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Whenever something happens with Barry Bonds, my traffic jumps. Past boons:

  • Bonds's mistress in Playboy
  • The fate of the 756 ball
  • That crank who claimed Bonds's elbow guard had adamantium springs and artificial consciousness.
  • Any Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada article.
Kablooey. People come out from their team-specific holes to see what the Giants guys are writing. Is there blind support? Objective analysis? It's a natural instinct to see how the other half lives. There but for the grace of geography go I, and all that.

My problem is that I don't care. Not just about Bonds, but I don't care about any of it. I don't care about Michael Vick. I don't care about Kobe Bryant. I don't care that Joe Namath hit on a journalist, and I don't care that Wade Boggs was diddling someone named "Margo."

I live my life in constant fear. People drive like morons. Yellowstone Park is a big volcano that's going to cover the continental United States with a foot of ash. Maybe my wrists are sore because I have carpel tunnel syndrome, or maybe I have dropsy of the wrists. Scary stuff, this world of ours.

I watch sports to forget all of that. I watch sports to get two or three hour bursts of escape. I don't watch sports for the escape and the off-field soap operatics, as a lot of folks do. The action between the lines - and the suspension of reality that makes that action so, so important in my little world - is all that I care about. How I enjoy sports isn't the Way of Purity. This isn't a holier-than-thou post. It's just an explanation as to why I seldom write about performance-enhancing drugs or DUI arrests or whatever the topic du jour is. To those who were expecting a real post about Bonds's indictment instead of yesterday's slapdash snarkfest: I'm sorry. It's just not me.

Some folks really get a kick out of wasted athletes mugging for the camera with hot non-wives. It's become a little LOLcat-like subculture of the internet sports world. That's great, but I don't care. I miss watching Bonds play baseball. I miss watching Michael Vick play football. That's all. It ticks me off that they each made terrible decisions (of drastically different degrees, of course) because now I don't get to watch them. But there are still games to watch, so I'll survive.

I'm annoyed that KNBR is now your 24-hour source for indictment coverage, but I wouldn't expect anything less. I accept that I'm in the minority. Just know that when I'm trying to choose a topic for my posts, I'll always find this more interesting than this.

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Re: Manifestosis
I'm with you Grant.  More sports and less drama.

by Cainer on Nov 16, 2007 1:47 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I don't think I've ever resorted to this before, but:  +1.

by Evan on Nov 16, 2007 1:49 PM PST   0 recs

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Hah! "Bonds straight up indicted and stuff"... funny as hell ...

I have to admit, I'm one of those guys who enjoys the other baseball team in the Bay Area and I definitely check here for all my Bonds controversy/giant fan indignation/"why are they picking on Barry??" stuff ...

It's all about Schaudenfrade right now ... Barry is your guy, not ours and the endless media coverage of the world's greatest homerun hitter/world's biggest prick puts a huge smile on my face in an otherwise boring offseason ...

by codedfreaq on Nov 16, 2007 1:50 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
that's because you are an asshole who gets off on the suffering of others.  fuck off. k thnx

by positiveuphemism on Nov 16, 2007 2:12 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Yes, clearly. Anybody who is not a Giants fan and therefore not a Barry fan is obviously an asshole. Got me on that one.

by codedfreaq on Nov 16, 2007 2:27 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
No pal, not everybody is an asshole, just you.
I adopted Barry Bonds

by BondsApologist on Nov 16, 2007 2:34 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Yeah , suck it.
I'm so sick of the "He's done , kick him to the curb - then kick him again" mentality.

"Nothing he did was against the rules of the game when he was putting up his single-season home-run record and ruling the game like no one had ever done before."

Barry made baseball entertaining in a way that will forever be unmatched. Am I revealing my moral ethic by not jumping on the lynch mob bandwagon?

Yup.

Rockies juggernaut rolls o...ver , dead. NL West TempestTeapot CASE IN POINT!

by victor frankenstein on Nov 16, 2007 7:29 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
this has nothing to do with Barry, it has everything to do with the fact that you stated you enjoyed other peoples misfortunes.  it's ok, you are an asshole and i'm a dick who is pointing it out.  at least i don't get off on the fact that you are an ashsole, it just makes me sad,  but you probably enjoy that and so are doubly an asshole.  enjoy your troll food, asshole.

by positiveuphemism on Nov 16, 2007 2:46 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Wow .. I think your difference of opinion with me on the Barry matter has truly opened my eyes. I am an asshole!

Seriously though, what's the point of having a forum if everybody's supposed to drink from the same Kool Aide? People disagree all the time. It just happens. Pull your head out of your ass and open your eyes - your boy roided up, lied, got caught, and hopefully will be in a pretty orange jump suit in the near future.

by codedfreaq on Nov 16, 2007 2:58 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

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so you defend yourself from personal attack by attacking someone else.  i am not protecting barry, you may notice.  i am ridiculing you for being a troll and an asshole.  you can say whatever you want about barry, i don't care about that, but don't say you enjoy other people suffering.  that just makes you a psychopath (along with being an asshole) of course.

if you'd like, you can start over and deny that you enjoy other people suffering and attempt to twist the truth.  have fun, troll.

by positiveuphemism on Nov 16, 2007 3:09 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I'm more of a gnome ... trolls are so 1980's with the poofy colorful hair and grimacing weird plastic faces ...

by codedfreaq on Nov 16, 2007 3:19 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

The Troll of the 21st Century
Trolls have been updating. Haven't you seen?

Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 3:26 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
We know you are a little man, but your ugly soul is what makes you a troll.

The point of having a forum is for people to share their ideas, and not to leave self-serving piles of shit all over the place.  

You won't see us leaving orange and black piles of shit on your website, and we would appreciate if you didn't do that here.  There are plenty of people that can find a way to be civil and humane and still express their viewpoint.  You, and other trolls like you, did not.  

Brian Wilson for Closer!

by BawLa on Nov 16, 2007 3:39 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
God it's just way too easy to get a rise out of you folks ... I don't remember being asked to pledge an oath to Giant Fandom when I signed up to use the site. If you can't deal with opposing/unpopular ideas and opinions, change the website to a pay site to weed out the haters ..

by codedfreaq on Nov 16, 2007 3:47 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Unpopular ideas are fine. I haven't really seen any ideas in your postings, though; as far as I can tell you just came here to gloat.

Somehow, I don't think I'd get a warm welcome if I showed up on Athletics Nation to gleefully wish prison time on some long-time A's star like...umm. Hrm. Well, in the absence of a star, say Eric Chavez.

SJ Giants, 2007 Cal League champs! Couldn't have done it without the All-Father.

by EliminateMe on Nov 16, 2007 4:03 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
No need for ideas: in his own words he came here strictly to get a rise out of us. So whatever. He'll be gone tomorrow, anyway.
Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 4:24 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

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The A's have a squeaky clean history that could never be tarnished.  The likes of Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, and even Miguel Tejada...  Historical Athletics who never tried to cheat the system.  Ever.
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler

by JRPhillips on Nov 16, 2007 4:39 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Did you seriously think that coming onto a blog for Giants fans and telling them you're going to enjoy watching them suffer this offseason would get a good response?

...Seriously?

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.

by jponry on Nov 16, 2007 4:24 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

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Yellowstone Park is a big volcano that's going to cover the continental United States with a foot of ash.

Is that what happened in The Road by Cormac McCarthy?

If you root for the Dodgers, the terrorists have already won.

by SF Pete on Nov 16, 2007 1:50 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I watched some documentary on the History Channel or something about Yellowstone, and like half of it was about how everyone in the world will die when the volcano finally goes off and maybe it'll go off soon.

Fear-based documentaries are kinda fun.

Steve Kline: How okay is he, really? I would say he is pretty okay.

by groug on Nov 16, 2007 1:56 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
It's a damn good thing they thought to put it in the middle of Wyoming, where nobody actually lives. It is in Wyoming, right? Or one of those other rectangular states that they made after the mapmakers got tired of having to write little squiggly borders?
SJ Giants, 2007 Cal League champs! Couldn't have done it without the All-Father.

by EliminateMe on Nov 16, 2007 2:02 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
It's in Wyoming, yeah, but it's not in the middle.  I think it's in the west.
Steve Kline: How okay is he, really? I would say he is pretty okay.

by groug on Nov 16, 2007 2:08 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Which means it could hurt Idaho.  Just so you know why I made that stupid petty distinction and it wasn't at all that I meant to make a joke and forgot.
Steve Kline: How okay is he, really? I would say he is pretty okay.

by groug on Nov 16, 2007 2:08 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Jet Stream
The prevaliing winds flow west-east, so Idaho will be OK.  South Dakota, Ohio, New York, not so OK.

by DrBGiantsfan on Nov 16, 2007 2:53 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Jet Stream
Oklahoma is OK, too.

Except for the accumulated foot of trailer trash.

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2007 3:04 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Jet Stream
The worst part is that I actually know from that documentary I saw it would hurt Montana.

But that has nothing to do with western Wyoming.  So I couldn't mention it.

Steve Kline: How okay is he, really? I would say he is pretty okay.

by groug on Nov 16, 2007 10:04 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
actually, some people do live in wyoming.  some people who pay attention, and know when wyoming's being trashed for, really, no reason at all.

i am indeed a passerby, and not a bonds fan; however i don't take any real pleasure in this whole business.  really, it's just depressing.

by dpmay on Nov 16, 2007 10:31 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I think Wyoming is a fine state. If I was going to trash a state for no reason at all, it would have to be Florida.
Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 10:36 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I would like to apologize to all five citizens of the fine state of Wyoming.  I pledge that in the future, when I feel like trashing an entire state, I'll try to find a better excuse for doing so first.
SJ Giants, 2007 Cal League champs! Couldn't have done it without the All-Father.

by EliminateMe on Nov 17, 2007 8:36 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Oh yeah my geology teacher mentioned that the first week of our class. Shortly thereafter he discussed the doomsday scenarios of when the Big One hits the Bay Area and how much of the Bay Area all the way out to Stockton-ish and north near Sacramento could be one big marsh due to the collapsing of levees around the area.
Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Nov 16, 2007 2:11 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
An excellent read , although a bit dated - The Last Days Of The Late Great State Of California.

Seriocomic history of yer backyard up to the Reagan(?) Administration...then posits The Big One and chronicles the worldwide aftershocks.

Please note clever use of the word "chronicles" designed to curry favor...

Rockies juggernaut rolls o...ver , dead. NL West TempestTeapot CASE IN POINT!

by victor frankenstein on Nov 16, 2007 7:37 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Us in Sacramento...we'll be fine.  We'll just grab onto the floating livestock.  They do float right?!?  RIGHT?!?

For doomsday scenarios...I strongly suggest http://www.endofworld.net/

Screw the Giants, but not Omar. I'm getting drunk and watching some footy.

by PacBellBoozer on Nov 17, 2007 9:24 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I saw that documentary too and it also made me think of McCarthy's "The Road". The documentary was typical of the Discovery channel, but "the Road" - That's the best piece of prose I've read in years.
"But I AM a stepchild!"-Pedro Feliz

by Smotheredinhugs on Nov 18, 2007 7:24 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I thought The Road was about the 2007 Giants.
Tim Lincecum is the light and truth, and I will enjoy becoming pure energy when he determines it is time to ascend.

by HughG16 on Nov 16, 2007 3:09 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I watch sports because never ever has a sporting event been a matter of life and death. I follow the Giants because despite years and years of frustration and disappointment, I'm still fulfilled watching 162 games of baseball a year. No matter how crappy or stupid or stressful my life might be, sports are always there.

I'd just like to watch the game and talk about batting averages, pass defenses, the full court press, and the icing rule in the NHL...which I still don't understand. Nothing else, please. If that means I'm sticking my head in the sand, so be it. Life sucks enough. Please don't take away one of the few things that keeps me sane.

Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Nov 16, 2007 1:57 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Which is the icing rule? I usually build my understanding of Hockey through my experience playing soccer, so I don't know all the names of anything except the offside penalty, but even the stuff that doesn't have a 1:1 correlation between the two sports usually makes sense when I think of "if soccer had walls" and go ahead and ignore that, yes, soccer does have walls.

By the way, being a goalie in an indoor game, WAY less fun than being a goalie on a full field.

Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 2:03 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
When they whistle a puck dead when it crosses two red lines...I just don't get it. It seems to slow down the games too much. I haven't watched an NHL game since they changed the rules and the broadcasts got switched to Versus. I'm not a Sharks fan so FSNBA doesn't help me.
Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Nov 16, 2007 2:06 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Icing is there to prevent teams from just throwing the puck down the ice while on defense.  It forces a team to attempt to play defense.  If there was no penalty for just dumping the puck scoring would go down because defenders would just huck it as soon as they got it once they had a lead.

By forcing a team to actually defend the scoring goes up.  This doesn't appear to make any sense if you think about it.  I love hockey.

by positiveuphemism on Nov 16, 2007 2:17 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
It's also not so much the defending, but also the having to carry the puck up the ice, instead of just flinging it up there and hoping someone gets to it.  Doesn't the clock also stop on an icing penalty?  Perhaps it's also to prevent a team that is ahead to run the clock on "dead" action, as no one has control of the puck usually when the pick is iced.

by sfgfan on Nov 16, 2007 2:31 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
clock stops and face off is in the defenders zone.

by positiveuphemism on Nov 16, 2007 2:47 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I still don't get it. My brain stalled because it truly makes no sense.
Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Nov 16, 2007 2:58 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I'm going to talk about it like it's soccer again, but it makes sense to me in this context. When I played JV in high school I was a center defender (full-back, backfielder, whatever you want to call it). If the ball was ever in or around teh goal box we were told basically "kick it as far in the other direction as possible." That's it. No passing. No dribbling. No looking. No caring. Just kicking. It's effective, especially if you're not playing in a particularly skilled group, but it's bad soccer.

In hockey it remains effective even at the high levels because the rink is smaller, there are fewer players at one time, and the puck is much, much faster. In skilled soccer if you clear a ball blindly it's probably going to go to the other team, and you're in line for a lot more running on defense on account of the turnover. In skilled hockey, the puck still sneaks through all the way to the back, everybody has time to reset and catch their breath in time for everything to happen again.

So in my eyes, clearing the puck like that essentially eliminates skilled play. It takes the difference between a brutish defender who can only tell the difference between north and south, and a skilled defender who can see the rink, pass, dribble (what's the hockey term?), and protect a turnover skillfully and brings it closer to nil. Or, to put it back in my soccer terms from earlier, it eliminates the usefullness of the skill difference between JV and Varsity.

So even though it is strategically sound defense (if the penalty doesn't exist), it's basically a cheap trick that makes it less necessary to possess advanced skill sets. In those terms, I think you see better hockey when icing isn't allowed, because it forces good players to use their skills and weeds out bad players who only know how to ice.

There's also all that stuff about higher scores and unfair clock control. But as far as I care, it's about maximizing the difference in on ice success between skilled players and unskilled players.

I think that was pretty convoluted. I hope it makes sense. Sorry.

Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 3:18 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
It's sound defense in penalty kill situations!

by sfgfan on Nov 16, 2007 3:57 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Yes, and it also forces the team to leave all of their players on the ice, which is key.  The avereage "shift" goes from 1-2 minutes.  If a "line" of forwards gets stuck out there too long, and they get tired, icing also helps to prevent them from getting off the ice.  

Those guys go hard for a minute, and then change up to get some rest.  There are usually 4 offensive lines of 3 forwards, and 4 defensive lines of 3 defensemen on each team.  So managing them and thier stamina throughout a game is very important in a sport where 1 goal means so much (although with the recent change of rules, scoring is more frequent).

Brian Wilson for Closer!

by BawLa on Nov 16, 2007 3:45 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Could be a computer virus
When a man's got a problem with his wrists, it's not long until he gets dropsy of the floppy.

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2007 1:58 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Could be a computer virus
And a bad case of cottontail.
SJ Giants, 2007 Cal League champs! Couldn't have done it without the All-Father.

by EliminateMe on Nov 16, 2007 2:03 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Well said, Grant.

by sfgfan on Nov 16, 2007 1:58 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I bet that you people don't even know that the '86 Giants are 6-3 and leading the National League West.

by biff pocoroba on Nov 16, 2007 2:03 PM PST   0 recs

You can hide, but you can't escape Barry
Your Giants are leading the 1986 West and the Pittsburg Pirates are eyeing a kid name Bonds.

Manager Leyland thinks the prospect is too skinny, and hands him a protein shake.

The innocent, first step toward a federal indictment...

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2007 2:17 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
What? That's not undefeated?

Grant, you lost! 3 times you lost! You know what I call people who lose? Loser. Grant's a loser!

He's also technically a winner, I suppose... but let's not get hung up on technicalities.

Dave Righetti: You Know You Want It. / Also, my blog. For writers.

by howtheyscored on Nov 16, 2007 2:39 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I'M IN UR STADIUM. DIDDLIN' UR MARGOES.
Tim Lincecum is the light and truth, and I will enjoy becoming pure energy when he determines it is time to ascend.

by HughG16 on Nov 16, 2007 2:30 PM PST   0 recs

What I care more about...
Why is Jesse Foppert listed as a Giants Righthander? well free agent now, but still confused.

by projectmayhem713 on Nov 16, 2007 2:31 PM PST   0 recs

Re: What I care more about...
He was one of the few reclamation projects the Giants took on this season.

by sfgfan on Nov 16, 2007 2:35 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: What I care more about...
why did i have NO clue about that? where did he pitch? where can i find his numbers? are they going to bring him back? he was one of my favorites.

by projectmayhem713 on Nov 16, 2007 2:38 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: What I care more about...
3 games, 1 inning, 4 walks, 5 runs, but....

a strikeout! k/9 = 9.00 thats pretty good! im sold!

by projectmayhem713 on Nov 16, 2007 2:41 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: What I care more about...
Makes you wonder why he isn't a candidate for the closers role, doesn't it?
Adopted Giant Brian Wilson: Welcome Back!

by sfgreg on Nov 16, 2007 2:43 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: What I care more about...
You have just shown more excitement for a forgotten rehab project than the rest of us demonstrated for the whole team during the entire 2007 season.

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2007 2:47 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I'm one of those guys who finds off the field stuff interesting, but Barry Bonds and steroids?? That's really enough already.
BRING ME ANDRUW JONES!!!

by rxmeister on Nov 16, 2007 2:46 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I've been a Giants fan since 1966, long before Barry Bonds arrived on the scene.  I will be a Giants fan, God willing, long after he is gone.  I enjoyed watching him play for my team, but it was never about being a Barry Bonds fan, but rather a Giants fan.

by DrBGiantsfan on Nov 16, 2007 2:51 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
The emotions moved within me are sadness and indignation.  I am sad because the career of the greatest player of our time has just been officially tainted.  The indictment makes it official in the eyes of a lot of people.

I am indignant because a lot of people are wetting themselves because they now have an excuse, an actual official excuse, to pretend that Barry Bonds was never great and Hank Aaron is still the homerun kind because they grew up with the number 755.  

Never mind the irony that a lot of people didn't want Hank Aaron to break the record because they grew up with the number 714.  

Anyways, that's why I care.  Otherwise, I care not a whit.

Only 972 games until the end of Zito's contract.

by thehavenot on Nov 16, 2007 3:07 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I care. I know I shouldn't care. I know it's a complete waste of time and something I have no control over. I know Bonds wouldn't care if I were indicted. I think I care because between the witch hunt, the leaks, the asshole journalists making money off illegally obtained testimony, same asshole journalist turning it into a career "objectively" reporting at ESPN, the lack of outrage towards any other player who committed the same crime, and the sport profiting off Bonds and steroids for so long and then pretending to be so shocked it all just seems ridiculous. And ridiculous-ness just kind've bothers me. Also, I don't like that one man doing a drug and lying about it is worse than people getting dui's, committing sex acts with hookers, and leaving babies all over the country.    

by MikeyJ on Nov 16, 2007 5:33 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
i agree completely.  i do admit that i have a bit of  resentment for all of the reason you layed out.  it kind of makes me feel like it's us against the world in a silly way.  but ultimately it is a little silly for us to care at all

by moonman on Nov 17, 2007 3:55 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
All true.  I like that Barry looks like he's going to fight it all the way, rather than taking a plea.

by achiappanza on Nov 17, 2007 1:55 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Grant,
I have a theme song for you. The lyrics are slightly dated but track down the tune (the whole "Doing Our Job" album with Tom Chapin, for that matter, and you won't regret it)

I Don't Care
Words & Music by John McCutcheon

Where did it come from, this love of the lurid?
When did reality just get too tame
From the Washington Post to the Weekly World News
It seems nobody has any shame
But when gossip abounds I have recently found
A remedy when I despair
To this junk that I see I respond with ennui
And say I really don't care

I don't care
I don't care

Who shot JR? Is Patty Hearst lying?
I don't care
Liz Taylor is marrying, Elvis is dying
I don't care

I don't care
I don't care
Let the rich and the glamorous ruin their lives
Going through fortunes and treatments and wives
And poor Donald Trump, he just barely survives
But I don't care

Rosanne & Tom, they'll not be a pair again
Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
Does Michael Jordan gamble on golf?
Why does Hillary Clinton tick Rush Limbaugh off?

I don't care
I don't care
Though the National Enquirer says that it's so
For their lies and distortions they're paying good dough
But there are some things enquiring minds don't need to know
I don't care

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie
They tell me that Oprah can wear a size 3
There's a piece of John Bobbitt right here on display
And there's OJ on twenty four hours a day

I don't care
I don't care
Though your troubles are mounting and you work like a drone
It's more fun to watch than to live on your own
Do you think Princess Di made those calls on her phone?

I don't care
I don't care
I really, really, really, really, really don't care
It's the same old sad story the whole world around
We build up our heroes wherever they're found
Then spend the rest of their lives tearing them down
I don't care

©1995 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)

by NearestNorwich on Nov 16, 2007 7:47 PM PST   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
Sorry NN, the Ramones already have a "I don't care" song:

I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
About this world
I don't care
About that girl
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
About these words
I don't care

(Repeat)

Poetic, in a Yogi Berra sort of way.

by zenbitz on Nov 19, 2007 9:16 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Manifestosis
I'm in agreement. Baseball and sports are a great release from reality, history, politics, the job, the relationships, the annoyances, the frustrations and the plain ol' bullshit. This Bonds/roids/indictment controversy blurs the line.

I've been a Giants fan for more than 20 years. I've been a Bonds fan since 1993. I'll always be a fan of the way he produced on the field. No other player has helped me escape from those realities, etc more than he has. As a player, he's brought more joy to me than any other as he has done more to help the Giants win than any other since I've followed the team. Following these last few seasons has moved beyond the escape that following baseball permits. That the team sucks too hasn't helped.

I'll still follow, however. But, to be sure, it's moved beyond being a sports story and just become a news story. Following Bonds will no longer be an escape. It will be the reality, history, politics, job, relationships, annoyance, frustration and plain ol' bullshit.

I just can't wait until spring training starts, so I can get my release back.

Bonds stands alone.

by nostocksjustbonds on Nov 16, 2007 9:31 PM PST   0 recs

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fuck that...i care that lance armstrong is bangin one of the anorexic twins

not only is he a cradle robbing roid user...but he likes chicks that will puke all over his member

what a fuckin perv

btw...im writing a book about it

by bacci40 on Nov 16, 2007 10:53 PM PST   0 recs

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woot grant! you're a hottie.
Pedro Feliz: Marginally better this year.

by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Nov 16, 2007 10:55 PM PST   0 recs

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I don't respond much - I kinda lurk for the most part and nod my head for the most part to your impressive writing. But for this I have to post.

a) I completely agree. I don't give a fuck except for the fact that Barry isn't hitting game winning homers. Barry might have taken performance-enhancing drugs, but I can't forget what he did as a Giant. Its like having an ex who cheated on you - she's a bitch, but you're still kinda in love.

b) You do the psych thing and ignore the bitch (or Bonds) and focus on your team (or your other life) - fuck what happened in the past - I'm just hpoing the future has better things to hold.

- AP

by Kestrel on Nov 17, 2007 12:47 AM PST   0 recs

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G$ -- Well put, straight up.

Grant for prez '08

Vizquel leads by a higher level of example. --BS (Brian Sabean)

by Woody Wins on Nov 17, 2007 10:52 AM PST   0 recs

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I'd say "+" and then some number, but that just cheapens it with snark, I think.

This is the quite possible the best thing I've read on your blog, Grant.

Outside of that, I'll be happy to talk minor league free agents anytime.  :)

SFDugout.com - Returning Offseason 2007

by BruteSentiment on Nov 17, 2007 12:43 PM PST   0 recs

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well grant i cant agree with what you said anymore than i do, and what i hate the most about it is not the news stations who report it, but the moron fans who want them to report it, those people who shold be watching soap operas instead of sports

by jeffc on Nov 17, 2007 2:38 PM PST   0 recs

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Ever notice how everywhere, (definetely not just the internet) pretty much everyone seems to carry themselves as some kind of cynical superhero?  We