Further Thoughts Following the All Star Game

I was most impressed with Chris Davis of the Orioles the way he handled the home run derby and batted during the All Star game.  I remember well when he was with Texas a home run he hit in an Arizona spring training  game that was crushed over the center field wall . . .  TV didn't show it but the internet has the teen age kid running on the field at the All Star game.  The Mets ground crew really nailed him with a beautiful tackle.  Now the idiot faces one year in jail  and $6,000 fine.  If it happened in SF the judge would probably would leave him off easy since his lawyer would tell the judge the poor kid  thinks he has four fathers and five mothers. . . Thanks to Bud Selig baseball  instant replay is a joke and everybody knows it.  Umpires running under the stands to view a hit to see if it is a home run or not with the score already 10-0.  Baseball games are not won or lost by a missed play at first or second or a home run call.  Most games are decided by the home plate umpire on the two strike pitch.  The batter hands are tied when the ump call a ball low an outside strike two and it happens in many games. . .  ESPN EPSY Awards were given out this week in sports answer to being just as phoney as everyone else.  The best team was the Miami Heat.  Are you kidding me,!  The Miami Heat was a a team with one player a guy named James that won the NBA title for them.  The San Francisco Giants should have been the award winner  of the year because they didn't have the best players but showed tremendous spirit and desire a mark of a great team.  Colin Kaepernick also won an ESPY.  You think the 49ers won the Super Bowl instead of Kaepernick loosing it!  Now they need to get him a new helmet two sizes larger so it will fit. . . . Just when I thought ESPN could not sink any lower they hire back Keith Olbermann  an Ivy League graduate  that lets everybody know he is smarter then everyone else.  Too bad he sounds like an idiot and that's why he has been fired so many times. A lesson for parent's  if you wish your children to grow up and learn to get fired send them to an Ivy League school  Teaching attitude is not their strong point.  That's why most of their graduates end up working for the US Government a noble organization that very few trusts. Today's news is a perfect example.  Remember during the Obama Care discussions it was said by the President and the head of HHS plus others  that everyone could keep their health insurance and doctor.  Now HHS is saying maybe one can keep their doctor and insurance.. . Just returned from viewing the traveling Vietnam War Memorial which is in Irvine this week.  That war is another prime example of how not to trust the US Government that many learned the hard way.

Homer Sweeney