Rant: The Willie Randolph Firings June 19, 2008
Posted by janethepain666 in Rants, Sports.Tags: baseball, Fred Wilpon, Jerry Manuel, New York, Omar Minaya, The Mets, Willie Randolph
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I just need to get this whole big rant off my chest. No one has to give a shit about it, no one has to comment on it.
Willie Randolph should not have been fired from my personal favorite team, the New York Mets. It happened for two main reasons: PR and covering Omar Minaya’s ass.
Willie Randolph turned The Mets around after the disastrous Art Howe years, and it disappoints me that he has been run out of town like the two managers before him. In my opinion, he couldn’t have done much to prevent the 2007 season collapse. Same thing for this season.
It’s not Willie Randolph that was screwing shit up, it was the actual players, who have the talent to win the World Series, they just haven’t been playing to their full potential. A manager cant just force his players to do a good job out their. You can lead a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.
If The Mets don’t turn around their season soon, Omar Minaya will be the next to get fired.
And before anyone starts screaming at me about where I was before this happened, I would like to mention that I was against him being fired from the start.
This is the worst decision Fred Wilpon has ever made.
That being said, good luck, Jerry Manuel. While I would have preferred Willie Randolph to stay, at least for the remainder of the season, I am certain you will be an excellent manager. I hope we can make it to the World Series with you in the future. Though maybe not this season, someday.
Let’s take New York back from The Yankees like we did in the ’80s!
Rant: Same Sex Marriage June 19, 2008
Posted by janethepain666 in Rants.Tags: gay, homophobes, inequality, marriage, religion, Same sex marriage
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Marriage is a very important thing. It shows a commitment between two people that runs deeper than just a relationship. So when that’s denied to someone because they’re in love with someone of the same sex, it pisses me off.
Not everyone who opposes same sex marriage is a homophobe. But even if you think that gays can have a similar ceremony with a different name, it still encourages inequality, because it says “You’re different. You can’t have what we have. A man can have a wife, but if he wants to spend his life with another man, they’re not husbands.” Even if inequality isn’t your goal, it still is the outcome.
Think of it this way: if the laws of “separate but equal” racial segregation separated blacks and whites, but really did give them the same quality schools, bathrooms, and theater seats, it still wouldn’t be true equality. Because what made “separate but equal” unequal was not only that blacks got the bad things that whites didn’t want. It’s the “separate” part that also encouraged inequality. When people are separated based on something that is not a choice, it creates inequality.
Being gay is not a choice. So why should they be separated from straight people in anything, including their right to marry?
Some may say that marriage is between a man and a woman by definition. Bullshit. Definitions change, smart one. And while not all “traditional” things are bad, I think inequality is a tradition we should end, don’t you think?
Now, on to my next category of same sex marriage-opposers: religious right-wing nuts. I’m not going to get into a Bible study session with this. I am atheist and nonreligious, and have no reason to so much as open a Bible, so I can’t say it would be my place to criticize your beliefs, or prove your interpretations of the Bible wrong. Believe what you want.
But honestly, do you really think you’re doing any good by forcing your personal beliefs on anyone? Can’t the likelihood of gays going to heaven be an individual’s decision, and not yours, in the form of federal law? If you keep your religion out of our country’s laws, I will keep my nasty opinions of you to myself.
Sound good?
