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Today’s Entertainment that I had to share:

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If as a kid you grew up on 80s Actions flicks, you most likely enjoyed Arnold’s Campy lines.  We can all agree that his acting prowess was arguably less than impressive. (OK, sometimes downright awful.)

The people who wrote his movies were smart enough to know that these lines were a big hit, and Arnold’s natural sarcasm pulled them off.  While some display terrible acting, others are golden gems that you really can’t forget.

It’s my belief that these campy lines contributed to the success of his movies.  It got to a point where you were expecting them when watching one of the movies for the first time.

• Stick Around  (Predator.)
• If it bleeds, we can kill.
• Consider that a Divorce  (Total recall)
• I’m a cop you idiot.
• Remember when I promised I’d kill you last…
• Who’s your daddy….
• Get to the Chappaaaaa

And of course, the immortal &  unforgettable:

“I’ll be back.”

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What are some of your favorites?

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A note to my sponsors

 Over 90% of communication is non-verbal.    You hear that little stat thrown out often when people talk about interpersonal human relationships.  Is that number completely accurate?  I don’t know, but I one thing remains certain:  The majority of human communication is established non-verbally.  Such defines the abomination that was Tiger Wood’s presentation and press conference.

  He uttered an obviously carefully written speech by a team of professional speechwriters.  The speech itself was extremely well written.  It hit the right notes, and appealed to the right emotions.  These speeches are written to hit certain psychological points and this speech hit those points.  It appealed to people’s compassion and it appealed to our sense of being humans all too capable of making mistakes.

  One thing was lacking:  Any sort of demeanor that showed he was sincere. He lacked emotion.   It was more like, 

  “Awww, fuck, I gotta do this, because I am in hot water, and my advisors/publicists whom I pay good money for tell me this is the right thing to do.  Sponsors, are you watching this?  Shit, why can’t I just pay someone to read this for me?  Is Steven Seagal available?  He likes making dramatic speeches with no emotion that still trump my delivery….Hey, corporate sponsors, you are watching this, right?”

  Well, I guess Steve Seagal wasn’t available and Tiger was told to do the speech himself. His advisors forgot to give him one pointer: “Hey Tiger, try to come across as sincere and that you really care.”  Or maybe they tried, and this is still what we got.

 Agent Smith from the movie “The Matrix” could have managed to do a better job than this guy.    A soulless robotic speech that became worse with every minute really has stirred up tense reactions, specially from women.

 I suppose most men don’t really care.  They probably have the attitude of “Well, he wanted to bang a lot of chicks.  I’d do it too if I were in his shoes.”  But Tiger’s case is interesting because it resembles another “Scandal” from about 10 years ago, that of President William Jefferson Clinton.

  Intriguingly enough, a lot of women forgave Bill Clinton very quickly.  That’s what’s fascinating about it.  There was this attitude of, “Well, the guy is stressed, and he needed a release.”   In some places, the backlash turned towards Hillary.  Maybe she should have been keeping her man happy.  That’s what makes this comparison amazing. 

 Bill was the President, leader for the free world, fooling around with an intern inserting a cigar in her vagina, and yet most people (without a political agenda) were quick to let it go.  With Tiger, not so much.  One key element separates the two: Likeability.   Clinton comes across as likable, someone you could go to a restaurant and have dinner with as well as a glass of wine. 

 Tiger comes across as a guy who has stick up his ass.  Who knows, he may be a real nice guy to hang with, but his public persona does not convey that, and what’s what matters.  People see the public persona and make a snap judgment.

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•         Identifying with each character

  Here is where it becomes fascinating: Women watching this identify with either one of two characters, the woman who was cheated on, or the one who was cheated with.  There aren’t any other options.

  In Bill Clinton’s case, women who forgave him identified themelves with either Monica or Hilary.  With Monica, they see it as some super filthy romance novel type of torrid affair in the White House.  Those who identify with Hilary, ultimately, come to see it as a mistake made by a man who is a good guy and means well. 

 In Tiger Wood’s case, it’s different.  Those who identify with the mistresses see it as some guy who just used them for cheap sex and was quick to sell them out.  Those who identify with the wife see it as a cheating guy who has no backbone. He went into hiding for months, then finally came out for a press conference where he took no questions, and will go back to hiding.

 If there is a quality more dislikable than infidelity, it’s cowardice.  It’s a guy who is just looking to save his ass and that’s all he cares about.  Such is the way Tiger Woods comes across to the female population.  They can’t see a redeeming quality from either perspective.  As a result, it induces a lot of anger from women.  No matter what, a percentage of women would have been angered by his actions.  There also would have been some who were understanding and very forgiving, a lot more than there are now.

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 In my estimation, Tiger had two choices: 

•  Choice 1:  Admit the situation, make a quick apology, and get back on the golf course.  Allow his playing to dazzle people who do care about golf and those who don’t care about golf don’t watch anyway.   This is what Kobe Bryant  did and he was accused of rape.  Even one account of rape is far worse than multiple accounts of consenting adults engaging in extramarital affairs. 

  Truth of the matter is that in one year, no one is going to give a shit.  Really, no one is going to care in one year.  Some people don’t even care now. 

•   Choice 2: Make a sincere apology, and move on.  This is what he tried to do, but the problem is that he doesn’t have that Bill Clinton “Likable” factor going for him.  By making a lengthy phony apology, he accomplished two things: 

1. Made the situation into a very big deal
2. Made himself look worse, by appearing to be a phony person.   

 As for me, I didn’t care about Tiger Woods before his “Transgressions.”  I don’t care about him now.  I don’t particularly like golf, and don’t even consider it a sport.  It’s a skill-game much like bowling.  Hence, I am rather indifferent to golf, Woods, and the entire issue.  Its sociological impact is what I find intriguing. 

 I find the social significance of this a bit alarming.  Considering that we live in a nation that is waging war on two fronts, Afghanistan & Iraq, an economy full of unemployed people, crashed real estate market, and not to mention that recent quake in Haiti has left people without access to so much as a band-aid. 

   Yet, the eyes of the nation are glued to a 30-minutes press conference because some professional golfer cheated on his wife.  Words can’t begin to describe the absurdity of this.  Basically, some dude you don’t know, who has a wife you don’t know, banged a bunch of sluts you don’t know (but perhaps would like to now), and he is apologizing for 20-minutes for something that is essentially between him and his wife. 

 If you think about it, it makes no sense at all.  It’s like, “Hey, I shouted at my grandma last week.  That was not a nice thing to do.  So……. I am going to apologize to Joe the plumber (or other random guy.)”

  There have been football players who have stabbed people, and killed people.  One guy was completely wasted on alcohol while driving and killed another man.  Granted, they’re not as famous as Tiger Woods, but people have done far worse. 

 I am not a spin-doctor but part of me thinks it would have been better if he has made a 5 minute apology a long time ago.  Something like “I fucked up, I admit it.  I am trying to work it out with my wife.  There are bigger problems in the world.  I am going to get back to doing what I do best, which is my profession and my occupation.  Let’s all get back to our lives…” 

 Instead he dragged it on, and now he is going to take a year off from his job, try to hide in the shadows.  No one will care in a year, except when he announces he is coming back, which will make the issue resurface briefly.  (Which is he should get back to golf quickly.)  All in all, it’  pretty silly.

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 Big UFC event on Saturday night featuring 4 solid matches that should be serve entertaining. 

 If you follow this blog, you know that I am a fan of the UFC and love the Martial Arts in general.  Yes, it probably all started watching Bruce Lee movies when I was a kid, and even though that’s a clichéd story, it holds true for many people including numerous successful professional fighters. 

 I wanted to take a retrospective look at the infant sport of “MMA” and take a look at athletes who pushed boundaries and changed the way we viewed the sport.  This is not about who is better than someone else in a particular fight.  Let’s keep perspective here.  It’s only about fighters that changed the way we think about the sport forever. 

 In the Spirit of Bruce Lee, who changed the way people thought about fighting philosophy, (and even Martial Arts movies for that matter), here are a list of fighters that changed the way WE think about the sport of “Mixed Martial Arts.”

They effectively changed our perceptions about the game by being pioneers of some sort.   The following are the list of 10 fighters, more or less in chronological order.

Royce Gracie

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 Grappling & Submission Wrestling

There from the very beginning in the Ultimate Fighting Championship [UFC], Royce was the one to the who introduced the “Ground Game” and submission style grappling to most of the world.    While not the best Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guy ever, he helped redefine the UFC by allowing us to see that you can be very effective on the ground.  Before that, most people thought that once you were rolling on the ground with a person bigger than you, that it was all over. 

 In essence, yes, it can be all over, but with you submitting that bigger individual.  Royce Gracie showed us that a smaller guy could somewhat neutralize a bigger guy by taking the fight to the ground, wrapping himself like a snake around that guy, until he got hold of a limb to dislocate or disjoint. 

 No where was this more prevalent than when he fought Aki Bono, the sumo wrestler.  Once the heavy giant sumo wrestler was on the ground, it was only a matter of time before Royce found one of his limbs, got an armbar and submitted the man who outweighed him by over a 100 pounds. 

  In essence, Royce Gracie changed the way we viewed the role of grappling in a fight. 

Mark Coleman:

Mark Coleman

 The Ground And Pound!

After Royce Gracie introduced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the sport sported some dull matches where people stuck inside the guard of somebody spent most of their time trying to escape out of that position. 

 Mark Coleman showed that he was comfortable staying there, keeping his balance, and punching the hell out of the Jiu Jitsu guy lying on his back.

 Effective Ground and Pound.  If you were in someone’s guard, you had to escape that position.  Not with Mark.  Heavy handed and strong, Mark showed that he could punish you with a barrage of punches and elbows even from being inside someone’s guard.  The “Godfather of the Ground and Pound” as he is known,  changed the game forever.

 Mark Coleman changed the way we looked at being in someone’s guard forever.  In fact, because of his ability to pound someone while on the ground,  a new vernacular was introduced to the Lexicon of MMA vocabulary: “The Ground and Pound!” 

Mark Coleman was a true pioneer.  Enter…. “The Ground & Pound!”
        

Chuck Liddell:

Chuck Liddell

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 Keep The Fight Standing Regardless!

 One of my favorites in this category, the haymaker throwing chuck forever changed our perception.  Before chuck, an unspoken consensus had risen that all fights must go to the ground and that’s just the way it had to be. 

    By displaying excellent take-down Defense, Chuck repeatedly blocked attempts from Wrestlers and Jiu Jitsu guys alike, forcing them into a striking battle which often resulted in Chuck emphatically knocking them the fuck out.  And by the way, if they did succeed in taking him to the ground, the average time Chuck spent down there before escaping to get back on his feet:  16 seconds!!   Amazing! 

 Chuck would find a way to escape and get back on his feet where he could continue to rain down bombs on people. 

Chuck displayed exemplary take-down defense, and masterful escapes to keep the fights standing up in a kickboxing match.  Twice he knocked out Olympic-Caliber wrestler Randy Couture; Twice he knocked out grappler Tito Ortiz; and twice he knocked out Brazilian Jiu Jitsu master Renato Sobral. 

Unfortunately, for Chuck, his style of throwing haymakers took a setback when people started figuring out that you could beat him if you were well versed in a disciplined classical Western-Boxing style of punching.  Nevertheless, he is recognized as the most popular fighter in current UFC history, and it’s a well-deserved title. His mohawk and overall look reminded you of a White-supremacist who had just broken out of prison.  That “Scary” look only worked in his favor in establishing him as a legend who knocked people out. 

He is a true pioneer in changing the way we thought about MMA cage fighting.

Chuck Liddell changed the way we thought about having to go to the ground in every fight.  He showed that you could keep the fight standing against an Olympic level Wrestler and knock him out.  He is an unquestionable pinoeer in changing  MMA observer’s perceptions about the MMA fighting game.

 Mirko “Cro-Cop” Filipovich:

You KNEW this was coming, right?

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Head Kicks!
            
  Much like Chuck Liddell, Crocop had excellent takedown defense but more precision and technical striking than Chuck. (Though he wasn’t as skilled in escaping as Liddell.)    His left head-kick routinely knocked people out.  Prior to “Cro-Cop”, you didn’t see a whole lot of effective head-kicks. 

 Headkicks were considered a waste of time and effort, and if you managed to land one, it would have been considered lucky. Certainly, there was the famous Pete Williams head kick against in a gassed-out &  fatigued Marc Coleman in overtime, (and a few others), but they were considered somewhat of anomaly. People often thought of head-kicks as a general waste of time and effort.  Mirko “Cro-cop” changed all of that.

 Mirko Crocop took it to another level . He knocked people out consistently with a vicious left kick to the head that the opponents KNEW was coming at some point.  That was the scary part.  People knew that this was his main weapon and Crocop still pulled it off.  In a flash, he could swing hat left leg  a like an extra long, extra  heavy baseball bat.

 In his fight with Wanderlei Silva, Wanderlei KNEW that at some point Crocop was going to try that head-kick, and yet, cropcop still connected knocking hout Wandereli out-cold for a solid two minutes. 

 Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovich forever changed the way we viewed the effectiveness of head-kicks in a professional fight.

Wanderlei Silva:   
               

Wanderlei Sliva

 Clinch Work.  Vicious barrage of knees in the clinch.   

 At a time, where a lot of fighters liked to loiter and waste time in the clinch, Wanderlei’s usage of his vicious knees knocked people out in devastating fashion.  Employing subsequent hard knees to the forehead, he laid people out flat on the mat as he walked away.  Your perception of the clinch game had been changed forever after you’d watched a few Silva fights.

 Wanderlei’s handwork was primarily a barrage of hook punches that were thrown like bombs.  He didn’t really employ the “Sweet Science.”  You weren’t going to see a jab, cross, hook, uppercut, 4-punch combo from Wanderlei.  He threw hard kicks, hook punches, and once he got in clinch/trapping range, the opponent came to know his knees intimately.

Sporting a frightening looking face and a vicious fighting style, he lived up to his nickname of “The Axe Murder.”

 Wanderlei Silva changed the way we thought of what proper aggressive Clinch-work ought to look like.

Anderson Silva:

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  Precision technical striking. 

  While he was not a pioneer of sorts, he helped define what beautiful precision striking would look like.  He is light years ahead of anyone else in the game when it comes to striking, punches and kicks.  His nickname of “Spider” could easily be changed the “Matrix” because that’s what he looks like.  As though he is in the matrix where everyone else moves in slow motion around him.

 Watching/reading interviews with people such as Dan Inosanto, I often read things such as “I’ve never seen anyone who was as fast and precise as Bruce Lee.”  It made me wonder what it’d look like to watch someone strike with such quickness and precision.  I wondered what accurate, precise, powerful striking flowing in harmony would look like.  
 

 Watching Anderson Silva fight against former champ Forrest Griffin gave me an idea of what such quick & accurate striking looks like.  Silva made Griffin look like an inexperienced clueless high school kid thrown in the ring to be eaten by the lion. He toyed with Griffin, kept his hands down, dodged punches and throw few shots, all of which connected.

 His performance was reminiscent of Boxer Roy Jones Jr. in his prime.   While Silva is great all around (he submitted and choked out world-class wrestler Dan Henderson), it’s his striking that is a thing of beauty to watch everytime he sets foot in the Octagon.  He is so far ahead of everyone in his weight class that he cleaned out the 185 pound division in the UFC, and bored after doing that, he is now fighting in the light heavyweight 205lb class.  He is widely recognized as the best “Pound for Pound” fighter along with the following athlete, GSP.

 Anderson Silva changed the way we view precision striking forever.  He set a standard of what it accurate, fast, flowing striking ought to  look like.

Georges St. Pierre:

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 The Modern Day Athlete

 GSP, as he is now known, showed us to face of the new modern day complete package Athlete-fighter.  Long gone are the days of brawlers, fat guys with beer breath, and karate guys who looked like they’d never sparred in their lives.  GSP is a raw natural athlete who is well skilled, adapts efficiently, and learns quickly. 

 While having started with a background in Karate & striking, his grappling skills have improved so astronomically that he started to embarrass career wrestlers.  He starts training with the Canadian Olympic wrestling team, and then,  they ask him to try out to represent Canada in that sport (which he refuses.)  The guy is that good. 

 In his 2^nd fight with Matt Hughes, George St. Pierre  knocked out Hughes with punches and a vicious left kick.  In their 3^rd fight, GSP took Hughes to the ground, outwrestled him at his own game, and completely outclassed Matt Hughes on the ground to submit Matt Hughes.  (Keep in Mind that Hughes is a career wrestler.)  When you realize that GSP came to MMA with minimal grappling skills, you develop an appreciation for the athlete (And hard worker), he must be to make such strides so quickly. 

 While GSP did not introduce any new styles or techniques, he showed us a glimpse of what can happen when superior super-athletes become involved in this sport.  Combining his superior athletecism with hard work, GSP has dominated top level competition.  He does not squeeze out wins, but completely outclasses top level compettion, twice destroying Matt Hughes, displaying absolute dominance over top level contenders, BJ Penn, Jon Fitch, and Thiago Alves. 

Strong, Agile, Explosive, he shows us what’s to come in the future of the sport.   

Lyoto Machida: 

Incorporating &  Introducing Elements of a New Style: Karate!

 Let’s face it.  Most modern MMA fighters follow a simple boring formula because it’s safe and they figure it’s tested.  Few guys step outside the box and look to venture into incorporating various elements of various Martial Arts.  They’ll do some Muay Thai, some wrestling and Jiu Jitsu and that’s 90% of the fighters out there.  Some may venture out and work with an actual “Western Boxing” coach who teaches them some proper hand combos and even uppercuts.

 Few MMA fighters are willing to venture out this boring formula.  View are willing to explore, and incorporate new things.  Few are progressive.   Granted the formula works, but it’s potential is also more limited.  A great athlete can venture outside this formula and gain greater skills by incorporating other techniques from other Martial Arts.

 With his Karate background, Machida ventured into breaking that boring mold.  With Kicks that came from all sorts of various angles, a different stance, and precision that’s 2^nd only to Anderson Silva, he knocked people out while confusing them.  You have to respect Machida for this.  Most of his opponents have trouble preparing for him because they can’t even find sparring partners who resemble his style. (And yes, we can all agree that Shogun Rua beat him.)  There is something to be learned from Machida’s refusal to blend in, and ordering from the same menu every other fighter does. 

  He deserves credit for changing our minds.  Before Machida, everyone thought you had to go to a nice Muay Thai school to fight in the Octagon or MMA in general.   Lyoto Machida changed that.   

 One can only hope that future talented fighters will venture out and use elements of Kung-fu, Kali, Silat, or other Filipino martial arts, (and various other arts out there) incorporating them into their overall game.   There are still many arts out there that begged to be explored. 

 Honorable Mentions: 

Randy Couture: 

For being a competitive fighter at age 45 fighting men 20 years his junior.  Randy brings his best to every fight and fighting at such an age, he changes the way we think what a 45 year-old man can do.  Randy should also get a nod for being a good strategist who studies his opponents very carefully before a  fight.  Like a football or basketball scout, he watches a lot of film on his opponent looking to take advantage of their weakness.   He is recognized as a legend in the sport and continues to inspire many people. 

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 Fedor Emelianenko  :

Sheer Dominance

   Changed the way we think about a dominant fighter.  When you look at Fedor’s photo, you may think he is a guy who office worker behind a desk who dabbles in a bit of weight training.  Powerful, agile, explosive, Fedor is a dangerous guy who can transition from standing to grappling and back, he is 30-1 in his fighting career (and that loss was a bit of a fluke)  and seems to find a way to win against everyone.   

 He has forever changed our perception of a dominant fighter and a super athlete.  He also shows us that athletic prowess doesn’t mean you have to look like a chiseled “Bodybuilder”.   He is perhaps most famous for his icy-cold demeanor, which resembles more of a guy bored at a corporate meeting, rather than a man about to step into fight.  

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Frank Shamrock:

 In many ways, Frank Shamrock is the forgotten fighter.  No one really thinks of him in discussions these days, but he was one of the pioneers.  In the early days of the UFC, he showed us the representation of a well-rounded fighter.  Long before days of guys like GSP and Anderson Silva, Frank Shamrock stood as the guy who could submit you with a leg-lock or knock you out with a punch.   There weren’t many guys who were that balanced in the early days of the sport taking on formidable competition.  

 A brash smack-talker, and ultimately a good guy, Frank knew how to sell fights.  Unfortunately, due to being under-paid in those days, Frank walked away from the UFC as a champion in his prime.  He relinquished his title and walked into a bit of obscurity.  He remains the forgotten fighter who doesn’t get his due. 

 Nevertheless, he changed our perception by showing us  a glimpse of what a well-rounded fighter would look like in the late 1990s of the UFC.

A few special nods should be thrown out to some guys.  While they didn’t change the way we think forever, they showed glimpses of interesting things.  BJ Penn showed us what dexterity and extreme flexibility could do, while Rampage Jackson showed an alternative way of getting out of someone’s guard by employing his “Power Bombs” which would destroy anyone if they were on any sort of hard surface. 

I ran this list by my brother who is also a fellow MMA fan.  He added two names, Tito Ortize & Marco Ruas.   Tito Ortiz should get a nod for being so efficient with his weight-cutting.  Able to make weight-cutting a science, Tito could step into the ring heavier & stronger than his competition.   Marco Ruas during one particular fight in the very early days of the UFC showed most fight-fans what damage leg-kicks could inflict.  In his match against a giant man named the Polar-bear, Marco chopped him down like a tree with effective leg-kicks.  It was memorable that if you saw that fight back then, you’d never forget it.

Lastly, special acknowledgment to Ken Shamrock for representing an early somewhat well-rounded fighter, even though his stand-up is terrible by modern standards.   I am torn on the Ken Shamrock issue, as part of me feels he ought to more than just a special nod.   By modern standards, he is not well balanced, but back in the beginning, he did represent what a well-balanced fighter ought to look like. 

Ken Shamrock

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  There you have it. 10 Fighters who changed the way we viewed the sport of MMA forever, plus some special nods.   Remember this is a list for men who changed our way of thinking and our perceptions.  For example, you may be a fan of Matt Hughes personally, but while dominant for a good period, he remains a great grappler and rather mediocre striker who hasn’t really done anything  to introduce  a new aspect to the sport of Mixed Martial Arts.  There are even great champs from the mid 90s period such as Bas Rutten and Don Frye, but they don’t make this list as pioneers of something new.  

 While you may not be a fan of some of the guys mentioned above, you do have to admit that they brought something new to the fighting game.  Whether it was the “ground-and-pound” of Mark Coleman, or keeping the fight standing through the entire fight ala Chuck Liddell, these men changed our perceptions forever. 

 As the Sport grows, there will inevitable be more phenomenal athletes who will change our perception in new ways to come.

 If you think I missed anyone who should be in the list above, feel free add the name and  discuss why:

Kobe Bryant

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 Kobe Bryant is the most intriguing social-outcast in Los Angeles Sports history.   Seldom will you run into a player who has so much success and yet is so detested by his own hometown crowd.   People from various walks of life dislike Kobe. You talk to the average L.A. resident and you’ll often hear casual fans say, “I used to like the Lakers, but I just can’t stand Kobe.”  Women specially dislike Kobe, and I used to think it was due to his rape trial, but then I learned, it wasn’t even that.  

Many women will concede that it’s possible that was an extortion plot to milk some money out of a rich athelete superstar, so they’re not angry about the rape trial.  It just seems that their sixth sense/intuition tells them that this guy can be a bit of scumbag.  It is an anomaly to see an athlete so dislike in his own hometown, sometimes by the very fans of the team he plays for.

 Kobe is the exact opposite of Magic Johnson whom everyone loves.  Magic is an anomaly in that he breaks color barriers.  Regardless of whether someone is White, Black, Asian or Eskimo, they can identify with Magic. Think about it and you’ll find it to be true.  You don’t see Magic as a “Black guy” or this or that.  You just see him as a good guy you’d like to meet.  Perhaps that’s the way it should always be, but clearly, it’s not how things unfold in the real world.

Magic appeals to the non-basketball fan.  Kobe is detested by that same non-basketball fan despite his attempts to appear as the nice sweet caring family man.  Somehow, there is a voice in your mind that screams, “Hey, Kobe, I am NOT buying this act you’re putting on!”

  Which brings it to ME: The Los Angeles Lakers Fanatic. 

In 20 plus year as a Laker Fan, never have I been so frustrated watching a superstar that played for my team.

 Kobe has been the best player in basketball for years.  You can make a case for Lebron being better now (and I’d agree) , but then, you’d still have Kobe at a very close 2^nd best player in the entire league.

To me, the game of basketball’s objective is simple: 

• Offense: Get as many high-percentage shots as you can. 
• Defense: Prevent other team from high percentage shot attempts. Force them into low percentage shots.

That’s all the game of basketball is when you break it down to its most simple component.  Sometimes, it really is that simple.

So, when you watch a game, (and when it’s done properly within a team concept, it’s beautiful to watch,) you’ll see Pick’n Rolls, Give & Gos, Weak Side Picks, Backdoor cuts on the baseline off of those weakside screens….. all designed for one purpose: To get you a high percentage shot: Preferably a “Layup” or a “Slam-Dunk” from 2 feet away.

 Which is why as a Laker fan, it’s so frustrating to watch Kobe single handedly throw games away shooting the ball 13 for 34, losing the games.  It’s not just that he shoots the ball poorly, but that attitude and selfishness deflates his teammates.  They’re no longer willing to move around on offense because what’s the point?  “The Jackass isn’t going to pass anyway.”

They’re not going to hustle back on transition defense because they’re disgusted with the state of the game.  This is what Kobe doesn’t get, or maybe he does.  I am sure he does get it, but he doesn’t care.  It’s apathy.
       

Jerry West - The Logo

 A (very) brief history on the Lakers

  As a kid, I grew up watching NBA basketball in its golden age.  Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Cooper, and company versus Bird, McHale, Parish and Co.  I could watch Magic score a mere 12 points in a game and completely control the tempo and “Feel” of of the game.  It’s hard to explain or grasp on paper.  It has to be watched and seen.

 In High School, I got my hands on every piece of basketball literature I could find.  I’d read about the older teams and study Laker History in particular.  I’d read about George Mikan in the Minneapolis Lakers to Jerry West.

  I’d learn about how Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest physical specimen’s to set foot on a basketball court also had just as big a ego to match.  I’d learn how the man who average 50 points per game for an entire season put his scoring aside when he joined the Lakers and Jerry West.  He focused on defense, rebounding and passing the ball.   In the 71-72 season, Lakers won the championship (not to mention 33 games in a row) with Wilt scoring only 15 points a game on 9.3 shot attempts as he average 19.2 rebounds.   (Jerry West and Goodrich each average 26 pts per game that season.) 

 He put his ego aside to win.  That’s the Lakers’ way, and the way it’s always been.  People seem to put ego aside when they join this franchise because they know winning comes first.  Bob McAdoo is another such example, a problem player league MVP who finally found a home with the Lakers.

  The end of last season, the NBA officially finished its 60th year anniversary.  In those 60 years, the Lakers have been in the Playoffs for 56 of them, 30 times to the finals, with 15 championships to show for it.  They’ve been to half the finals and have won 25% of the championships.

In 60 Years, 56 Playoff Appearances, 30 NBA Finals, 15 Championships for the Lakers.

 Because the organization historically, from top to bottom, is about winning, not about indiviual accolades.

  Which brings us to one Kobe Bean Bryant, the man who is all about himself.  The man who has not one, but TWO starting 7 footers who can play the low-post to dominate, but still can’t get himself to run a team offense.

  Watch the games, specially in the 4^th quarter:  There are times when Kobe dribbles up the court and you know damn well, he has absolutely no interest in passing it.  He decided he is going to shoot before he got to the half court line and nothing is going to get in his way.  It won’t matter how terrible of a shot he takes, he is going to do it anyway.

  This is the Kobe WE [The Lakers fan] are stuck with.  The same Kobe who makes spectacular buzzer beaters is the one who is going to lose games because he wants to make the game a “Playground” game at times.   You take the bad with the good.  He can’t just give us the good.  His self-absorption is too great for that. 

 One thing needs to be said for that.  What a lot of casual fans don’t fathom is that if Kobe has orchestrated a little better, there’d be no need for those last second buzzer beaters.  They’d be up by double digits at the end of the game.  The fact that they’re in that position to need a buzzer-beater at home versus a mediocre team  is also often times due to Kobe’s ulra self-absorption.  It’s frustrating to watch games and not see professional analysts and commentators not mention this. 

 This is why we lost the recent game at Cleveland.  Kobe consistently loses games to Lebron because he wants to have a 1 on 1 battle.  In the first quarter, they ran the offense properly and had a 12 point lead.  In the 4^th, Kobe needed to prove, he can score.  We know he can score.  He averaged 35points per game for a whole season, not to mention 81 points in a single game. 

 Kobe has Gasol, Bynum, and Odom off of the bench. Lebron has mostly bums and a fat sloth named Shaquille.   Lebron has to try to force the issue.  Kobe Doesn’t.  Lebron does not have what Kobe has: A strong supporting cast.  Yet, Lebron does his best to encourage his teammates.  Kobe annoys them! 

 Watching a recent game at Madison Square Garden drove me crazy.  So much so, that I went back, rewatched the 4^th quarter, and wrote down what took place on every single possession in the Laker offense:

LA @ NY.    Jan 22^nd, 2010

4^th Quarter Laker offense:

-11:49  Gasol goes to the line to shoot Free-Throws

-11:21  Kobe free throw.  Note:  Kobe fouled on a back-door cut from a screen.  Pass from Gasol playing high post)

-10:45  Odom hits 15ft baseline jumper- Pass from Kobe’s drive & kick

-10:19 Kobe hits jumper off of 1 on 1 move, hand in his face. 

-9:44  Kobe Misses forced jumper from 1 on 1 move. Odom rebounds, passes to Kobe.

-9:28  Kobe Misses another jumper, forced 1 on 1 move from baseline this time

-8:50 Shannon Brown makes a 3-pointer

-7:59 Odom makes open jumper. Pass from a Double-teamed Gasol.

-7:36  Gasol Posts up & makes Shot

-7:09  Brown Misses 3-point attempt.  Odom another Offensive board

-7:04  Gasol tips in Odom’s offensive board tip in attempt

-6:36 Kobe Misses 3-point shot

-6:12 Kobe forces it.  Called for Offensive Foul

-5:35 Gasol travels on what would have been easy lay up

:5:10  Kobe shoots free throws, after being bailed out by refs

-4:30  Kobe makes a 3-pointer off of Gasol Double-Team

-4:03: Gasol post up. Beautiful spin move. Bucket + foul

-3:32: Kobe blatantly ignores Gasol posting up.  Misses 3-pointer badly.  I yell profanities out-loud at Kobe on this possession. 

-3:07 Gasol shoots free throws- Open in post.

-2:25 Kobe never considers passing to anyone in this possession.  Shoots free throws after refs bail him out on a horrible drive

-1:52 Kobe misses another jumber- Off board to Lakers.

-1:19  Kobe misses lay up off in bounds pass.

-00:40  Kobe airballs a very deep 3-pointer.

• Recap of 4the quarter: 

Gasol makes 3 baskets, and also attempts 5 free throws.

Odom, and Kobe make shots off of Gasol double-teams.

Kobe: 2 for 7 shooting.1 offensive foul.

Kobe: Shoots 6 free throws. (4 of which were bail outs he may not get in a playoff game.)

• Final line for the entire game:

Kobe shoots: 8 for 24, an unflattering 33.33%

Pao Gasol shoots: 7 for 10   

Andrew Bynum shoots: 7 for 11  

Gasol & Bynum combine for a total of 14 out of 21.   67% – Shooting percentage, (not to mention GOOD Things happen when they get double teamed in the post.) Stats do not tell the whole story here.  When your post player gets double-teamed, it leads to over all good fuzzy-feeling things on the court. 

 This is the Kobe we’ve got.  We need him on the team to win the championship, and yet we can’t get over that he is selfish, self-absorbed individual only out for himself.  Some people say Michael Jordan was the same way, but then again, Jordan is also well known for being a douchebag (and he never played for the Lakers, so I don’t care.) You can also make the case that Jordan had stiffs as big men.  He never has a Shaq in his prime, and never had two solid post-men in Gasol & Bynum. 

 A simpleton may yell out: “But Kobe wins.”  This is true, but he wins because he is on teams that have by far the most talent in the league.  Magic & Kareem could not have beaten formidable competion against the Celtics or the 76ers playing self-absorbed ball.  They had to involve every essence of team, and even then, it was tough. 

 Kobe’s championship teams have by far the most talent in the league.  This year in particular, anything less than a championship is a failure for the Lakers.  And yet, as a Laker fan, you’re worried……..   You’re worried about that playoff series where the series stands at 2 games to 1, and in that pivotal 4^th game, the series can either be tied 2-2, or one team can go up 3-1.  The series’ fate can be determined in this game crucial game. 

During that Game, will Kobe decide to take 35 shots, forcing bad shots, and neglecting his two talented post-up big men in Gasol and Bynum?  Will Kobe’s desire to be Mr. Hero be greater than his desire to want to win the game?  This is what’s frustrating with Kobe.  You admire that he is by far the hardest worker in all of the NBA, and that he is so focused.   Without him playing, we don’t have a chance of winning the championship.  Yet, he drives you crazy with his selfishness. 

 That is the essence of Kobe.  He is the poison you’re stuck with.  Will he administer the poison to the opposition or to our own team?

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Is there a more ridiculous sport than Bodybuilding?

It’s Super Bowl Week in America, and in honor of the grand spectacle, I’m going    to write a few sports related blog entries.  Speaking of “Sports,” it made me wonder: Is Bodybuilding actually a sport?    If you are a fan of this “Sport” and happened to suddenly find your way on this blog, before you start spewing venom and hatred on my Blog, you should first understand the perspective I am coming from.

Except for a bad three-year stint of being lackadaisical, I’ve been involved in doing sports in one way or another since high school. I’ve been lifting weights for the past ten years or so, and I highly recommend it to everyone, male/female, younger/older, whatever.  Hence, my issue is not with weight lifting.

More over, I really don’t care if you lift weights due to vain reasons of wanting to look good in front of a mirror.  I’ve done that myself and know plenty of guys in the gym who the same thing.  I can respect your right to wanting to sport the best physique possible in front of the mirror.  Most guys (and women) who start lifting do initially for aesthetic reasons. Look, everyone wants to look good shirtless (or bottomless) and few actually have the drive to do something about it.  No argument there.

So what are we really talking about there?  An official “Sport” dedicated to posing on stage against each other while judges decided whose body appeases them more.  And believe it or not, in my early 20s, this made sense to me.  I even read the magazines, Flex, Musclemag, and other publications back then.  Then one day, I woke up and thought, “What the f**k kind of a sport is this?”  Suddenly, the whole completely ceased to not only make sense, but it seemed rather silly.

For some reason, it all made sense to me way back when.  Then almost overnight, I had a weird realization:  What does it say about a sport when the entire basis for competition is a bunch of grown men getting up on stage and engaging in a pose-off? They don’t really compete against each other directly.  They are not even competing indirectly in the way gymnasts do.  They are simply posing!  Grown men posing and flexing their biceps in front of judges and a miniscule audience to decide who has better looking biceps.

I say grown men because if a bunch of drunken 19-year-old teenagers started engaging in a pose-off, then you’d just dismiss it as, “Well, drunken teens.  It’s the way it goes.”  But grown men, sober, training all year so they can strike a better pose?  [All that’s missing is Madonna’s song Vogue on that stage., and sometime that may not even be a joke. ]

Being a fan of physical fitness, I respect most forms of athletic competition.  Even a sport such as Baseball, one that is ridiculed by many of my European friends, is still a sport that is very highly competitive.  Trying to swing a bat at a ball traveling at 95 miles per hour, versus the next one that is curving away from you at 75 miles, takes a lot of skill. (As does throwing those pitches.)

I can highly respect Power lifters and Olympic weight lifters.  Squatting a 800, 900, or a 1000 pounds is an incredible athletic feat by a human being.  Watching someone clean and jerk enormous amount of weight, like a human crane, is awe-inspiring.  But then, what about grown men building low-functional muscles to just show them off? Men who have just pumped up muscles that have very low functionality?

What does it say for a sport when you hear the following conversations at a competition?

-Competitor X has enormous deltoid muscles.  His posterior and mid delts are looking fine but his anterior delts are a bit smaller in proportion.  Over all, good delts.  Competitor Y has smaller deltoids but enormous lat muscles.  His Biceps aren’t very elongated but they’re more compact as he flexes.

-Competitor Z is sporting nice hamstrings, but his quads could use some help in relation to both competitor X and Y.

- Can that be considered a sport?  Grown ass men posing in G-Strings as to who has the hotter body?

Oooh, Look at me! Look at me!

What are some Arguments that are supposed to establish bodybuilding as a legitimate sport:

• “These are World Class Athletes”

Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contest participants would like to be considered “World Class Athletes.”  That’s the problem… It opens the Pandora’s box, and does it ever….  See, when you go that direction, you’re going to open yourself to being compared to NBA Basketball players, NFL Football players, Boxers, Olympic level gymnasts, wrestlers, and Track & field athletes, as well as MMA fighters.

Yet, I’d bet you I can find high school level all-state basketball players who’d run circles around these “World Class” Bodybuilder athletes, and we are not talking basketball skills.  I am simply talking Agility, mobility, and coordination.

Many of the above mentioned athletes use resistance training to strengthen muscle, and they do so for function and practicality.  The end goal is not posing on stage in a G-string.

• “Lifting heavy weights is an Athletic endeavor.”
  

And I agree with you, except modern professional Bodybuilders are not that strong when compared to world class level strength athletes.  A world class Olympian lifter or powerlifter will squat or press twice what your average puffed up-posing on stage bodybuilder will do.  So Mr. Universe is most likely far stronger than you and I,  but world class?  Forget about it.

Certainly, you have to be blessed with the proper genetics to become a bodybuilder, and a supreme athlete who could have otherwise excelled in a legitimate sport may opt to become a professional bodybuilder for whatever reason.  Yet, it doesn’t change the fact that you have people posing to see who has cuter muscles.

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So I ask again, is there a more ridiculous sport than this?  And yes, I get that they’re trying to treat the human body as some sort of a sculpture by adding pieces to the muscles to create this perfect physique.  I get it.   It’s not the endeavor that’s alarming.  It’s that it’s turned into a “Sport.”And yet, it’s still a bunch of grown men who trained for the past 9 months to pose against each other.  (Not to mention poor dietary habits, taking insane amounts of roids/growth hormone/insulin; and then taking massive prespecritpion grade diuretics days before the event, just to go on stage for an hour and look great in tiny little Speedos. )

Before you say I don’t understand what it takes to become a bodybuilder, you should know that I’ve been around competing bodybuilders.   I am aware that it’s not an easy endeavor.  There is a lot of sacrifice.  I get that.  Going through periods of torturous “Cutting down” diets where you eat ungodly amounts of meat while dehydrating yourself to the point of insanity before a contest.

It’s just that something seems wrong with a sport where eating an organically grown apple, banana, or orange is wrong, but then you are forced to eat enough meat in one day that could feed an entire village in South East Asia for a whole week.  All so you can have more puffed out muscle on stage.

And yes, I am familiar with the precision of trying to stack various amounts of anabolic steroids.  Taking the right amount of D-bol, synthetic testosterone, Winstrol, and some Deca for joints and help in recovery, tapering off of it while adding testosterone boosters to get your body’s production back up to speed, and supplementing with HGH….   Two weeks before you cycle off, you gotta hit the clomid or (if you can get it, receive HCG injections)  to get your normal test production up to speed.  (No, I haven’t taken roids or “Gear”, but I’ve learned enough about them from reading and being around the gym-rats.)

I’ve been around guys who do compete in this endeavor and it’s not easy trying to manage the three variables: 1-the Proper diet, 2-proper training, and 3-the accurate anabolic steroid stack cycling.  I know it’s not easy.

Maybe the fact that it seems ridiculous comes from the transformation of the contestants in recent decades.  In my early teens, you could look at a bodybuilder as sort of the ultimate manifestation of masculinity and male physique.  To male teenagers, there is the appeal of the ultimate male representation in such a physique.   As an example, Here is a picture of Arnold in his prime:

Arnold - Governator

Somehow we went from the above  to the grotesque representation of a human body below:

The Blob of Random Muscle

A giant mound and blobs of muscle (And I’m with you: Who knew an alien could grow out of a human ass??)

It’s what Jabba the hut woud look like if it lifted weights:

If only Jabba was motivated...

It’s sort of what Jabba-the-hut would like if he lifted weights, wouldn’t you agree?    In recent decades, bodybuilders starting injecting massive amounts of Human Growth Hormone [HGH] and the growth hormone abuse led to the new look bodybuilder with the protruding stomach.  Compare the Arnold slim abs to the one below.  This is a roid-gut:

The "Roid Gut"

The above individual is NOT fat, but rather, abuse of HGH has not only grown his muscles but it also grown his intestines from the inside.  That’s how you get his protruding stomach look.   Compare that stomach with the Arnold photo, and you’ll note the  HGH difference.  (And Arnold did his fair share of steroids.  But the Steroid technology has improved drastically since the 1970s.)

On top of that, something interesting happened.  One day a group of bodybuilding bandits dressed in bandanas and tank tops intercepted trucks full of insulin en route to poor suffering diabetics in a remote village.  The professional bodybuilding world changed forever.

Apparently injecting Insulin, (as well as Anabolic Steroids + Human Growth Hormone) enables your muscles to even grow bigger than even Arnold imagined.

And that’s how you get the look of Jabba the bodybuilder…

Yet, at the end of the day, it all amounts to puffed out grown men, fresh out of the tanning salon, posing on stage.  Can that competition be considered an athletic event?  Grown ass men posing in tights on stage as to who has a nicer ass!  Is this a sport?  We don’t call female beauty pageants a sport.  This is a male pageant except it’s not so beautiful!

I am sure if a competitive bodybuilder were to read this article, he/she would slightly peeved, but then again, it’s one person’s opinion.  Alright, relax.  I am not saying we should outlaw these contests, nor am I advocating that we should cut up these puffed out guys, turn them into “Soylent Green” and feed hungry people in Africa.

I am just asking a question. Is this really a sport? While I am certain, there are great athletes in professional bodybuilding, does it still count as a sport? If so, is there a more ridiculous sport than this where once again, grown ass men, pose against each other to see who has the nicer lats, pecs, or butt?

It’s a great sports weekend coming up.  UFC on Saturday night featuring 4 very good matchups, (though none great), and then the big Football game on Super Bowl Sunday.

 So, the Super-Bowl is less than a week away, (I’m excited about it) and we’re going to see the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints.  And are YOU going to be the person to tell Peyton Manning, Dwight Freeney, Drew Brees, and Reggie Bush, that the three guys pictured below, (Yes, the same 3 guys who are shaking their cute butts on stage so judges can decipher who has the nicer ass in a g-string), that these guys feel they should be considered on the same plain as them???

I shake my tush on the Catwalk... yeah...

Well, you could tell them, but you’d hurt Peyton’s and Drew’s feelings, and that’s not nice.

Please discuss…

 I am excited to unleash a new feature on the Blog!  Recently, I realized that since I started the blog, I’ve written over a 100 articles on dating and social interactions (and some purely for entertainment) .  And If I may be modest, most of it these articles are far superior advice and more informative than most of the Ebooks and various products you’ll find out there from the socially creepy dating wannabe gurus. 

 So with that in mind, I created a compilation archive of various articles which I categorized under varies topics.  On the top right of the blog page, you’ll see a “Starter Guide” tab which will take you to this archive page.

 Any feedback appreciated.  It still needs more work, and for some reason, Wordpress does not seem to like headers very much.  It distorts headline sentences so I gotta figure how to fix that.

  Anyhow, enjoy the new archive.  Whether you’re new to the blog, or a veteran reader, you’ll get a lot of this free resource.   (Which for some reason I haven’t seen on any other dating Blog.)

Take a look, Enjoy, Bookmark, and come back again:

http://attractwomenanywhere.com/blog/starter-guide/

 Take care,
Cameron

This is a popular sighting in action films, which I used to make comments to my friends about.  Glad to see someone made a video of this phenomenon. 

 Here it is:   Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions

 An explosion of that magnitude is one of the coolest things you could ever see in life.    Well, not to mention that there may debris, shrapnel and flying metallic parts coming towards at a high velocity.  Forget the safety factor, you’re too cool to even look at it from a spectator’s point of view.

 Besides the comedy factor, there is a lesson to be learned here.  The proverbial “Cool Guy” characters in major motion pictures walk away without looking because they do NOT care.  Remember, that article about “Dating 9s and 10s?” I wrote last week?

 Same dynamic.  If she does not reciprocate the effort you put forth, you ought to be willing to walk away (preferably in slow motion.)  And if Mark Wahlberg can walk away from that spectacular explosion (1:25 in the video), then you shouldn’t have to worry about walking away. 

 So how does it relate to dating?  So, you’re not feeling the chemistry with that hot girl.  You’re willing to walk away (without setting her on fire. FYI.)  You don’t try extra hard to try and make it work.  You walk away….  (Btw, I’ve done my fair share of trying too hard to make a cold-approach work, and from experience, I’d tell ya that it’s not really a good idea.)    I still, however, would look at an explosion.

 But then you didn’t get the girl!.  Yes, You didn’t “get” the girl and you don’t really care.

 Your pals and acquaintances may say “Hey man, you didn’t get the girl” and guess what…. You don’t care about what they have to say about it either…   There are a lot of important things to care about in life, but initial approach interactions (and apparently explosions) are not part of them.

 Plus, remember there are tens of millions of attractive women in the world.   You will come across many of them.   How often in life will you see a movie-type explosions that uses 100s of gallons of gasoline to create spectacular fire?  Maybe a few times??  (Unless you’re in a war torn country in which case, you’d still probably choose to duck and take cover). 

 If Wolverine can walk away unconcerned about his beautifully permed & conditioned hair catching on fire, then you can walk away from someone who is not reciprocating your efforts….

Remember that  there are cool guy AREAS you have to walk to…

Enjoy

Cameron

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 I started the sports theme so here is another addition to the series.  

 OK, the time has come for this!  It’s arrival is looooong overdue.  I know quite a few of the readers live Internationally and may not be familiar with the game of Baseball.  Nevertheless, even if you’ve seen one game in your entire life, you know that grown women can conceive babies, endure pregnancy, and give birth between pitches of a baseball game.  It’s one of the biggest reasons I no longer keep up with baseball too much. 

 This past season, both local Los Angeles teams (Dodgers/Angels) made it to the playoffs and it sparked my interest to watch the Baseball playoffs for a bit.  Even then, I could not endure an entire game.  I had to start watching after the 3^rd or 4^th Inning. 

 Look, NBA Basketball realized the need to speed things up long ago.  They devised a shot clock.  Simply put: You have 24 seconds to shoot the basketball, and on top of that, the ball MUST hit the rim or you lose possession.  With the emergence of today’s lazy players and slow-down, walk the ball as though you’re at a BBQ in the park style of coaching, I think the shot-clock ought to be reduced to 20 seconds or less, but that’s fodder for another post.

 American Football has a 25 second clock or you get a 5 yard penalty.  Normal football (AKA Soccer) has a 90 minute time limit.  It would have a possession clock except they change possessions in soccer every 3 to 5 seconds anyway. 

 Let’s get back to baseball though.  3 Balls, 2 strikes is what you’re allowed along with unlimited foul balls.  Those are the rules and everyone is clear on that.  It’s also a given that there is no time limit in Baseball.  In fact, it is the only major sport where no one is keeping track of time.   Football (American football as well as what we refer to as Soccer), Basketball, Hockey, Boxing, MMA, all have time limits. 

Yes, Baseball forgets time, but time does not forget you.  While you’re wasting away in front of TV, you’re still aging, and there really is no sense in prolonging what is an already lengthy game.  Games are going 4 to 4.5 hours!  This is your life that baseball is wasting away….

 So all of that considered?   How does the Pitch-Clock work?

 Is it really necessary to linger between pitches?  A pitcher throw the first pitch towards home plate.  Ball 1 or Strike 1, it does not matter.  The pitch clocks has started.  He has 30 seconds to throw the next pitch.  Otherwise, it is an automatic BALL!  That’s it.

 If a batter asks for time, it resets the pitch clock.  That really isn’t an issue since batters rarely ask for time. Even then, batters must have a good reason to step outside the plate.  You’re getting paid 5 million dollars a year to play ball, not to stand around like a jerkoff and loiter. 

 Only issue that could come up is throwing towards 1^st base to keep runner on base. 

Would the pitch clock reset every single time he throws to 1^st?  My suggestion is no.  It’d reset to 20.  The Pitch-clock operator resets back to 20 after the first baseman throws the ball to the pitcher.

 The benefits of this?  Games are a little quicker, more action for the fans and it’d bring in more fans to Major League Baseball.  Would it tire pitchers out quickly?  No?  30 seconds is more than enough time and let’s face it, today’s pitchers pitch about 6 innings before they hit the showers. 

 In decades past, starting baseball pitchers would attempt to have complete games or pitch 8 innings.  Now, they pitch 6 Innings.  7^th inning goes to the “Mid-Reliever” and the “Set-up Guy” comes in the 8^th.  Finally, we see “The Closer” in the 9^th.  And yet, with such little workload, they still want to stand around and loiter.

 With the utilization of so many pitchers and so many pitching changes, often during innings, a pitch clock is sorely needed.  The game of baseball is not timed and it never will be.  Baseball purist will say that’s the beauty of baseball.  While I would not use the adjective “Beautiful” to describe that, I understand the point. 

 Baseball purist will also argue against the Pitch-Clock in anger and violence.  Major League Baseball will be hesitant to introduce such a change unless it affects their pocket books.  If there could increased revenue by bringing a new fan base, then baseball will suddenly show a spark of interest. 

See the photo below? 

After a 5 Hour Baseball game

It’s the Jonestown massacre, where the world witnessed a mass suicide.  While it is well known that this was a mass suicide, what is not well known is the cause of it.

 Yes, you read it here first:  Slow fucking Baseball game and too much time in between pitches caused these poor bastards to collectively kill themselves.  Let’s prevent more massacres.  Let’s bring on the Pitch Clock.

Thanks,
Cameron

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Ps.  Happy Canada Day!

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