Sacrifice
This is supposed to be a LeBron free zone, but I just can't help it. I read another story today.
"This is all about sacrifice now," LeBullshit said. "We sacrificed dollars to make us a winning team."
Poor guys.
Wade, Bosch and LeBullshit left three million dollars from their $111 million on the table so that the team could go out and sign other free agents.
It was implied that the sacrifice made by the chosen one's puts a hardship on their families as they move forward, but they are willing to do so.
Great guys. All for the greater good.
"Don't forget LeBron sold ads for his announcement to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of America," someone said to me when I made it clear that his special was a disgusting display of Me, My Mine. (A great Beatles song, by the way).
And maybe I've had enough of sports in general. Maybe it took the sacrifice comment to make me see straight beyond the games that I used to really love.
Sacrifice?
How about a single mother working two jobs to make ends meet and staying home because it's either go out for a night of fun or feed the kids?
How about a working man getting up and out of bed every morning at five, working ten or twelve hour days so that the three kids sloughing around the house have a chance at paying the skyrocketing college tuition prices? (That one sounds familiar).
How about the war veteran that can't get decent medical care, but still finds a menial job so that he can stay clear of a homeless shelter?
Or the man who goes back to school after working in a factory for years and years, only to see it close down and move to Mexico when he was within ten years of retirement.
Those are sacrifices.
Not leaving three million on the table from a $111 dollar contract.
It's a good thing that LeBullshit picked Jim Gray to do his interview. He should have picked me. It would have gone something like this:
LeBullshit: I'm taking my talents to South Beach to play for the Miami Heat.
ME: Really? Your talents? You selfish p&*ck? That's how you want to start this interview? Don't you want to say anything to the millions of people through the years who sacrificed their talents to watch you bounce a freaking ball?
LeBullshit: I'm making sacrifices here. I left millions on the table for the chance to win.
ME: So we can blow more smoke up your illiterate ass? Is that why you did it? My what a humanitarian you are. How will you feed your family from here on out? I hear they pass out food stamps for guys like you who are forced to leave all that money on the table.
LeBullshit: My momma always told me to do what makes Lebron James happy.
ME: You're Lebron James! Stop talking about yourself like you aren't even in the room. Stop talking about yourself period. Suffer through your sacrifices in quiet humility like the rest of the poor bastards who are paying eleven dollars for a warm draft beer as you jog up and down a court putting a ball in a basket. You suck!
Lebullshit: I'm just trying to do what's best for LeBron James.
ME: I hope you break both legs stepping off the pedestal you put yourself on.
Don't you think that would have been a better interview?
Sacrifice!
My God!
"This is all about sacrifice now," LeBullshit said. "We sacrificed dollars to make us a winning team."
Poor guys.
Wade, Bosch and LeBullshit left three million dollars from their $111 million on the table so that the team could go out and sign other free agents.
It was implied that the sacrifice made by the chosen one's puts a hardship on their families as they move forward, but they are willing to do so.
Great guys. All for the greater good.
"Don't forget LeBron sold ads for his announcement to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of America," someone said to me when I made it clear that his special was a disgusting display of Me, My Mine. (A great Beatles song, by the way).
And maybe I've had enough of sports in general. Maybe it took the sacrifice comment to make me see straight beyond the games that I used to really love.
Sacrifice?
How about a single mother working two jobs to make ends meet and staying home because it's either go out for a night of fun or feed the kids?
How about a working man getting up and out of bed every morning at five, working ten or twelve hour days so that the three kids sloughing around the house have a chance at paying the skyrocketing college tuition prices? (That one sounds familiar).
How about the war veteran that can't get decent medical care, but still finds a menial job so that he can stay clear of a homeless shelter?
Or the man who goes back to school after working in a factory for years and years, only to see it close down and move to Mexico when he was within ten years of retirement.
Those are sacrifices.
Not leaving three million on the table from a $111 dollar contract.
It's a good thing that LeBullshit picked Jim Gray to do his interview. He should have picked me. It would have gone something like this:
LeBullshit: I'm taking my talents to South Beach to play for the Miami Heat.
ME: Really? Your talents? You selfish p&*ck? That's how you want to start this interview? Don't you want to say anything to the millions of people through the years who sacrificed their talents to watch you bounce a freaking ball?
LeBullshit: I'm making sacrifices here. I left millions on the table for the chance to win.
ME: So we can blow more smoke up your illiterate ass? Is that why you did it? My what a humanitarian you are. How will you feed your family from here on out? I hear they pass out food stamps for guys like you who are forced to leave all that money on the table.
LeBullshit: My momma always told me to do what makes Lebron James happy.
ME: You're Lebron James! Stop talking about yourself like you aren't even in the room. Stop talking about yourself period. Suffer through your sacrifices in quiet humility like the rest of the poor bastards who are paying eleven dollars for a warm draft beer as you jog up and down a court putting a ball in a basket. You suck!
Lebullshit: I'm just trying to do what's best for LeBron James.
ME: I hope you break both legs stepping off the pedestal you put yourself on.
Don't you think that would have been a better interview?
Sacrifice!
My God!
Comments