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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Now I'm sure the biased "national" media can sleep better tonight.
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Professional Sports is not GP. My commentary on stated topic, therefore, does not have to be entirely GP either. Let's get down and dirty.
Want an example of media bias? Some "reporter" with the San Fran Chronicle (pinnacle of journalistic grand jury testimony leaking integrity) selectively chooses to release a report of Paul Byrd having purchased some HGH (back when it wasn't banned by baseball). I wouldn't put it past some Red Sox worshipping buddy buddy writer of theirs in Boston to encourage them to release this "story" conveniently the day before ALCS game 7. And they conveniently try to smear the name of one of the nicest people and best success stories in all the AL playoffs ("Indians Face Game 7, HGH Scandal" ESPN.com professes. Morons).
There are undoubtedly hundreds of athletes spread out across ALL baseball teams who are guilty of using HGH (although again, it wasn't banned until 2005) and more damaging banned substances like steroids. The media controls which names are leaked (or fabricated) purely to affect sporting outcomes, sell papers, and get ratings. I wonder why we haven't heard of any Red Sox or Yankee players named. God knows they are the central repository for over the hill 800-year old players who may think they need a little HGH kick to further their careers. I'd venture to guess this substance problem affects at least one player on every team in baseball (the Mitchell investigation promises to shed a lot of light on that area), yet we selectively hear of only a few being reported.
Oh yes (I'm not making this up) - Be sure not to miss this morning's Outside the Lines story on Paul Byrd's evil ways. How in the heck does E$PN put together a story in less than a day based upon a report that was posted at midnight last night? YOU THINK THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS COMING? It's one big Red Sox Yankees rump-kissing conspiracy.
What a sick, twisted, sports world we live in. If it's that important your beloved Red Sox and Yankees win every championship there is in the universe, well keep throwing money and manipulating media resources to suit your greedy gains, baseball and journalistic integrity be darned.
This is why I do not buy newspapers or believe a word of what I see on TV. It's all a big fixed sham.
BOYCOTT ESPN FOREVER. Read this sarcastic, disrespectful, biased garbage from one of the many supposedly "neutral" columnists on ESPN's website:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playof...jim&id=3072472
What a HACK. It's ok to claim the Indians are playing scared, but try to stick to the facts instead of sticking your tongue out and going nanna nanna boo boo (Noooo time for looooooooosers cuz we are the cham.....wait, that's another thread :-P) to the Indians and their fans. Where's Albert Belle when you need him?
Thank goodness for the (relatively) pure world of FIRST, because the professional sports world is a corrupt, biased farce, where evil empires truly DO exist.
Now back to your regularly scheduled graciously professional programming. I'm done with this thread. Go Indians - you do it the RIGHT way.