Posted on 09/09/2009 9:42:06 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
It doesn't sound as if Jaycee Dugard got to see a sports page.
Box scores were not available to her from June 10, 1991 until Aug. 31 of this year.
She never saw a highlight. Never got to the ballpark for Beach Towel Night. Probably hasn't high-fived in a while.
She was not allowed to spike a volleyball. Or pitch a softball. Or smack a forehand down the line. Or run in a 5-footer for double bogey.
Now, that's deprivation.
Can you imagine? Dugard was 11 when she was kidnapped and stashed in Phillip Garrido's backyard. She was 29 when she escaped. Penitentiary inmates at least get an hour of TV a day. Dugard was cut off from everything but the elements.
How long before she fully digests the world she re-enters? How difficult to adjust to such cataclysmic change?
More than that, who's going to explain the fact that there's a President Obama?
Dugard's stepfather says she's going to need a lot of therapy — you think? — so perhaps she should take a respite before confronting the new realities.
So, Jaycee, whenever you're ready, here's what you've missed:
•Barry Bonds, who was just leading the Pirates to their second NL East title, wound up breaking Henry Aaron's home run record. How did such a skinny guy manage that? We'll deal with that later.
•Well, actually, some baseball players began taking drugs in order to hit more home runs and throw faster fastballs. Football players, who had cornered the market on most of their drugs, began driving drunk, slapping their wives, selling drugs, and killing people. The baseball players caught more grief.
•Michael Jordan did indeed win the big one, and five others.
•Yeah, this golfer really is named Tiger Woods.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
You can read also the author's apology.
Oh my gosh...I’m sure she gives a flying frig about any of this douchebag’s bulletpoints. What a jackass.
I saw this today, via NRO’s The Corner. It is amazingly bad.
I think this commenter sums it up pretty well “This is journalism at its worst. Mark Whicker attempts to make a few witticisms at the expense of a young woman who was kidnapped at age 11, sexually abused, mentally tormented, and held captive for 18 years, and no one on the editorial staff raised an objection?... There are some things that are off limits for jokes - the kidnapping of little girls is one of them.”
That is the thing. I’ve seen columns before that made me ask “where was the editor?” but none more than this.
What the what???
Sick man.
I don't think I can. A poor little girl gets kidnapped and raped and her worse experience is missing some drug addled jocks doing something of no importance?
A@@hole works better.
I don’t know what it is about sportswriters, but they seem to be the worst of the worst. See also: Olbermann.
In some ways that is a really poignant column that really expresses to sports fans how long she was held. In a political sense she was held through the entire Clinton and George W. Bush years.
That last line was what turned poingnant into tasteless or confirmed the tasteless underlying tone in the column. Odd.
Yeah, that Mark really farted out some apology. Good that he (sort of) apologized to his readers, but you'd think he might have apologized to...I don't know...Jaycee! What a jerk.
Hard to believe the owner of this rag is declaring bankruptcy with such fine people as this on the staff...
See also: Mike Lupica.
Lack of gray matter resulting in a lack of intellect.
I just can't resist. Asshole.
Not only that, but he missed the fact that Utah is a better state for football than Michigan or Indiana, or maybe even Oklahoma. I mean, if you’re going to do trash, at least do it well. Now, explain to us all how a Communist named Olbermann spews mouth-foaming hatred nightly on government-funded television... and this is the United States, not East Germany.
Good Lord. Some folks are so out of touch - but then I guess that’s why he ended up as a sports commentator.
Truly one of the dumbest and twisted things I ever read. I feel dumber for having read it. I don’t blame the poster but the writer of this piece is a idiot. The editor should be fired for printing it.
Well, on the positive side, isn’t the OC Register the one that just filed bankruptcy?
BTTT
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