1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Monday. “A Lost Sports Weekend”
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“A LOST SPORTS WEEKEND”
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So how do you feel about what we all just experienced this weekend?
TRUMP SHOOTING…An appalling example of the divided country we live in, where political hate supersedes most everything, in most everyday life. Now everyone in both parties is screaming we have to ‘lower the temperature’ of the rhetoric, most of the hate-speech coming from the GOP and the wounded President. What was the first thing showed up on my Sunday morning Twitter feed, Marjorie Taytor Green with a gun and Mike Johnson, accusing Joe Biden of inciting the incident with a speech last week using the word ‘bullseye’. Like Trump gets a free pass for a lifetime of vitriol speech?
SCOTTISH OPEN…What a couple of hours or respite from what happened in Pennsylvania, the phenomenal comeback by hometown hero Rob MacIntyre, winning infront of his home country fans. He hit a 40′ uphill put on 14. He canned an eagle on 16. Birdie on 17. And a game winning 21′ putt on 18, to beat Adam Scott. What a gripping win by a journeyman golfer from Scotland.
SECRET SERVICE..Sunday brought brutal questions how a sniper, with a rifle and a scope, could get so close to Trump. Now we find out a Butler police officer was alerted there was a man with a gun on the roof of that building. He climbed up onto the roof, and the gunman pointed the rifle at him, and the officer went down the ladder never shooting nor confronting him. Seconds later the AR-15 firing began, 8-shots in all, one nicking Trump’s ear. Felt like Uvalde, Texas revisited. Awful.
DODGERS BLUE…New meaning, another pitching injury. Dustin May, coming off two elbow surgeries, now has emergency throat surgery, torn esophagus, and is gone for the rest of year. Torn throat tissue while eating dinner while on rehab assignment.
BY THE GRACE OF GOD…That’s what defiant Trump said overnight. Had he turned his head in a different direction, the bullet might have hit him in the temple causing death. He exited the stage, with a defiant fist in the air, urging followers to ‘fight’. Wonder if Trump will find God now that his life has been spared?
Don’t think so.
LAKERS SUMMER LEAGUE…Now Bronny James says he’ll go wherever the Lakers send him to play, obviously the NBA-G League. 3-games into his summer League play, Bronny is (6-26) shooting, has some rebounds and assists, but is overwhelmed. After a slow start 1st round pick Dalton Knecht has reeled off 20-25 points in back to back games.
REAP WHAT YOU SOW…So do you feel compassion for Trump? A lifetime of hate speech, you remember the insults to the military ‘suckers’.. the treatment of Gold Star families…the treatment of women…his conviction of fraud in New York…his racist statements about Charlottesville…his volatile statements urging the January 6th riot at the Capitol…the voting overthrow in Georgia…the Florida secret documents…the scam that was Trump University…urging hang Mike Pence..jail Hilary Clinton…the insult of Joe Biden’s career…the Stormy Daniels porn case conviction…’Build the wall-Mexico will pay for it’…the rhetoric tainted with Nazism quotes…the Retribution tour….I am the Law & Order President….Deportation of all illegals….the broad sweep of condemnation insinuating they are all Murderers, the Rapists, those who are here that are vermin-who taint our blood….the degradation of NATO and Ukraine support..the erosion-corruption of the once integrity-filled Supreme Court…on and on, .that’s who he is, what he represents. And his followers never hold him accountable.
SOCCER-SOCCER-SOCCER…Timeout from this awful weekend to enjoy the tremendous European Championship with Spain final victory over upstart England ,then the Copa America finals, the greatness of Lionel Messi-Argentina vs-the enormous team play of Colombia. It was not the World Cup, but it was damn close. Better days have to come for Team USA after the firing of Coach Gregg Berhalter. And Mexico keeps making changes, the latest the firing of Jaime Lozano, as El Tri looks lost.
THE FRIENDS YOU KEEP….How many of Trump’s inner circle have seen their lives and careers impacted by working for the former president. Advisors, lawyers, fundraisers, consultants, so called friends, a mounting list of people in massive legal trouble.
Virtually everyone of his inner circle, Steve Bannon-Rudy Guliani-Roger Stone-Michael Cohen and so many more have been convicted of crimes, gone to prison, or into bankruptcy for their relationship. Nice criminal element he hangs with. Add on his praise of the genius of Putin’s Ukraine invasion and his friendship with the North Korean leadership, there’s alot to dislike about the former President. And I wonder about the 296-in prison convicted of what they did at the Capitol at Trump’s urging. Think he cares at all about what happened to their life, now in prison.
PADRES-DODGERS…Somebody will do something between now and July 31st because of pitching problems. The Dodgers have 16-pitchers on the disabled list, the latest calamity, the season ending emergency throat surgery to Dustin May. The Padres are wafer thin in pitching, having nothing left in the farm system, and are trying to find a pitching rental without alot of assets to trade. To get where they need to go, a veteran pitcher, they may have to part with SS-Ha Seong-Kim or C-Luis Campusano.
END GAME…I hate where this country is, the lack of respect for decency, guns, the border crossing, the drug cartel crisis. I hate Trump’s desire to be king-dictator and all things about his MAGA partners I hate the failure of the Democratic party to find the next candidate in what was supposed to be Biden’s bridge presidency. I hate the sellout of the GOP, continuing the support of the criminal activities of Trump, taking care of their own jobs but not serving the country that needs their leadership.
WIMBLEDON..Looks as if the changing of the guard is complete, with Novak Djokovic getting dominated in losing the finals to fast coming star Carlos Alacarez. And you will have to tell me who is the heir apparent to the last legend we had, Serena Williams, since the top 3-seeds on the women’s side never got to the finals.
WHAT GOES ROUND-COMES AROUND..Isn’t it weird how all things have come back to haunt Trump. The Hollywood access tape about how he would treat women, and the end result of the EG Carroll lawsuit. The ‘We are Marching to the Capitol and I will be there with you’, now seeing how that worked out. The Stormy Daniels episode, and the statements they were lies, but Trump would not testify in the hush money trial. The complete support of the NRA and the 2nd amendment so he could retain NRA votes, and the fact he was shot by a Republican registered voter with an AR-15 assault rifle.
THE MEDIA-FAKE NEWS-1ST AMENDMENT…Screaming about immunity and 1st amendment rights, cannot wait to hear what my followers-readers have to say, especially the Pro Trumpers and the far right. They are allowed to speak, just like I have my 1st Amendment rights. Don’t like it, move to Russia or North Korea since they are close friends to the man the guy in Butler, Pennsylvania tried to shoot. They are all close friends. Next up Trump will be defiant..make himself into a martyr. We will all be victims.
WHAT IS NEXT…The conventions, more nasty campaigning, the election of November 5th. You can vote ‘Democracy vs Dictatorship.’ In my world, next will be the opening of NFL training camps, a pennant race, and then the NBA-NHL seasons. You enjoy your great sports weekend? I thought differently. Just an awful lost sports weekend.
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Sir:
I gathered as much. You’re a flaming left-wing liberal. And, what’s with the Kafkaesque
style of writing, (alternating paragraphs, one on sports, the other, a political rant on Mr. Trump).
Have some compassion will you? The Republican nominee was a couple of inches from being killed.
Like him or not, a shooting such as this should have been prevented and can never be tolerated.
Mr. Biden is infirm and senile.
Mr. Trump is an impulsive, ego-maniac.
Nevertheless, in my opinion, his economic policies were successful, ( before Covid) and his foreign policy principles embodied ” peace through strength. ”
The choices are beyond ideal; but, this is a changed America, (with self-serving, tribalistic values in this day-and-time).
I have been a loyal Hacksaw follower for years, and find you sports columns extraordinarily good, but am deeply disappointed with your recent vitriolic comments about Donald Trump. Are you so naive as to ignore the faults of almost all of our recent presidents, which information has been kept omitted by the liberal press? The hypocrisy of those who have occupied the white house, including the current president would disqualify all of them under your standards, if known. The issue is what will a president do to make this country great, not what they do in the bedroom. By you definition, only the Pope would qualify as president. Trumps record as president speaks for itself, he made me proud to be an American. Of course you have your “1st amendment right to your opinions, wrong as they might be. But I turn to your columns and to sports in general to get relief from the hatred of the politically biased press not for more of it. Your fans are better served by what expertise you provide from the sports world, not your personal politics. Just as many celebrities excel in their chosen fields, when it comes to politics they are generally rank novices and should be seen as such. I don’t need to read your column for more “hate news” you have plenty of more qualified competition in that arena already