Posted on 12/09/2004 8:54:52 AM PST by AlwaysLurking
High Time for Heroes
Celebrating good guys in sports.
Brawls, Steroids, Lockouts ... sniff, sigh, sob! BobLee has been in a funk. It seems that sports (as a mirror of society) gets into these gloomy gulches where all we read about are “bad guys being bad guys” … I understand that no one cares how many planes did NOT crash yesterday, but I went looking for some old fashioned “sports heroes” to cheer for… I found some!
An interesting reoccurring theme from you readers … you have marginal to no interest in the NBA. Yes, you read the headlines and know the latest goings-on but you no longer invest genuine interest in professional basketball. OK, the majority of us are not located in NBA cities so we are not subject to the daily promotion by the local team, but many of you have been successfully inoculated against giving a damn about “the league”.
A discussion of that phenomenon is probably several columns by itself. You do not identify with the players AT ALL and you are turned off by their asocial behavior based on our general definition of that term. I can appreciate that as my only interest is a general awareness of the sport which I can get from SportCenter. Believe it or not I did find one likely prospect for a hero to follow …
www.swaggersays.com
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We HATE Red Sox around here! Surely he could find a Cardinal to put in here someplace!
Johnny Damon dumped wife number one for a bimbo and that puts him pretty low on my list.
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