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Message: [QUOTE="uconn13, post: 2395903, member: 5717"] I find it all off-putting myself, but this is what sports has turned into. Object loudly, and you're labeled as someone who has a problem with athletes having fun, an old curmudgeon. Second inning home runs are celebrated en masse like winning the Stanley Cup is celebrated. Problem is, it is all one big fraternity....no one objects, because they are all doing it. Got to be good sheep, and follow the flock. Busy adding style over substance, the modern "pro"....the ESPN effect of the last 30 odd years, I suppose. All of the games, and sportsmanship, have changed, unfortunately. The scripted apology from the Houston guy after mocking the Dodger pitcher, another of the modern sports themes. "If I offended anybody, I didn't mean to, I am sorry" (that I got caught). Suspend him next year cause it wouldn't be fair to his teammates to take him away now, how hard they all worked to get to this point. Maybe if they take him away now, wishful thinking here, these guys would get the message that no time for the baloney is tolerated, and they'd start policing themselves. Better chance of the fox guarding the hen house, in all likelihood. It is what it is. Tuning out seems to be the only self satisfactory option. If only the mute button would help silence the behavior....that is my get rich quick idea, although most of the folks who'd be interested in this invention, are old and have little money, so I'd probably lose my laundry trying to market that idea to the younger masses [/QUOTE]

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