Board of Trustees, the University community and authorities. They exhibited a striking lack of empathy for Sandusky's victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and well‐being, especially by not attempting to determine the identity of the child who Sandusky assaulted in the Lasch Building in 2001." That being the victim Mike McQueary had seen Sansdusky with, and reported it to Paterno...And McQueary, you're not off the hook either...You stood by and let them cover it up...You kept your mouth shut, even though you saw what a monster Sandusky was, Fucking cunt!

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said during his press conference Thursday, "There were more red flags here than you could count over a long period of time." Freeh's report went all the way back through Sandusky's career at PSU...All the way back to 1975...

Freeh's investigation showed points where, Penn State officials could have stopped Sandusky but didn't and failed to report him to authorities...

"On May 3, 1998, Sandusky sexually assaulted a young boy in the Lasch Building on Penn State's campus. His mother noted the boy was acting differently when he came home and called a psychologist about it, as well as the University Police Department.

When the boy's mother confronted Sandusky on May 19, asking if Sandusky had touched the boy's "private parts," he said, "I don't think so ... maybe." Unknown to Sandusky, UPD Detective Ron Schreffler and a State College police officer were listening from another room.

Sandusky asked if he could speak with the boy, but the mother said no. "I understand. I was wrong," Sandusky replied. "I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won't get it from you. I wish I were dead."

When word of the May 3 assault reached Schultz two days later, he noted, "Is this opening of Pandora's Box?" and wondered if there were other children involved. Emails between Schultz and Curley imply that they had "touched base" with Joe Paterno about the incident as well. Yet after the UPD began an investigation, campus police chief Thomas Harmon said they would "hold off on making any crime log entry." All four officials -- Spanier, Paterno, Curley and Schultz -- were fully aware about the allegation and investigation in 1998, but failed to report it to the Board of Trustees, according to the report.

In June 1998, Harmon emailed Schultz to say officers "met discretely" with Sandusky and "his account of the matter was essentially the same as the child's." Sandusky said "he had done this with other children in the past." Schultz informed Spanier and Curley that the investigation of the matter was closed as such."

What's striking about 1998 is nobody even spoke to Sandusky ... including the coach [Paterno] who was steps away from Sandusky's office." Freeh said...Then there's the fact that that Schultz had testified that, "I was never aware that 'Penn State police investigated inappropriate touching in a shower, in 1998." Yeah, he screwed himself!

Then there's the emails back and forth between Paterno, Spanier, Schultz, and Curley, after the 2001 incident McQueary brought to their attention...Emails that made it clear that Paterno wanted it to be kept quiet...And even though they all knew it could hurt them, they all agreed to go along with it...

Then Thursday afternoon THIS came out...Yes, Penn State University switched the feed just as the Freeh Report was being released...Did these dummies not learn from the mistakes of Paterno and Spanier, Schultz, and Curley? For God's sake you idiots, it's 2012...Switching the channel won't stop people from getting the information! After this, along with the years of the cover-up, The State of Pennsylvania needs to cut off all funding to the University...Seriously, screw these people and their history of secrecy, and protection of a child rapist...

Over the months I've been calling for the NCAA to bring down the "Death Penalty" on Penn State...Many people think that's too far, saying this has nothing to do with Football and NCAA sports...BULLSHIT!

You had one of the most highly regarded coaches in the history of College Football, leading the cover-up of one of his assistant coaches being a child molester and rapist...Paterno and his 3 musketeers felt is was more important to protect his image, and the image of Penn State Football, then to protect innocent kids from getting raped in the team showers, team hotels, and Sandusky's basement bedroom...The myth of Paterno, and Penn State was all they cared about...This has everything to do with College Football and sports...

These fools didn't even realize that the world would have stood by them, and respected them had they Cut ties with Sandusky and turned him in at the first sign of trouble...But Paterno was blinded by his own ego, and probably some dumb-ass loyalty to his former assistant coach and friend...And to all those who refuse to believe the facts that Paterno was involved, and keep defending him, first, wake up! Second...Tell me, when this story first broke, WHY did Paterno transfer EVERYTHING into his wife's name? He knew he was dirty...He knew it would be found out...He knew there would be civil suits...He knew he was guilty...That bastard got off easy by dying...And I'll tell you this...It won't surprise me if even worse, and darker things come out about Paterno, Spanier, Schultz, and Curley...

At the top I said I want the head of that stupid fucking statue...I was thinking, I'd cash in my kids college funds, to pay whoever chopped it off, and brought it to me...But instead, let's keep it there...Let it be a reminder that our icons aren't always who we think they are...Put up a plague next to it...

'Joe Paterno, legendary football coach, and protector of child rapists, and all around fucking asshole with stupid big, glasses!'

Later, The Beeze.

Penn State: This Isn't the Aftermath, It's the Beginning

Since Sunday night, I have been beating on the story at Penn State...As much as I rant and rave, there is nothing that will set me off like stories of children being abused...So when the story of former Penn State assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky being a child rapist broke, I flipped...

Then it became clear that the University, Joe Paterno, the President, the Athletic Director, and assistant Mike McQueary didn't do nearly enough to stop and prevent this from happening...Then it started looking like a cover-up...Let alone, it seems like they were all enablers for Sandusky...

Then I read about Ray_Gricar...This guy was a DA investigating 1998 allegations against Sandusky...He didn't have enough at the time, but suddenly in 2005 he ends up missing...His laptop found in a lake with the hard-drive ripped out...Why? Was he on to something? Yes this sounds like conspiracy theory shit, but let's be honest...It's Penn State football we're talking about...Clearly they are willing to cover things up...But why are they willing to cover up such an awful thing?

Then I read what Radio host Mark Madden WROTE 6 months ago...Which lead into what he said today...Then Madden let a rumor fly on a couple of radio shows Thursday...He said things are going to get worse before they get better...I would agree with that...Sandusky was out there free, doing as he wished to kids, for way too long...But Madden's rumor was even more shocking...

"I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation -- and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can -- that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak."

Madden also thinks that, "The other thing I think that may eventually become uncovered, and I talked about this in my original article back in April, is that I think they'll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up."

Considering the whole Sandusky/child molestation story started as rumor, Madden doesn't sound too far off...

But even if he is wrong...And even if the missing DA thing is an odd coincidence, there was still a major cover up at Penn State...People in charge knew Sandusky was a creep...They had an eyewitness account of him raping a 10 year old boy in the showers...All they did was tell him 'no more kids here.' He still had access to the facilities...He still roamed freely...Preying on young boys, and ruining their lives...Whatever these bastards were hiding, besides Sandusky being an evil piece of shit, it will be discovered...This mess is far from over...

And to the students of Penn State...I can respect loyalty to your school...I understand that Joe Paterno is an Icon there...But he screwed up, and screwed up big time...He was looked at as the moral compass of not only Penn State, but College Football...So I understand that it hurts to find out, that he really isn't those things...But semi-rioting isn't the answer...Ignoring the fact that children were abused, because your football coach got fired, is disgusting...And blaming the media for what has happened is retarded...

Blame Sandusky...Blame your leaders who let it happen...Who concealed it...And who have now disgraced your Alma Mater...

As for Penn State's Football Program...Hell all athletics...The whole department should be shut down...Rip it down, and start over...The only way to get any credibility back is to clean house...Remove ties from the past and start all over...

If the NCAA had any guts, they'd shut it down...But I doubt they will...

Later, The Beeze.