Adrian Peterson: The NFL players association and the owners were not able to come to an agreement on how to split the Billions of dollars of revenue that the NFL produces(they ignored my proposal to donate it to my "Monsivais in need program"). Sounds like a "problem" that to most of us seems like, regardless of the outcome, everyone stands to make a big payday. After one particular day of failed negotiations, Peterson had this to say;
"It's modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money," Peterson continued. "The owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money."
Yo, A.P. are you kidding me? You signed a contract last year to make $17 million dollars a year. The minimum salary for a rookie is $325 thousand dollars a year, and the minimum increases incrementally each year your in the league up to ten years. If your a single person living in the lower 48 states, the poverty line is $10,890! Your salary is a far cry from slavery.......and don't act like you have a "regular job."
Jalen Rose: ESPN has begun the 30 for 30 documentary series, of which I am a fan. This series highlights various sports related events, people, teams, and other related sports stories over the years. Recently released was a 30 for 30 highlighting the much hyped "Fab Five" of Michigan University. The Fab Five was considered to be one of the best recruited college basketball classes ever. This particular episode was partially produced by former Fab Five member, and current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose. In the documentary Jalen expressed some very candid opinions about that time in the college basketball landscape. Included in his remarks were some controversial comments about Duke University and the Black student athletes that attend there, calling them "Uncle Toms". Jalen made the claim that Duke wouldn't recruit a "guy like him." Upon the airing of the documentary Jalen came under intense scrutiny but stood by his comments. He then proceeded to back up his comments by........BEING ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DUI! Big shout-out to you Jalen, use your one call more wisely.
Albert Pujols: Compared to the others I think Albert will get off easy. He is one that you just gotta roll your eyes at. This last off season of baseball, nobody drew more attention to their looming free agency than Albert Pujols. He is looking to sign a deal that would pay him $300 million dollars over the next 10 years and he wasn't budging. Can you blame him? He is arguably the best player in the game over the last few seasons; a solid first baseman and a terror for pitchers when he is at the plate. The negotiations between Pujols and his current team, the St. Louis Cardinals, ended in a stale mate by the time the season started. Through the first 11 games of the season Pujols seems to have stuck his foot, or rather his bat, in his mouth. Pujols is batting a microscopic .150 with 4 RBI's and only 1 home-run. Way to back up your demands $30 million dollar man!
Dave "top dog"
Yo, A.P. are you kidding me? You signed a contract last year to make $17 million dollars a year. The minimum salary for a rookie is $325 thousand dollars a year, and the minimum increases incrementally each year your in the league up to ten years. If your a single person living in the lower 48 states, the poverty line is $10,890! Your salary is a far cry from slavery.......and don't act like you have a "regular job."
Jalen Rose: ESPN has begun the 30 for 30 documentary series, of which I am a fan. This series highlights various sports related events, people, teams, and other related sports stories over the years. Recently released was a 30 for 30 highlighting the much hyped "Fab Five" of Michigan University. The Fab Five was considered to be one of the best recruited college basketball classes ever. This particular episode was partially produced by former Fab Five member, and current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose. In the documentary Jalen expressed some very candid opinions about that time in the college basketball landscape. Included in his remarks were some controversial comments about Duke University and the Black student athletes that attend there, calling them "Uncle Toms". Jalen made the claim that Duke wouldn't recruit a "guy like him." Upon the airing of the documentary Jalen came under intense scrutiny but stood by his comments. He then proceeded to back up his comments by........BEING ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DUI! Big shout-out to you Jalen, use your one call more wisely.
Albert Pujols: Compared to the others I think Albert will get off easy. He is one that you just gotta roll your eyes at. This last off season of baseball, nobody drew more attention to their looming free agency than Albert Pujols. He is looking to sign a deal that would pay him $300 million dollars over the next 10 years and he wasn't budging. Can you blame him? He is arguably the best player in the game over the last few seasons; a solid first baseman and a terror for pitchers when he is at the plate. The negotiations between Pujols and his current team, the St. Louis Cardinals, ended in a stale mate by the time the season started. Through the first 11 games of the season Pujols seems to have stuck his foot, or rather his bat, in his mouth. Pujols is batting a microscopic .150 with 4 RBI's and only 1 home-run. Way to back up your demands $30 million dollar man!
Dave "top dog"
Dave, I would salute your picks for this article, but I feel that you have left out to notable mentions from this past week (maybe due to your personal man crush for these individuals). Kobe Bryant was recently fined $100,000 by the league for his use of a gay slur towards the referee after being given a technical foul during his game last Tuesday. Just as inappropriate as the use of the gay slur was the way Kobe punched the chair (along with teammate) and threw his childish fit when he was pulled from the game, and prior to his "potty mouth" moment. I also liked the part when Steve Kerr, who was an analyst on the TNT crew that night, said "You might wanna take the cameras off of him right now, for the children watching from home." The technical fouls are no surprise, after all Kobe has been ranked in the top 10 for technical fouls in the league over the past 6 years, and actually lead the league in technical fouls in 2007-2008 season (he is currently second in the league this year with 16). I guess Kobe had been able to keep his rants and remarks towards the referees in check over his illustrious technical ridden career, or they had never been caught on camera like this before.
The second possible candidate for this category would be Barry “Home Run King” Bonds who was convicted this week for 1 count of Obstruction of Justice, and narrowly escaped 3 other possible convictions connected to his testimony before congress concerning his use of steroids during his playing career.
Also a quick note on Albert (since he is from the local team for me now), Albert has previously had a slow start to his season, and bounced back by the end of the season. In the 2007 Albert was only batting .158 at this point in the season, and finished the season batting .327. True this season is a little different, being a contract year, but I am not bashing on him yet; however, I do agree that he looks bad with his slow start after the contract issues of the off season.
No Adrian and Jalen I have no excuse for.
Jake
Dave and Jake, good call on the shout outs. I gotta be honest though, I wasn't expecting to see Kobe on the list at all with him being Dave's homeboy. But that was a solid crack there Jake. This was a good list, but there are a couple I think you could add.
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, I can't believe that you left Allen Iverson off the list, I mean DON'T YOU KNOW WHO HE IS?!?!?!?! He has like 10 Lamborghinis!!!! That pop off has to have it's place on your shout of shame.
Dave I can't believe you passed up a chance to cut into your most disliked star Lebron! With the season now at it's end I was expecting a shame shout for the Heat in general, or at least for you to give it up for the drunken tirade of his above the rest of mom.
Beyond the players, the only other shout out worth of your list would be the BCS as a whole. They've been riding high for years, picking and choosing who is worthy enough to compete in their bowl games for a chance to win their national championship. Now there are accusations of corruption in the ranks of the bowl executives.......hmmmmm, you think?
Anyway props on the post, and Jake I am with you on the Albert thing. I think that he is as likely to tank all season as the Boston Red Socks are to finish the season with the sub .200 winning percentage. (although if they did I wouldn't complain)