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Pro Baseball is a JOKE!A-Rod, Manny, McQuire, Sosa and all of them are juiced up. Why would anyone be surprised if they hit homers??? The league looks the other way. Maybe baseball was great at one time long ago, but now...I would hope our kids find true heroes, not these guys..
Quote from: geowak on 9 May 2009, 12:18 amPro Baseball is a JOKE!A-Rod, Manny, McQuire, Sosa and all of them are juiced up. Why would anyone be surprised if they hit homers??? The league looks the other way. Maybe baseball was great at one time long ago, but now...I would hope our kids find true heroes, not these guys..I sadly agree. The owners signed a pact with the devil back in the '90s when they chose not to clean up the game. It has been a terrible influence on our youth and a joke for spectators ever since.
Quote from: S Clark on 9 May 2009, 02:31 amQuote from: geowak on 9 May 2009, 12:18 amPro Baseball is a JOKE!A-Rod, Manny, McQuire, Sosa and all of them are juiced up. Why would anyone be surprised if they hit homers??? The league looks the other way. Maybe baseball was great at one time long ago, but now...I would hope our kids find true heroes, not these guys..I sadly agree. The owners signed a pact with the devil back in the '90s when they chose not to clean up the game. It has been a terrible influence on our youth and a joke for spectators ever since.If your kids are looking at baseball players (or any sports icon) as "hero's", then you are a sorry excuse for a parent.
Parents and school, those are the 2 GIGANTIC influences on kids, the rest is just small potatoes.
Quote from: Tyson on 9 May 2009, 04:35 amParents and school, those are the 2 GIGANTIC influences on kids, the rest is just small potatoes.You might say it's small potatoes, but I think it's a societal shift that hasn't been corrected. I'd love to know what sociologists think about this: Fathers and sons of all income levels, no matter where they lived, used to be able to sit down after work and on the weekends watch sports without all of today's drama. They could root for the home team without the mega-agents, contracts, steroids, college kids taking money, drug use, etc. For a large segment of society, a suitable replacement for watching sports hasn't been found. It would be great if parents did lots of other things with their kids, but I think a lot of today's fathers never learned to bond with their dads in a way other than watching sports together.
I agree with your facts, but I disagree with your conclusions. I think the complexity of modern sports lends itself quite well to the banishment of hero-worship of sports icons. A good thing, in my opinion. ...Athletes have always been poor role models, it's just more obvious now.