A-Rod Story on 60-Minutes

[Crown@club]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I can't help but laugh at all of the outrage of the public in these matter of players using drugs. We believe that the number of guys using is pretty high yet according to the poll listed by Danzig, the sport still made $7b in revenue and is the second most popular in the country. "I hate you all.....now here, take my money." I think people talk about how bothered they are by the cheating because it seems like the right thing to do but inside, they don't actually care. I know I don't. I don't watch sports for the morals. I watch it to be entertained. If I'm going to the stadium, I want to see a 600-ft home run. I wouldn't care if a guy called time out at home plate and stuck the needle in right there. As long as I'm entertained, for the prices they charge, I'm good.

I remember years ago, Chris Rock was doing a show and he was talking about people that smoke crack. He mentioned Marion Barry. One of his jokes went like this, "I was talking to a group of kids and telling them crack is bad, don't smoke crack, you'll never be anything in life. One of the kids yelled back 'I can be mayor." I think about that joke when when I think about Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, and Barry Bonds. Yeah, those guys won't make the hall of fame. But they enjoyed tremendous careers, tremendous fame, and made tons of money. They and their families are set for generations. Look at Ryan Braun. He'll come off of his suspension with a new deal making $20 million plus per year. Where, I ask, is the incentive for guys NOT to cheat?

Check out the value of the Arod and Bonds rookie card and then I like to say F Them very much!

[Crown@club]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Poll finds baseball second-most popular American sport
By Matt Snyder | Baseball Writer
January 7, 2013 1:33 pm ET

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-...-american-spor


no golf, tennis or soccer in sight.

note that the gap between mlb and ncaaf grew from the previous year.


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...oo-big-to-fail

'For now, the National Football League is doing quite well. The league brings in an annual revenue of $9.5 billion. To put that number into perspective, Major League Baseball, the second-highest grossing league in the USA, had an annual revenue of $7 billion in 2012 and the NFL more than doubles the National Basketball Association and their revenue of “just” $4 billion'

I read an article in the last couple of months mentioning baseball's population and continue revenue. I can't find it, but there was no way Baseball is below #2.

Here's a current Forbes article on revenues
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybro...-isnt-crazy/2/

I find it funny anybody thinks Golf and Tennis is more popular. Are you kidding me? Tennis just seems to be a blip. Soccer!!! Only if you're not from North America.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Jim it was 1 minute later. I was sitting at my desk and wanted to add the second point. So the got no play thing makes no sense.Im not trolling.
NCAA football and basketball have both passed MLB. NBA and NFL cleary. Soccer, Tennis and Golf are all right there as well.
Now were at the point where I am a mush and a liar. And when you dont agree with my opinion Im trolling? Arod has never tested positive. That was my point. The fact that he admitted to using later on to save face does not matter much to me.

Funny that cable networks are signing multi-billion dollar tv deals not with conferences or leagues but with individual baseball teams.

Any football players or basketball players sign a contract extension that pays them 30 million a year like Clayton Kershaw (a baseball player) did today? Robinson Cano got a contract that pays him more than the entire Seattle Seahawks team makes the next two years.

Sounds like a dying sport has an awful lot of money flowing to it.

And how does Arod admitting to using PED's not matter? A confession is better than a positive test.

[randallscott35]

Truly hard to be less likable.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/stor...urn-suspension