Thursday, February 25, 2010

baby mama drama interrupting world cup hopes for england

now i know most of you don't do soccer. but i do and i like john terry as a player because he is known for being tough and a bit of an @$$hole maybe by definition of a recent blog entry (whatever he is tough).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247408/John-Terry-Wayne-Bridges-girlfriend-Vanessa-Perroncel-pregnant--England-captain-arranged-abortion.html

but even if you don't do soccer imagine how our nation, nba, or whatever were impacted if two redeem teamers (pick any two; doesn't have to be highest profilers) were engaged in something like this. person A is saying i refuse to play with person b because he got my girlfriend pregnant.... they have already stripped terry of captainship for this act....

wayne bridge says i won't play with terry.... is that the correct thing to do....

can you possibly move on and play after this? where does this rank on "don't let estrogen imbalances impact team chemistry" standard?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

New thinking on NBA Summer of '10

Read 2 interesting articles on the NBA Free Agency this summer:

Basketball Prospectus Ranking of future production for top players over the next 3 years as follows: http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=945
- The Akron Hammer

- DWade
- Chris Bosh

- Manu Ginobli
- Tyrus Thomas

- Amare'
- David Lee
- Rudy Gay
- Dirk Diggler
- Marcus Camby

with Carlos Boozer, Joe Johnson and Ray Allen getting buyer beware flags...Interesting

Bill Simmons' point on the "illusion of regret" creating a chokehold on season-ticket holders is really interesting as well. The paragraph on Summer '10 deserves a quote: "And if the commish doesn't think the NBA is fundamentally screwed up, just look at what happened last week, when the Knicks, Bulls and Clippers all gave away players and/or picks to shave 2010-11 cap space for LeBron, Bosh, Johnson, Stoudemire, Gay, Boozer and Wade. Was it the right thing to do? Sadly, tragically, disgustingly ... yes. The illusion of regret was taken to new heights. Only one fan base can end up with the best player alive. A few others will settle for lesser stars, some will come up empty, and in the case of Knicks fans and Cavaliers fans, there's a chance for genuine damage. Like, "I'm never rooting for those guys again" damage. Just know that the players didn't create this do-or-die scenario; the owners did."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100224

Skewed View of Abortion in the Black Community



I disagree that this is a widespread racial agenda. I have more of a problem with the percentage of children born outside of marriage than anything else. 71.6% of births to Black women in the US are to unwed mothers according to the CDC. This woman said more than 18 million Black children have been aborted and that the Black population could be 59 million strong. Really? Why would that be beneficial? Not in voting power, most Black people don't vote. Maybe in terms of a couple congressman, but at what cost?

What is most likely to happen to a child born to a young, undereducated, not well off woman? The prospects are not positive. It's not like all the Black children born are taken care of the way they should be. There are too many Black women having kids who have no business doing so.

Is there some type of racial agenda? I'm sure some do have an agenda to get more Black women to have abortions, but not enough to be of concern.

I believe this woman's argument is terribly flawed, she said an aborted child cannot rise educationally or economically. Maybe if young single women consistently did a good job of raising their children this would be a valid argument. But then I suspect there wouldn't be a disproportionate percentage of Black women having abortions.

How To Get Beat Down By A 67 Year Old Man



I saw this last week, this young Black guy started talking shit to a 67 year old White man and they went back and forth. Then the young guy allowed a loud mouth instigator to convince him to get in the guys face not once but twice. And he got his ass beat.

Here are the takeaways from the email:

1. Never make a check with your mouth that your ass might have to cash
2. Size matters
3. Listening to big-mouth bitches can get you fucked up!