Thursday...

Sports

Lets talk about the things the blog was made off of.

Giants:

NIce no hitter by Timmy.  Wouldn't be surprised for him to be traded. But I hope he is not.  I think he's learning how to adapt. He's pitching great the last 5 games minus the 6th inning.  But hey, at least he's not Zitoing or Caining the games.

Jeff F. was a good signing.  Cody Ross - esq signing.  He used to be excellent but is in a slump.  Cody Ross, Aubrey Huff and Freddy Sanchez were similar in 2010.

Hunter Pence will be offered a contract next year, but nothing near where he is making now.  He will have to take a pay cut.  He is a great glove, almost gold glove. But his bat is too erratic.

Giants should sign Alfredo Aceves.  He is an excellent pitcher, Chad Gaudin like with the Bullpen or Start.  Problem is the attitude.  Giants should be able to provide ACeves with a positive change.
Note: I've seen him pitch in the start, in the bullpen, and at the close.  He's too sporadic for the closing job, but relief or start is acceptable, especially comparing to Zito and Vogey this year.

Buster is awesome. And I don't think he'll disappoint us the next half.

Giants should try to get my fave..Jacoby Ellsbury .  He'll be a free agent next year.. Excellent leadoff man. Can replace Pagan.. Con: He's expensive.

Alex Rios. Same type outfielder like Ellsbury... Just right handed.


Sacramento Kings:

Awesome that they're staying. Retarded front office.  Kings should have never offered Reke, Iggy, or Landy Contracts.  They're not worth that price.  Glad we got fellow Marylander Vasquez..still have too many guard.  Need to get rid of Thornton, Hayes and Fredette.   AS much as I like Thomas, we should shop him for a big man, say.. Thomas Robinson.  Still can't believe we did that trade.

The two rookies look promising.. Even more promising than the guard on the roster.. But we don't have any room for them.

BYe TYREKE. I won't miss you, just think about how much Steph is better and how your 20-5-5 campaign was terrible misleading. BTW steph was 19-6-4. ..and Like said before, had a triple double before you.. A better one too.

SF

Love Pat! and Bow. .. I think Kap's gonna have some troubled games.. Expectation are really high for him this year.. I like how he likes the challenge. We'll see if he can compete above expectations.
Excited to have Anquan. Always gave the 49ers trouble when he was with the cardinals.  Lets pray he has at least 2 good years before he down falls.

I think Mariano Rivera's All star game performance was heart changing.  I love that he still has 42 as his number. Was exciting to see him on the game by himself.

K. Just wanted to get some sports off the chest.



Enjoy.

justice or not

Justice seems today, never to be quite justice.  Our justice system is so devastating that a death of a 17 year old African American has called millions to yell injustice. But before everyone runs their mouth to voice their opinion on whether the not guilty verdict is right, stop and put yourself in the scenario.

If you were Zimmerman, an off patrol neighborhood security guard, following a suspicious man in the neighborhood you patrolled and lived, attacked you, you would defend yourself. As stated from his self defense instructor, he took steps to ensure the safety of his neighborhood and himself. It is arguable and complicated to understand the circumstances , but if you were jumped by a male, who you do not know, and feared for your life, hearing what Martin said, what would you do.

So the two shouldn't have collided, and Zimmerman didn't know the street names. He still dialed 911 before getting out of the car.  Sure, he didn't need to get out of the car to follow the straggler, but isn't that more of heroism than looking for trouble. Sometimes, what's overlooked is a person with curiosity and hero like attributes . Yes, he didn't need to follow Martin. But Martin didn't need to attack him not did he have to threaten Zimmerman.

Look at the case and the facts. Put yourself in the shoes of Martin. Why would you attack someone who is following you, when the man clearly wasn't threatening your life.  Why wouldn't you run and disappear? Why would you attack someone who clearly thinks your up to no good. If you were there for a reason, why would you escalate it to a fight? Because your scared? Afraid of what? 

I understand the justice system is messed up in so many ways. Do I think Zimmerman was guilty or not? We ll never know. But if I just look on the outside and think of what it must've been like for either person with the facts and statements, I don't see why A) There was an attack in the first place. And B) why the heck did Zimmerman get out of the car.

It is truly a sad case because a life was lost. Regardless of the races played in this scenario, it is truly sad that someone died. I wish the court systems were better and that Zimmerman would pay some sort of time for manslaughter. But this is the system that drops the lower crime to chase the bigger one. The DA could have and still might, try to chase the assault instead of the murder. But either way, the justice system allows the 50/50 justice if your guilty or not guilty. 

I really wish people would drop the race comments. It's almost unfair because if the races were switched, we would be saying the African American was fighting in self defense and the loss of life was am accident. The more and more times we bring up race means the more and more we let racism affect us.

I agree Zimmerman should do time . But I also know that, even though he is free, he has to live with this the rest of his life. His job security is never for sure and obtaining a new one would be so much harder. Travyons face will forever hunt him and Martins family will never get their son back. It is truly a sad day in which the World sees flaws or the courts are in effective. But at the same time, it should be a lesson that , there's no reason to attack a man, especially if there is no threat. 

Remember before you judge, we are only on lookers. We were never there in the situation. We can only help ourselves in the future. Don't be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Im sure if you self defended yourself and accidentally killed someone, you would be undeniably questioned, why did you kill this person.

And you wouldn't be saying all the crap celebrities are saying. 

Dear Abigail

Dear Abi,

Ever notice that the free world is no longer free. 

Technically speaking, we are a free country, but what in life can we do that is free.

Wake up, in a dump, eat garbage for breakfast lunch and dinner,

Look for cans so we can purchase some food.. Or cigarettes. Or Alcohol.

Or drugs. But what drugs are under 10 bucks?

No, we have more standards than that. We went to elementary school, passed through high school.

But maybe we stopped for college. 

Maybe we took a break, so we could earn some money.

Ah Money. The free world is no longer free after high school.

So during high school.. maybe before college, we work.

We work that minimum wage job to chase our desires and save for college.

The free world is no longer free and the free world no longer offers hand me downs.

But didn't we get the memo? No.

Our parents never shined the light on that memo.

So we either end up as the paragraph above or we work.

Not free.

So we work. We work our asses off until our ass can no longer stand.

We work so god damn much that we forget to work our bodies out into shape.

We work so hard that we forget to chase our goals and dreams, because hey.

Our goals and dreams cost more money than this minimum wage paying job pays.

So we expand our thoughts and start thinking the what if game.

The what if I get paid for this or take this job role because now we have experience.

But along this job description we desire, the scripture says 4 year college degree.

By now, we're at the game of 22 trying to get back into that rhythm we once had about going to class.

The government hands us little checks that take away part of the debt,

and we no longer can work 40 hours a week.

Except, our employers want us to work 40, but we can only give them 30, 

Oh and by the way, we're only maintaining a C average, cause we're not so smart after all.

What's a person to do when we're struggling to go back to school to better ourselves,

Can't work a full-time job because school gets int he way of bettering ourselves,

Do we settle for paragraph 1? Just say f it and become bums.

Or do we go back to paragraph number 2, and just work because nobody understands us.

If we're smart, we keep going. If we have a drive, we strive for the finish line.

Except maybe only half of us in the free world are like that.

Probably less than half to tell you the truth.

The other half will have a relationship which results in a kid.

And the only thing they'll have is paragraph number 3.

The other quarter will probably give up the school business and think of only the short term.

Which will mean they find a restaurant job and have side jobs to keep the cash.

Forgot to mention, there's that 5 percent that marry into the rich.

And the 1 percent that become richer than rich cause they're beautiful.

The free world isn't so free now that you think of it. Is it.?

Your parents nor mine, have the name of Rockefella or Buffett

Or a successful business like Apple, Microsoft, or Dell.

Our parents may be successful in the community, in the city, in the town..

But it's not at the national level. 

Because if it was, we would already be set to occupations,

And the last 6 paragraphs wouldn't apply to us.

I don't know about you but I don't want to be known for what my father did.

Bruce Wayne.

If we're smart, we keep doing what we're doing.

The free world was founded on freedom of religion, freedom of anything.

To be honest, we should have kept going after high school to get that college degree.

We should have taken loans which accumulate interest over time, to get that paper that puts us

above the lazier half.

It's not that we can't afford it, no because the free world hands me down that check.

It's because we're either too busy caught up with the social media,

Or we're too caught up with the cash in our pocket to fulfill our desires.

I mean, if someone asked you at 18, would you rather make 20 k or be 20k in debt,

which would you take.

If you could chase those clothing fashion trends for 20k in 4 years, or have just a piece of paper

wearing Target clothes for negative 20k, which would you choose.

All people who have that paper, that wasted that 20k, who spent countless hours of studying would tell you.

Wear Target clothes and go get that paper.

Trends, fashions, fads always wear out.

But that paper, it will stay with you the rest of your life.

Having a title, whether it's an undergrad, masters, or Ph D., it's worth that 100k you lost.

Technically, you never had the 100k.

You're just going to have to pay 100k.

But isn't that better than taking 6 years to make a 100k?

Picture this.

If we made 10 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week a 52 weeks a year, we would have.

20, 800 dollars.  That's not including a 20 percent tax rate. Which comes out to 16640.

Out of that 16640, we would probably spend 8000 on rent, and 3000 on food. That leaves us with

5000 to play around with.. a Year..for our fashionable celebrity like clothing we 'll only wear once.

If we we're 100k in debt, but had that paper making 100k...We'd be taxed 35 percent, but be taking home 65k a year.. Minus that for the same rent  and food, we'd still have 54k.  

Short term number 1 looks good. Long term number 2 looks 5x as good.  Forgot to mention,

you could probably afford a house with choice 2. And you would settle your debt within the first 3 years of living. Or two if you just paid that remaining 50k.

What's funny about the free world is that we take everything for granted.

We don't think about the third world countries, who are disabled from government bonds and education checks.  Their countries don't pay 40k towards your school education, or even loan you the 100k amount to get that paper.

Opportunities are better here in America.

But they're also abused here more than anywhere else.

Why do you think students from all over the world come to the Free World.

Ignorant people might say, they're giving up spots to the homegrown kids.

But honestly, if homegrown kids don't have that drive. or strive. or that motivation to become

What they can become,

Why would schools lower their prices.

I'm guessing that 99 percent of us are grinding . Or attempting to grind.

The free world is here if we take it.

We shouldn't take what we have for granted.

And we shouldn't settle for anything less than great.

But it ultimately comes to the individual who decides whether or not they'll grind and shine

Or just be lazy and pathetic.

Everyone has certain obstacles and circumstances to over come. 

But at the same time, everyone has the same opportunity as one another to do good.

If a poor man in poverty is able to overcome his bullies and struggles without parents,

To becoming a millionaire who lives comfortably,

It's not because he got lucky,

Or abused government hand outs.

It's because he worked hard.

He never let excuses get in his way.

Don't settle for less.

Part 1.