Comments on: Relationships in Sports

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:00:27 +0000

Kerstin – You just provided the single best example of how non-users of Twitter misunderstand it.

Of the 58 people I currently follow, I know less than five. It’s not facebook, it’s not a social networking site. If used correctly, you never read “heading to the laundromat”. It just doesn’t happen.

You follow things, places, media outlets that interest you, and it helps you find the most relevant information (to you) on the ‘net. So when TIME magazine has a new column out (more than everyday), they link to it with a description. If I want to read it, I do. Same with the dozen NHL writers I follow. Also, I follow a few comedians cause their tweets are hilarious. There are some people, like Bill Simmons (and incidentally, myself), that tweet some personal stuff, but that’s for people selling themselves as media members. I love when he tweets his thoughts on the basketball game he’s at. So yeah! That’s how Twitter ACTUALLY works.

By: Kerstin from Germany

Kerstin from Germany — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:54:52 +0000

@Jbrown: Nice comment. But what comes when you put it to the next step?
Let’s say ok, the poor celebrities have no other choice than Sex, Drugs & RocknRoll (or Hip Hop or whatever..).
Why do they marry at all when it is so clear that they will cheat, divorce and pay huge amount of $$$ for it?
Another point:
For me all celebreties of whatever genre, sports etc. have a responsibility of being a role model for whoknowswhichamountof “normal” people.
Behaviours like consumption of drugs, cheating, violence against wife etc. committed by a celebrety is (FOR ME) always a belittlement as they ALWAYS have good reason why they behave like they behave and countless number of people adopt the thinking “when it is ok for him/her to act so, then it is for me either”…
Additional other point:
The unemployment rates would raise significantly if all the “reporters”, paparazzi & Co. could not write about “scandals” like these and all celebrities would act nicely.

JtBourne: People who write every breath they take (incl. telling the world what they actually do in the bathroom………….and no I’m not talking about the kitten-story………………..) deserve no better wordings than TWEET, TWEEPLE etc.
This is really the abyss(?) of web2.0…
Would love to see one day, when all twitter-users would stand in the streets and shout out all the useless statements to the world they TWEED. *preparingthecameratoputitonyoutube*haha*

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:39:49 +0000

JBrown – I own Delirious and Raw, loved the comment.

By: Pete L

Pete L — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:49:57 +0000

Typical Jet fan trying to attribute the best line of the NFL piece to Kris Jenkins. That nugget was uttered by Michael Strahan, fprmerly of Big Blue. Wait, didn’t Strahan’s wife divorce him for cheating on her. Oh well, he could still get after the QB. Probably should’ve used the word story instead of piece, now that I think about it.

Jenkins did have the most intelligent view of the problem, “Money is the root of all evil.” Those women wouldn’t be giving most of the those guys the time of day if they didn’t have big, fat wallets.

By: Jbrown

Jbrown — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:58:30 +0000

I think it’s sort of funny that people are shocked at all by any successful man in the public eye being unfaithful. To quote Eddie Murphy:

“And this is the business to be in if you want some pussy. That’s why I got in show business, for pussy. I figured, if Jimmy Walker can fuck, I’m fucking everybody. And it’s like that too. When you do TV-shows, women would be throwing pussy at me on the street like frisbee.”

Oh, by the way there’s some bad language that quote so watch out kids.

Murphy might be talking about show business, but it applies to sports, music, movies, politics …televangelists. If you’re rich and famous, you’re gonna have more opportunities than the average male. And what he said doesn’t change if you’re married.
I totally don’t condone cheating, but COME. ON. You’re on the road constantly, everywhere you go the hottest girls in the world are throwing themselves at you, and everyone else is doing it! What are you, a saint? Not to mention you’re constantly told how awesome you are, and there’s a culture where this is basically expected, so inhibitions are lowered further still.
Once you’ve broken the ice, it gets easier every time. Next thing you know you’re a billionaire paying for houses for your mistresses while your wife beats the shit out of you with a golf club. My only surprise with Tiger is that he didn’t get caught sooner.

By: Donald Dunlop

Donald Dunlop — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:01:19 +0000

Sweet … a Kurt Warner bash. I’m now officially having a “Highlander – We are brotherssss!” moment.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:01:41 +0000

That’s an interesting comment about turning their wives into mothers (even their own) and sexualizing other women. Maybe there is more instinct going on there than people would care to admit? Maybe these wealthy athletes are doing something that most if not all men unconciously think about or do to a smaller extent, but the athletes have the money/testicles/opportunity to actually indulge the sentiment?

Some poll just found that 42% of people till look favourably on Tiger. And apparently Clinton’s big error wasn’t cheating on Hilary, it was having the audacity to look into the camera and flat-out lie about it. You can cheat on your silly wives, boys, but don’t you ever, ever lie to us.

On an irresistible sidenote, this whole topic reveals some undertones in the homosexual rights “debate”, as gay/lesbian marriage or adoption is constantly accused of being harmfully unconventional, while successful men cheating on their wives is evidently nothing to get alarmed about unless they start lieing to people at work too, or being overly open about their affairs.

By: Char

Char — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:40:23 +0000

Marrying your high school sweetheart is seldom a good idea, and that goes triple for pro athletes. Play, run around, chase multiple women (or whatever), grow up, and THEN get married. What’s the rush?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:08:11 +0000

One thing I would add in the whole infidelity discussion are the pro athletes who think they walk on water and they are better than everybody else. When kids who have an extraordinary talent in a popular sport are spotted early, they are spoiled and in some cases idolized for their talent in that sport from a very early age….and unless they have strong parents who keep the ego in check and try to maintain right life perspective for their child, isn’t it inevitable that some athletes will become arrogant and do things like run around sleeping with any willing woman or shooting people in night clubs?

I am not saying that all pro athletes are like this….I’m just saying that maybe some of the womanizers are the arrogant ones who should have been brought up better as kids…..

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:48:13 +0000

It’s worse where the kids are younger, naturally. So college and junior are a natural disaster, the ECHL is a trainwreck, the AHL is car accident and the NHL is two bikes in a head-on collision. So, it sucks everywhere, but maturity helps. (cheating isn’t confined to sports, of course. It’s a Yukon-into-a-pedestrian everywhere)