Labor disputes in sports

[Fat Man]

Well, I for one would be delighted if all the football, basketball, hockey, and baseball players went on strike, and it would drag on and on and on for years!

Ah, just think or it! Turning on Ye Olde Boob Tube and seeing absolutely NO SPORTS!

But that is a most unlikely scenario.

As usual, we will give into the demands of these diaper-butt cry-babies and give them everything they want.

In the meantime, teachers and firemen, and people working in all the more important jobs and services, the employees will lose health care benefits, have their wadges cut, be subject to frequent lay-offs and lose their rights to collective bargaining, and our Republican (Retardican) politicians will have organized rape squads and death squads sent out to keep the protesters in line.

Of course, after all the schools and libraries have been shut down, and everybody who is not in the sports professions have lost their jobs, then everybody will unemployed, and homeless.

Then we won't have TVs to watch sports anymore.

Then what???

Oh! I know!

The Retardicans will institute mandatory attendance in the sports arenas and we will be given a cup of water and a stale hot-dog to keep us barely alive, and when the game is over, we'll be allowed to sleep on the bleachers until the next game when we'll be given another cup of water and another stale hot-dog.

That will take care of the homeless problem.

We'll just live in the sports arenas, and live on small rations, and watch the games being played by multimillionaire drooling morons with single digit IQs chasing balls.

Ah! That's the life!

It doesn't get better than that!

Oh gee! Am I being too cynical again???

[Fat Man]

I don't give a flying fuck!!!

What part of "I don't give a flying fuck!" do you not understand???

You know! I don't give a flying fuck!

Oh! But when football players and basketball players strike for higher pay, we give into the cry babies! Yeah, like 5 million dollars per year is not enough just for chasing balls, so let's give them 10 million per year instead.

Cheers.

Cheers?

Oh! You would love that!

YOU MUCKING FORON!!!

[ChrisOH]

But never fear, sport fans -- the Lingerie Football League is ready to step in should the NFL shut down. No, I'm not making this up....

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/178177 ... RONTPAGE|t

How did I become so privileged to live in a city with Lingerie League team?

Well gee, it's great for you, but what good is it going to do me?

Actually, I thought the whole Lingerie League thing was a joke until I read the article in full. I looked it up on Wikipedia afterward, and they had a section about the "rule differences" between it and regular football. I just thought, I bet the guys who care about the "rules" are the same guys who read Playboy for the articles!

In all honesty, I'd probably get bored with it once the novelty wore off, even if I watched it (which I don't plan to!)

Of course...there will still be college football, I think.

Yeah...I wouldn't get too high hopes for any sports-free seasons of the year...

[ChrisOH]

The Retardicans will institute mandatory attendance in the sports arenas and we will be given a cup of water and a stale hot-dog to keep us barely alive, and when the game is over, we'll be allowed to sleep on the bleachers until the next game when we'll be given another cup of water and another stale hot-dog.

Yeah, and they can squirt some ketchup on the hot dog and tell us we're getting a vegetable, just like they wanted to do with school lunches!

[Fat Man]

The Retardicans will institute mandatory attendance in the sports arenas and we will be given a cup of water and a stale hot-dog to keep us barely alive, and when the game is over, we'll be allowed to sleep on the bleachers until the next game when we'll be given another cup of water and another stale hot-dog.

Yeah, and they can squirt some ketchup on the hot dog and tell us we're getting a vegetable, just like they wanted to do with school lunches!

Yes, I remember back in the 1980s when good ol' Ronald Bedtime-For-Bonzo Reagan was president.

They were cutting the budget for school lunches and they classified ketchup as a vegetable.

Ketchup, as we all know is made from tomatoes but a tomato is actually a fruit, a large berry, and not a vegetable.

So, I'm surprised that in our schools that they didn't just put a dab of ketchup on a plate and call it dessert.

Oh, by the way, a banana is not a fruit. It's actually an herb.

[Brigan]

Oh, by the way, a banana is not a fruit. It's actually an herb.

It's a Fruit, The plant itself it's an herb.

Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red.

[Earl]

Orange you glad to see us, Brigan?

But the NFL players aren't asking for more money.

You know! I don't give a flying fuck!

I hope there is never another football season or basketball season in the USA ever again for the rest of my life.

And beyond!!!

I was just trying to be informative, there's no reason to be so rude about it.

What part of "I don't give a flying fuck!" do you not understand???

Aw, come on, guys. Hey, Fat Man ... Safety ... come over here. Let's get together and have a great big HUG. (Careful, Fat Man. Don't crush him.)

Just click on the link below and be happy! I hope you like it! *giggle*

(La-de-da, my work is done. Toodle-oo! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvlKp-76io

[Brigan]

Orange you glad to see us, Brigan?

huh?

also did you delete your previous post?

[Earl]

Orange you glad to see us, Brigan?

huh?

I substituted the word "orange" for "aren't" so I could make a very bad pun. You say that you're Portuguese. Since English is not your native tongue, you're possibly not familiar with this word substitution pun, which (admittedly) has now become quite trite. So, I have embarrassed myself.

also did you delete your previous post?

Yes, I did. The reason why is that the link to the You Tube video in my previous post was inoperative. (I was disappointed when Fat Man informed me via post in this thread that it was inoperative because the "techno" version of this song is even more irritating than the original.) So, I substituted the link to the "techno" version of that song in my previous post with a link to a singing video. Then I copied and pasted the text of that edited post to the more recent post that I had addressed to you. Then I went back and deleted the edited original, as well as the aforementioned post submitted by Fat Man. The reason why I did this was so that both Safety and Fat Man would stand a greater chance of reading the revised text.

[ChrisOH]

As usual, we will give into the demands of these diaper-butt cry-babies and give them everything they want.

I love that term -- "diaper-butt cry-babies." I definitely will remember that to keep things in perspective should I ever face temptation to get back into pro sports-watching!

In the meantime, teachers and firemen, and people working in all the more important jobs and services, the employees will lose health care benefits, have their wadges cut, be subject to frequent lay-offs and lose their rights to collective bargaining, and our Republican (Retardican) politicians will have organized rape squads and death squads sent out to keep the protesters in line.

The very fact that highly-paid and privileged athletes and sports owners would get involved in a "labor dispute" during a time when our country is struggling to recover from a major recession and unemployment is still about double the rate of a "healthy" economy, serves only the show their arrogance, and how little they care about the communities they supposedly play for.

One could only hope that sports fans will realize this and drop their allegiance to pro sports like a hot potato, especially if there are any strikes or lockouts. But -- I have a feeling they won't, and once the "dispute" is settled, they'll be back attending games, buying and wearing sports merchandise and apparel, blaring the games from their TV sets, and pretending like nothing ever happened

[i_like_1981]

The very fact that highly-paid and privileged athletes and sports owners would get involved in a "labor dispute" during a time when our country is struggling to recover from a major recession and unemployment is still about double the rate of a "healthy" economy, serves only the show their arrogance, and how little they care about the communities they supposedly play for.

Yeah, I know, it's absolutely obscene. I'm sure I mentioned this a few times already on this board: Wayne Rooney, one of the "top" English soccer players, was practically blackmailing Man United last year when he was considering the idea of leaving and only decided to stay with them when they offered him £200,000 a week. £200,000 A WEEK! I'd like to make that much in five years, and I'd do it for doing more than just kicking a ball around every now and again, I'll tell you! These footballers really do consider themselves above the plights of ordinary people. What for? These days it's not about the love of the game, is it, just the money they stand to get out of it! I'm quite proud to be a hater of modern sports.

Best regards,
i_like_1981

[greencom]

What is really disgusting is that the idiotic sports fans will still pay good money to watch them.

[ChrisOH]

NFL player says NFL like "modern slavery":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/1 ... 36090.html

Mr. Peterson, I found after doing a little digging, is schedule to receive $10.72 million in salary in 2011.

I'll take his kind of "slavery" any day!

Fat Man, what was it you said about "diaper-butt cry-babies"? I think we have one here...






Glad to help you out, Mr. Peterson!

[i_like_1981]

I think it is an absolute farce how someone on a $10 million a year salary can call anything he does to earn that money "slavery". Absolutely fucking pathetic, to quote my good old friend Cycloptichorn. I don't care how hard these players train. I don't care how popular they are or who good they are at what they do. I can't stand seeing them getting paid as much as they do and now I'm hearing one of them complaining about how the work is like "slavery", it's enough to send me through the bloody roof! This guy wouldn't last a day doing an honest day's work for the usual citizen's pay. How on earth can he compare his career in any way whatsoever to "slavery"? Seems to me he is downplaying the true meanings of that term and that's something he should feel ashamed of.

Best regards,
i_like_1981

[ChrisOH]

I think it is an absolute farce how someone on a $10 million a year salary can call anything he does to earn that money "slavery". Absolutely fucking pathetic, to quote my good old friend Cycloptichorn. I don't care how hard these players train. I don't care how popular they are or who good they are at what they do. I can't stand seeing them getting paid as much as they do and now I'm hearing one of them complaining about how the work is like "slavery", it's enough to send me through the bloody roof! This guy wouldn't last a day doing an honest day's work for the usual citizen's pay. How on earth can he compare his career in any way whatsoever to "slavery"? Seems to me he is downplaying the true meanings of that term and that's something he should feel ashamed of.

Hello 1981!

How true...the guy could quit football today, never work another day in his life, and still be better-off than 99.9 percent of the world. Some "slavery" -- I didn't read anything about a gun being held to his head forcing him to play football if he thinks his situation is so bad!

I just went back to the original article and read some of the user comments -- many of the commenters agreed with us. I wonder how many of those were sports fans who were beginning to "see the light" about this kind of stupidity -- we can only hope, right?