Since Fox Sports has chosen to silence me by choosing to no longer publish anything I write, I created this blog and wrote the following article:

I came to a realization today that most modern sportswriters, as well as columnists employeed by non-sporting mainstream media outlets, have made a sheer and utter mockery of the First Amendment by negatively living off the coat-tails of those whom were blessed with particular gifts. 

It seems that to many modern columnists, superstars - regardless of profession - are no longer human beings, but machines who must operate at full speed at all times or face the bitterly negative consequences.

In other words, today's mainstream media eagerly waits for, and in some cases provokes the gifted to make mistakes so its columnists can abuse their own god given gifts to write columns begrudging normally good human beings for making a particular comment, making a human judgment error, or partaking in a bad performance.

Take Charley Rosen for example. 

In his most recent article, he absolutely ripped to pieces a normally resolved Detroit Pistons team for their performance last night versus Miami.  To Rosen, there were absolutely no excuses for why Detroit played so poorly. To Rosen, the fact that the fatigue in the psyches' and legs of the Pistons was apparent after winning a 7 game dogfight over Cleveland meant absolutely nothing.  To Rosen, athletes must not be human.  They must be machines.   And it is sad because it is articles like this that crushes the excellency of one of the most progressive sports in this nation.

But here's the irony in things like this.  The same writers like Rosen whom consistently bark at the insufficient, as well as those whom constantly bemoan immorality amongst superstars, are the same writers whom violate ethics and morality every single day of their careers by feeding the disease that is called American ignorance.

These people feed off busy people like my father, who is a Detroiter who works 70 hour weeks making lives better for other people.  It used to be that when my dad got time to watch or read the news he would utilize the mainstream media and its quick scandalous blurbs to stay on top of world events.  But now, after being burned by news that affected his business, he no longer logs onto that type of stuff.  Instead he hits the book store and tries to find time to educate himself during what little downtime he has.

My father is just one of millions of people in this nation whom fall into this trap, and the columnists whom write such garbage make fairly substantial livings off it. 

However, I refuse to be one of these people.  And so should you.

It is important you realize that Fox Sports, as well as the contest that comes with it, is nothing more than a manipulative scam.

Fox sports leadership may argue that we should be grateful for them providing us a place to showcase our writing and entertainment skills.

But do not be fooled - especially you new bloggers.

The relationship between Fox Sports and its loyal bloggers is parasitic at best.  While it is true Fox gives us a place to write, Fox also receives the opportunity to generate ratings and hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more. 

The bottom line is that without calling McDonalds and ordering a large NGS contest with moldy cheese, Fox does not generate as much blog attendance, nor does it generate enough ratings to keep up with espn.com and cnnsi.com.

In other words, each one of us are nothing but puppets in the Fox Sports show.

But I am willing to be a puppet of Fox no longer.

And you should not either.

In retrospect, I take pride in the fact that  my articles highlighted the positives in people and organizations.  Most people whom have read my writings serve as witnesses to this fact.  Not one of my articles served to demonize any athlete and most of my articles tied sports to humanity.  When I did voice opinion, the opinion was always verfied with statistics and not just bickering.

Ultimately, my desire to highlight goodness in people as opposed to wretchedness is perhaps why I will never be part of Fox Sports, nor any other mainstream media outlet.

But this is ok with me.

And if other people want to sell their souls to become part of the problem in America, that is ok with me as well.

Good night.

JMM