ThreeStrikesandOut

Guys and gals, I’m sick of sports this week.  I’m sick of the cheating, the lying and the scandals.  So I’m ending the week with this.  Andrew Lawson, a kid with Down’s Syndrome scored a basket when he was subbed into the game.  According to The Boston Globe:

Sixty-two seconds of playing time might not seem like much, but for Andrew, it was just enough. He had a layup and sprinted toward the other end of the court slapping hands along the way with a gaping smile as Norwell defeated Hanover, 68-51.

Recently, Andrew started his first varsity basketball game, when Norwell took on East Bridgewater. He scored 11 points in the three minutes that was unofficially “Andrew’s quarter.”

This is what sports are supposed to be about, inclusion and opportunity.  It’s supposed to be about good stories; not steroids, not HGH, and not videotaping.  Not about fans shouting racist chants, and not about referees betting on games.

Sorry for the soapbox, but that’s the way the last week has been. 

Here’s a video the Globe posted from a game earlier in the year where Andrew scored 11 points. 

Two Montreal Canadien players were arrested for…Purse-Snatching?  According to ESPN:

Defenseman Ryan O’Byrne, 23, has been accused of stealing a woman’s purse, and 29-year-old right wing Tom Kostopoulos has been charged with resisting an officer, a Tampa police report says.

One thing about it.  You may hear of NBA players shooting guns, you may have football players wrecking their cars and driving away, you may even have baseball players shooting themselves so full of steroids that they resemble Chinese poultry; but you NEVER have to worry about them stealing your purse.  Why?  Because they are in sports that people actually watch and because of that they get paid.  And most of them know what to do with the money (not talking about you Spree, and stop begging those folks for change).  Hell, I’d let Mike Vick watch my wallet.  I just wouldn’t let him walk my dog. 

No word on whether or not hockey sticks were involved and there is no truth to the rumors that the incident occurred during a power play.

From the world of the whacky and sociopathic; apparently some guy got caught trying to take some target practice at the Super Bowl.  According to ESPN.com:

A restaurateur angry at being denied a liquor license threatened to shoot people at the Super Bowl and drove to within sight of the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition before changing his mind, federal authorities said.

Kurt William Havelock said in a manifesto mailed Sunday to media outlets that he would “shed the blood of the innocent,” according to court documents.

In the eight-page manifesto, Havelock said that the original site of the planned massacre was Phoenix’s Desert Ridge Marketplace near Scottsdale, but that “scum and villainy” are in Scottsdale and that instead he would “shed the blood of the innocent.”

Blood of the innocent my ass.  Did he forget that the Patriots were playing?  Did he not know that Jeremy Shockey was in a luxury booth downing cold beers one right after another?  And that Brady’s little Jezebel was there cheering Satan on?  Blood of the innocent?  I’ve seen Vegas whorehouses with more innocent souls than the Super Bowl had.

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According to FoxSports:

A sickening video of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and legendary Hall of Famer Juan Marichal laughing at a gruesome cockfight in the Dominican Republic was posted — and then quickly taken off — YouTube.

The event shown in the video takes place in the Coliseo de Gallos — Rooster Coliseum — in Santo Domingo, the country’s biggest cockfighting venue.

Now first off if the Youtube video resurfaces you will not find it here.  I’m a heartless bastard, but I’ve seen a cockfight before (insert joke here) as a kid and it’s a brutal piece of business.

But, for anybody that wants to compare this to Mike Vick I have two things for you:

1. I don’t believe that cockfighting is illegal in the Dominican.
2. We don’t dip dogs in honey mustard sauce.

 How any athlete could be dumb enough to get caught in any of this stuff after what happened to Vick is beyond me.  But you know now that the next time that Pedro pitches somewhere besides New York there will definitley be a run on rubber chickens.

I said that I wouldn’t update about Michael Wilbon’s condition anymore, but honestly his column today in the Washington Post should be read by everyone.  It’s just a very frank look at what it’s like to face a heart attack and how it changes your immediate outlook on life.  Click here to read it.  Nowwwww I’m done with the Wilbon posts.  Tune in tomorrow for more of the negativity that you love and need.  Masochist.