I don't care if Bonds and every other MLB player did massive amounts of steriods for years before it was outlawed. I barely care if they do any now that they are outlawed by MLB.
Point is, if the stuff would have been available to former players fifty years ago, you can bet your backside they would have done them too.
So, why is the government spending millions of my tax money on something that is a MLB issue, instead of providing health care, and food and clothing for the poor or our veterans?
I understand Barry Bonds is a bit of a jerk. Guess what, I don't care!
They say some want to put an asterisk on a baseball... think it's stupid, see sentence two above, but ultimately, I don't care!
This is such a waste of time and money better spent on helping people I can't even begin to understand why the public doesn't outrage...
I offer my sincere condolences to the Litteken family, Adam’s friends and the Cottleville community. I can only hope that they can come together and heal from this senseless tragedy.
At times like these I find myself with a lack of words to properly describe the feelings of empathy and sadness that fill me, the depth of those feelings, as painful as they are for me, must be overwhelming to Adam’s parents and close friends, and make my words seem shallow and diminutive to my own ears.
With this said, I hope that the Litteken family will excuse the remainder of this blog, and know that all persons of good spirit support them now in their time of tragedy.
I am appalled and ashamed by the reprehensible comments posted by members of our very own FoxSports community.
DetroitRed, “a message to all the racists who cant wait to delve off topic when its a black guy...sorry he wasn't black”
racefanwfo, “hockey s.u.c.k.s. who cares if the little #### died”
I found these examples on the first 7 pages, along with other posts by our community calling for the death of these posters, while the rest offered support for the Litteken family.
While the three posts I copied from above are bad enough, we have others calling for their death, and discussing racism, and spouting words of hate and disrespect for humanity. As the Litteken family was actually there reading these horrid comments, along with Adam’s classmates, and friends, I decided not to post my comments about our FoxSports community members on the actual story above.
I would expect that an overwhelming majority of our posters, had a true wish to offer words of encouragement and support to those affected by this tragedy, however many of them tainted their posts with comments of hate for posters such as the three I quoted above.
I am not suggesting for one moment that the comments of these three, or any others who may follow their rancid footsteps are to be accepted. I too am angry with them, and pity them for their soulless callow existences, but I do not think that our community members need sully Adams memory with the posts.
I don’t know what if anything can be done to undo the damage that has already been meted upon Adam’s family and friends, they have after all already seen the posts, and for that I am truly ashamed of our community, and offer whatever apologies one could make for the disrespect our community has shown.
I am asking our community, and FoxSports, what if anything can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
I would suggest as a beginning that these posters, the three I noted above, and any others like them, have their accounts terminated at the earliest opportunity, and that such actions as necessary and reasonable be taken to block their ability to return.
I would further suggest that community members that wish to post comments of support not make mention or reference to the posts of these social malcontents while doing so. At least this way, our community moderators can edit and remove the filth deposited by them without having to remove your good intentions.
There is a time and a place for bawdy fanaticism, and strenuous debate laced with colorful language, and testosterone fueled banter, this is not one of them.
I am open to the ideas and suggestions from our community members and FoxSports, on what we as a community can do about these situations, and I hope this blog may inspire the debate necessary to facilitate positive change for our entire community.
