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From: john smith on 29 Sep 2009 20:46 I did forget UFC Danny, glad you pointed this out. Some sick thing about the American citizen today, they love watching gratuitous violence. They love seeing another human being destroyed. That is something the entertainment world has done to do the world today. They have desensitized the human soul to violence through their graphic,violent mindless movies, video games and this UFC "sport." The same people who love watching this violence find it offensive to watch footage of the Twin Towers falling or real actual war footage where real heroes(american soldiers) died! No don't show them that, show them idiotic violence..
From: tom dunne on 29 Sep 2009 21:44 On Sep 29, 8:46 pm, eddyg...(a)msn.com (john smith) wrote: > I did forget UFC Danny, glad you pointed this out. Some sick thing about > the American citizen today, they love watching gratuitous violence. They > love seeing another human being destroyed. That is something the > entertainment world has done to do the world today. They have > desensitized the human soul to violence through their graphic,violent > mindless movies, video games and this UFC "sport." This isn't an American thing, or even a modern one. The Romans used to watch people actually murder each other for sport in giant arenas, just to pick one easy example. There's nothing in our entertainment world as bad as that. As far as UFC goes, I've seen far worse beatings in professional boxing than in any given MMA match.
From: John Kasupski on 29 Sep 2009 22:04 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:44:32 -0700 (PDT), tom dunne <dunnetg(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Sep 29, 8:46�pm, eddyg...(a)msn.com (john smith) wrote: >> I did forget UFC Danny, glad you pointed this out. Some sick thing about >> the American citizen today, they love watching gratuitous violence. They >> love seeing another human �being destroyed. That is something the >> entertainment world has done to do the world today. They have >> desensitized the human soul to violence through their graphic,violent >> mindless movies, video games and this UFC "sport." > >This isn't an American thing, or even a modern one. The Romans used >to watch people actually murder each other for sport in giant arenas, >just to pick one easy example. There's nothing in our entertainment >world as bad as that. As far as UFC goes, I've seen far worse >beatings in professional boxing than in any given MMA match. I've seen worse beatings in the boys' bathroom at the local middle school. JK
From: John Kasupski on 29 Sep 2009 22:37 On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:26 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxinfla(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Don't discount LaRussa in a short series. I've never thought he was a very good in-game tactician. He overmanages preposterously, and I wish I had a $5 bill for every time I've seen him shoot himself in the foot (so to speak) over the years. This is especially true of how he handles his bullpen. Against that...he does know when it's time to go get his starting pitcher. Where he really excels, though, is in getting the best performance out of his players day after day, inning after inning. His players play for him. If they don't, then they stick around St. Louis very long. Just ask Rolen. While I'm on the subject of the Cardinals - it's hard to question Homer Bailey's work late this season and say it's because he's pitched against teams like the Pirates after tonight, when he limited the division champs to one run over seven innings, striking out seven while walking only one. He even had himself a base hit. He's now 5-1, 1.89 in his last eight starts. Remember a few months ago when Danny was insisting the Reds needed to stick bailey in the rotation and let him pitch? Well, after Volquez got hurt, that's pretty much what they did, and now we're seeing the results. OK, two of the Ks were Piniero (who, incidentally, really looked like Bob Gibson out there for the Cardinals tonight serving up a pair of dingers to Jay Bruce and giving up seven runs in six innings of work). But he fanned Holliday to end the first with a runner in scoring position, fanned DeRosa with runners on second and third to end the fourth and rang him up again to end the sixth, and the only run he allowed scored on a sac fly by Albert The Great. This season has sucked for a lot of us, but some day a few years from now when he's just blanked the Cubs to win the final game of the NLCS for the Reds, we may look back on it someday as the year that Homer Bailey came of age as a major league pitcher. JK
From: David Short on 29 Sep 2009 23:59
"Bob Braun" <oxinfla(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:h9trnr$81f$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "David Short" <David.no.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.edu> wrote in message >> Everybody swinging from the heels is a difference, but I have to believe >> that if it wasn't creating more runs, managers wouldn't put up with it. >> Same thing with runners refusing to hit behind runners. If a manager >> WANTS players that do those things, they would put more of them on the >> rosters, guys would notice and we would see it everyplace. > > They don't have to listen to their managers. They can get their managers > canned, or some other owner will scoop them up if a team dumps them. > > Look at Mangini in Cleveland. He is trying to instill discipline. He has > five grievances filed against him this week, and agents are warning, we > won't let our players sign to play for Mangini. You can't have it both ways. If disciplined players who hit behind runners and don't swing from the heels are what Mangini wants, he can get those kind of players while everybody else is after the guys who don't know how to play the game. If those things are that valuable, then Mangini would win more and everybody would start looking for that kind of player. > Management has little or no control of their players in professional > sports. Do you think Milton Bradley has FINALLY worn out his last welcome? I disagree. Management has all the control. They control the PT. They want to give the PT to the guys who are the most valuable. It seems your predjudaces don't agree with what management thinks is valuable. dfs |