Joe T.
Kick it!
Interesting question I heard over the weekend; “Why was it okay for Katie Couric to ask Manti Teo if he was gay in front of millions of people, but not for NFL teams to ask the same in private meetings?”
Wow, here come the Lakers…Not really, I don’t know, not sure…and I just don’t care.
Oh, I’ve always been a Yasiel Puig fan…
One Note to the Dodgers: I’ve seen four spring training games already…that’s four more than I saw all last season after July 31st…I am perfectly satisfied in the Brian Barden department…Can you please release this guy and let me get a glimpse of someone else?
P.S. Release Juan Uribe and lets be done with it…
Last Note Dodgers: My daughter came into the room the other day and saw a lefthander pitching…when I told her it wasn’t Clayton Kershaw she left the room no longer interested.
Really? Dallas McPherson?
Go Pablo!
Keith Olbermann wants to return to ESPN…Not a fan of ESPN but does anyone willingly go to the dentist and tell the receptionist; “Hi, can you help me? I feel like having a root canal procedure done without a pain-killer.”
There was a time when Olbermann was cool…Then again Wallabies were considered cool for a time…
Note to Baseball/Softball Coaches: Get your rosters up on MaxPreps.
Last Olbermann: I’d put up with three hours of old Keith before I watch a minute of “The Masters”…In fact I’d rather go to the DMV than be forced to watch golf on TV.
I’d be more interested if it was Willie Crawford and not Carl Crawford making the news today…
Willie Crawford homered in the first Dodger game I attended on August 4,1975…So did Davey Lopes and Bill Buckner…
The Baltimore Ravens gave Joe Flacco a lot of money, you can understand. The last time a quarterback led them to a Super Bowl win they didn’t bring him back.
When Elvis Grbac threw his last pass for the Ravens in 2001 fans were more than thrilled to hear; “Elvis has left the building!”
Interesting a recent article on Yahoo said that both Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow struggled at quarterback for the New York Jets last season. Tebow threw eight passes and completed six in 2012. I don’t call that struggling, I call that a decision to not play a playoff winning quarterback from the season before.
Last Add Gays in Football: They should be able to play, absolutely…But the hang up for the teams employing them or playing with them at any level comes in the locker room. At Mid Valley Sports we have guys of all different stripes, and in the past gals too, but its worked…If we had to take our clothes off in front of each other that would be a different story.
Stats show that 1,800 girls played high school football in America last season, I don’t know for sure but I’m going to guess that all of them dressed, showered, and changed in a different locker room.
Why? Because it wouldn’t be appropriate. I’m not saying any of the guys would attack, molest, or harass a girl in the locker room…but are you telling me they’re not going to be checking her out as she changes and/or goes to the showers? If we all have normal instincts, normal reactions, and everybody is just the same why should it be any different?
If my 15 year old daughter was a kicker and had to share a locker room with a 6-5 275 pound tackle checking her out s a result of normal instinct then there will be a problem… and she would feel very uncomfortable. If my 15 year old son had the same offensive linemen checking him out it would be the same.
It doesn’t make you or someone managing this new dynamic a homophobe to ask these questions. When you sexualize the locker room you have potential for big problems and just saying its 2013 and we should all be beyond this is ridiculous. (See Jay Mohr, Steve Hartman, and nearly all of the sports talk world.)
I have no problems with your opinions share them, you don’t have to agree with me…but spare me/us and each other… the “you’re a homophobe” charge…its a waste of time.
The Dude abides…
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Ezekiel 37: 1-14
Contact Joe at joe@midvalleysports.com
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