while the dolphins swim in the sea

 You're going grey, my baby

Still the war is waging endlessly

Day after day, day after day  ( c. Hynde /pretenders)

i'm growing tired pointing out the hypocrisy of this world....but this one is too rich to ignore.

the Big-10 football conference jumped on the woke wagon and smugly cancelled ALL fall sports until maybe the spring. the threat of Coronavirus and the SAFETY of their Student Bodies was most important. the Pac 10 followed immediately with a hold-my-beer statement of their own.

SEC and ACC did not cancel their fall sports.

Suddenly the big-10 football players started stating that they would NOT play in the spring because it was too close to the NFL draft , and they started asking to be released from their commitments so that they could transfer to a school that WAS playing in the fall. Suddenly a big-10 spring season was starting to resemble a JV game with all the best players and seniors opting out.....certainly ABC/ESPN/FOX  saw diminished ratings and wanted a discount........so the Big-10 began having discussions about a January start......and yesterday they floated a Thanksgiving start..........now this one intrigued me.......because most of the colleges started the fall semester a few weeks early in the hopes of wrapping up and shutting down for the winter at ....THANKSGIVING.............so i'm left to wonder.....will rutgers and the other schools open the dorms for the athletes only ? ( while the rest of the school is on winter break) will the football programs be housed in Hotels for the season ?

lost of questions to be answered......most notably.....what has changed since the big announcement that the season was being pushed to the spring ? did Fauci say it's now safe to go back to school ? did the scientists change their minds ? are all students and ALL sports being reinstated ? 

here is a quote from Barry Alvarez

"It may be a little earlier, but around January," Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, a leading member of the return to play task force, told ESPN earlier this week. "We may try to start earlier. We're talking to all of the TV people, trying to get all of the information and see what fits. We still have to go through our chancellors and presidents to OK it."

not so much as a fake concern about the health of the players and staff and other students.....let's just talk to all of the TV people.

it's not dark yet

 but it's getting there ( Dylan)

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching. My question today is what exactly are these protesting athletes doing with their free time in the off season when nobody is watching ?  I know they attend team sponsored fund raisers and charity golf outings and lots of things where the media are present....but what do they do when the camera's are turned off. 

The Mets took a team vote at 2:00 p.m. yesterday and decided they weren't going to play last night. They were upset that a rapist with an outstanding arrest warrant was shot while resisting arrest. This miscreant had 3 of his kids in the car along with his knife and he went to the home of one of his many baby mamas....problem was she had an order of protection filed against him and she called the Kinosha Police....why not call a social worker or conflict mediator ? ah, i digress.....back to the mets.....they couldn't possibly play a baseball game 3 days after this shooting.....certainly not after the nba decided to cancel their games...and even the nhl cxld playoff games.....but the mets had to outdo their fellow athletes....the mets had to find a way to be the lead story on ESPN instead of just a footnote.....so they dressed for the game....waited until ALL the TV cameras to be turned on and then they placed a black olices matter shirt at home plate and walked off the field.......a lazy, look at me publicity stunt....a cheap and insignificant statement in defense of a criminal.....not a word when a 5 year old white child was executed by a black thug in North Carolina.....not a single protest when a white man and his stepdaughter where shot in the head by a blak thug after a fender bender in South Carolina.....not even a tweet or publicist statement when dozens of police are murdered by criminals everyday in this country........if these athletes seriously care about making their communities better they should volunteer their time.....and stop wasting ours.

When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for

they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the

corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most

certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.  ( Matthew 6:5 )

i personally have cut ties to professional sports.....i wont attend games even with a free ticket...Rangers too....I won't buy any t-shirts or items that are officially licensed by professional teams....if the game is on free tv i may still watch ...but i no longer care.......

Bob Dylan wrote this a decade ago.......i think it's no longer getting there...the darkness is here.

I was born here and I’ll die here against my will
I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there    ( Dylan)

  

so forget about your yesterday's of sorrow

And forget about the darkness you have seen (j.garcia)

it takes a lot to stun me in this year 2020....but lo and behold FDNY Fire Commissioner Nigro has done just that.....he has "URGED" firemen to SKIP 9/11 commemoration events this year.

let that sink in.......seriously....take a deep breath........we have not even reached the 20th anniversary yet and not only has the general public began to forget, downplay, rationalize or ignore what happened that day....but NOW.....the FDNY Commissioner is brushing this 'unfortunate event" under the rug.........first they tried to eliminate the reading of the names....then they tried to cancel the Tribute in Light.......and now the commish is telling firemen to skip the whole thing .......i seriously wonder what the fuck is wrong with this country...how the hell do so many self loathing pieces of shit rise to position of leadership.

I hope the entire Fire Department ignores this guidance ....and i hope this winter his Snow Shoveling Detail calls in sick during the first snowstorm.

Elementary, Bob Watson

 Yanks loose 3 straight......have 11 guys on DL ......Mets are hottest team (this week) in baseball.......poised for a sweep...and then the Hong Kong flu strikes......I suspect pinstripe foul play.....clearly the ghost of Boss George infected the Mets .

Time isn't holding up

 Time isn't after us

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Letting the days go by
Same as it ever was
And here the twister comes
Here comes the twister  ( d. byrne)

well....with major Colleges suspending fall sports i am very optimistic that the Football players at the Big Ten Factories of Michigan and Ohio State will use this down time to concentrate on their online degrees....we should see the GPA's for these student athletes skyrocket now that the athletic department staff will be taking the anonymous classes for the star athletes. seriously though...most of these guys have been consumed with football 24/7 since they were 10....they were excused from the mundane chores of normal kids because they were "athletes"...they were exempt from the laws and norms of society and their criminal behavior was explained away or brushed under the rug.......let's see what happens when they find themselves back in the inner cities this septbember/october, instead of raping coeds in the luxurious Athletic dorms.....i think the SEC is holding on to hopes of their season so they can actually keep an eye ( or lid) on their players......i actually look forward to reading the tiny paragraph blips about this cornerback or that defensive lineman being arrested on a hodge podge of charges across the great U.S.A. ....funny how just 2 weeks ago the players were uniting to demand social justice before they would agree to participate in sports this fall.......well maybe not social justice....but i think you just GOT equality........you just went from the staring tailback of USC to a "person of interest".....good luck.

side note ....with the islanders and flyers up 1-0 in the playoff series.....we need a Corona outbreak in Toronto now more than ever.....cmon CHINA...go north of the border.

second side note.......the Mets, Braves and most of the MLB have already played 20 of their scheduled 60 games in this shortened season........the Cardinals have only played 5 because of postponed games .....how can they possibly make up 15 games in 7 weeks ?    5 inning triple headers ?  

Once in a Lifetime .......