Posted by: Joe A. () on Tue Jun 26 09:29:54 2001

This is a quote from Rudy Jaramillo on the ESPN website under Peter Gammons
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> "Bonds is a student who never stops learning," says Jaramillo. Barry told Rick Sutcliffe that he's learned to keep his upper half still, generate the thrust in his lower half, then throw his hands at the ball as if he's hitting a nail with a hammer. "He's got an incredibly quick, strong, fighter's upper hand," says Jaramillo.

Hello,

Yeah, here are my thoughts on that. Sports are a "past time." They are entertainment and not realy that important in the everyday world. If we were not entertained by sports it would be something else. If fact, more and more this is true. People are doing something else.

So, sports are not very important. In the not very important world of sports, those who play are not that important either. Anyone of them could quit tommorow and it wouldn't mean very much.

Less important are those who do not play but tell us about the game as it is happening. Even while we watch a game they tell us what we are watching. Talk about unimportant.

Even less important are the ones who talk about sports while its not happening. On TV, the radio at the corner bar. These are the lowest of the low. They talk, and talk, and talk. This is what they do. So, what they need to do is to find something to talk about that other people arent talking about. Something new or no body will listen.

For example, if Tiger is popular, you can bet a ton that most of these guys will bad mouth him. If enough of them bad mouth him, the tide will turn the other way. Its all meaningless prattle.

Since they are really not important it dosent matter what they say. So they say the most outlandish things. So, when you here them talking about hitting, forget it. If they knew what they were talking about they wouldnt be at the bottom of the sports food chain.

Joe A.