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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 7/23 - Legacies

I was just listening to the Rita Cosby Show on WOR-AM in NYC. It has been reported that six months after the scandal that forced him to resign from congress, Anthony Weiner exchanged explicit tweets for six months with a 21-yearold woman - under the moniker Carlos Danger! He even offered to help her get a condo in Chicago. Any doubts of his fitness for the office of mayor should now be laid to rest. He is eminently qualified and fits right in with all the other whores in NYC politics.

Ryan Braun was named NL MVP in 2011. Last year he was accused of using performance enhancing drugs and vehemently denied it. He has now been suspended for the rest of the entire 2013 season for his connection to the Biogenesis Case and has issued an apology. Alex Rodriguez, currently rehabbing a hip, has also been implicated in the scandal, along with several other major leaguers. I understand why a player would use steroids, as there are millions at stake, but it is shocking to learn that Braun's denials were boldfaced lies. That makes his behavior seem as pathological as Weiner's and Eliot Spitzer's. Will the legacy of such players be damaged? My hunch is that their cheating will be forgotten in the long run. After all, steroids and the wild card revived baseball after the last strike. By looking away during the Sosa/McGwire home run race and the accomplishments of Barry Bonds, the game's management acted as enablers.

Sportswriters are often fickle and ridiculous. I laughed when several used the word "legacy" in recent articles. It was said that Phil Mickelson had cemented his and Tiger Woods had damaged his. Before the British Open, Lefty had won 42 tournaments, including four majors, Woods 78 and 14. They are two of the greatest golfers of all time, despite what happens during the rest of their careers. Mickelson, 43, Woods, 38, show no signs of slipping. If Woods has slipped - he finished sixth - it was from a perch no golfer had ever attained at such a young age. The men are one and two in this year's FED-EX Cup race. One legacy no one will worry about is that of the writers. What clowns.

My thanks to today's buyers and donors. Fortunately, the thunder storms that were predicted did not materialize, and it was considerably cooler than last week, although still very humid. Conditions are supposed to improve, although that was said last Saturday too.
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