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the_archfiendGranted, he's innocent until proven guilty, but...
I'm not going to be one of the idiots out there defending what Patrick Kane and his equally vapid cousin allegedly did to Buffalo cabbie Jan Radecki, regardless of Radecki's priors concerning DUIs and driving with an invalid license. Yeah, Radecki may have done just that. So what? Does that somehow justify the Kane Kousins pounding the crap out of him over 20 cents?
Boy, if anyone was looking for confirmation that pro athletes are arrogant douchebags with the capacity for reflection or self-control of a lamprey, this is it. And I'm a hockey fan, so anyone who thinks that I have a beef with the sport instead of Kane's off-rink behavior is wrong. Period.
Oh, but it gets better.
I admit the following was inspired by an on-air rant by legendary (?) local sports radio curmudeon Terry Boers, but get a load of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Slezak on Kane now and how she reacted to a certain music video Chicago Bears tight end Greg Olsen made in 2005 while at the U. of Miami back when he was drafted in 2007.
The moral of the story? Apparently, making a nasty rap recording is worse than mugging a cabbie or engaging in any number of real felonies I can think of. In Slezak's world, saying naughty things is far, far worse than actually engaging in a criminal act. I can almost hear Mrs. Lovejoy from The Simpsons in the background screaming "but what about the chiiiiiildren?"
The real lesson of the story? Slezak is either very bad at what she does or has the memory span of a goldfish concerning her own columns.
Your choice.
(UPDATE: Oh, wait! Here's more proof of Slezak at her worst; apparently, even Michael Vick ends up being a better person than Greg Olsen in her book. My thanks to Fire Jay Mariotti for pointing out the column and providing further commentary.)
I'm not going to be one of the idiots out there defending what Patrick Kane and his equally vapid cousin allegedly did to Buffalo cabbie Jan Radecki, regardless of Radecki's priors concerning DUIs and driving with an invalid license. Yeah, Radecki may have done just that. So what? Does that somehow justify the Kane Kousins pounding the crap out of him over 20 cents?
Boy, if anyone was looking for confirmation that pro athletes are arrogant douchebags with the capacity for reflection or self-control of a lamprey, this is it. And I'm a hockey fan, so anyone who thinks that I have a beef with the sport instead of Kane's off-rink behavior is wrong. Period.
Oh, but it gets better.
I admit the following was inspired by an on-air rant by legendary (?) local sports radio curmudeon Terry Boers, but get a load of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Slezak on Kane now and how she reacted to a certain music video Chicago Bears tight end Greg Olsen made in 2005 while at the U. of Miami back when he was drafted in 2007.
The moral of the story? Apparently, making a nasty rap recording is worse than mugging a cabbie or engaging in any number of real felonies I can think of. In Slezak's world, saying naughty things is far, far worse than actually engaging in a criminal act. I can almost hear Mrs. Lovejoy from The Simpsons in the background screaming "but what about the chiiiiiildren?"
The real lesson of the story? Slezak is either very bad at what she does or has the memory span of a goldfish concerning her own columns.
Your choice.
(UPDATE: Oh, wait! Here's more proof of Slezak at her worst; apparently, even Michael Vick ends up being a better person than Greg Olsen in her book. My thanks to Fire Jay Mariotti for pointing out the column and providing further commentary.)
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Date: 2009-08-13 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-13 11:35 pm (UTC)Given that we've had an assortment of just plain lousy sports columnists in both local papers over the years (with the truly hideous Jay Mariotti rumored to be resurfacing via the Trib come September 1st), I've gotta wonder if some of them aren't being dumped on us by east or west coast papers after they fail some sort of Stupidometer test or are seen as being too artificial controversy-happy for even New York or LA.