2. UH, I applaud your summary of the cake v. pie debate. Well don.

3. F@ck cake. Pie 4 Life.

U’s Hair:

This war is an underlying theme that emerges just about every week in various posts. When asked his opinion in a post a few months back, Craig chimed in at one point with an (I’ll say) offensive [action verb expletive] cake, whereas we all know that you only do that to pie. Of course, he was almost immediately taken to task by somebody—I’m not sure of the offended interloper’s identity—who was not happy with the use of an expletive by the writer of HBT.

Yesterday, heyblueyoustink chimed in that he was partial to ice cream, so the battle seems to be evolving even more.

Do you have a rebuttal or are you just making a blanket statement with no comparisons?

Pie=being humble? Just a guess. Please elaborate…

I appreciate the critique. I like to throw a little edge in my comments to have a fun. I don’t know why people take it personal. We should have fun on blogs. That’s why we are here. I enjoy the discussion, even when it’s dissenting. I’m no troll. Just like to promote a little discussion.

Thanks again.

IMO almost no one would use the choice of words and phrases you put out there and expect anything other than the outrage you got. They seemed designed to create a furor. I genuinely feel you are not trolling for a reaction and you are now perplexed at how you were addressed about your initial comments. My reply to you here was to explain that to you, not provide stylistic critique.

One thing I had to get used to when I started commenting here was how vehemently people could disagree with me over very small things. Once I got used to the notion that was going to happen I got a lot more relaxed about criticism but more careful about how I say what I say. And if you think this is bad, wait’ll you screw up a stat. You better have a thick skin when that happens man.

Now, in order to even out this business of being too agreeable I just want to point out that Roberto Luongo, the Canuck’s goalie, who plays tonight against the Nashville Predators, has a WAY better slick-back than does your boy Chase Utley. I defy you to disagree. So there.

I’m a baseball fan. PED’s are more damning to the sport that I watch then a DUI that was committed on the players off time. Now, if the player shows up to a game drunk, then I would take issue with that. I know many people, including myself, that had a DUI once in our lives and made a mistake. But, I don’t demonize them for it.

Second, Michael Vick is NOT a hero, and I don’t see anybody making one out of him. He’s a guy who did his time, which was ordered by the courts. He got out. He lost a good bit of his playing window while behind bars. He lost endorsements and his contract, ergo, his job and his livelihood. He lost millions of dollars. He is entitled to make a living, and if that is playing football, than so be it.

Do I like dog fighting? Absolutely not. Do I like people tying one on, and then strapping themselves in—or not—to a car and driving? Hell no. Do I see one as more dangerous than the other? Yes. DUIs kill people and put the driver and others at risk.

The trouble is the “sweeping under the rug” comment.

The encore of “demonized to the point that they treat you like you killed someone” made it worse.

Of course leading with ” It really was no big deal, unless you killed someone” didn’t help.

Not to mention “I’m more upset when a player gets caught taking PEDs than this because it affects the game that I love to watch.” makes it look like you value baseball over the safety of innocent people.

Matthew pretty much lays out what I think you meant (or now say you meant; whatever) in this post. This is by far a better choice of words and a better set of reasons than “they’ve always ignored it before” & “PEDS is worse than DWI”. Those are not reasons. One’s a damning indictment and the other’s an opinion.