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September 27, 2007 at 21:44:17

Is It Bush's Fault That Racists In Baseball Are Flooding Politics In America, Or Is It Visa Versa?

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Evil manifests it self in strange ways-it seeps into our loves, our games, our weaknesses and soon the land, like Camelot in symbiosis with its leaders rots before our eyes, but those with ears hear and those with eyes see, and the rest, simply don't get it and it all goes to Hell in no hand-basket. here is the story of such an even that destroyed what it took 4.5 billion years to build, for the lust of god, black gold by a handful of demoniacs on the greed, bigotry and Culture of Death of the few which grew into the many after the Hun was killed in his bunker, his evil sprit entered the bodies of several families and now swarms amidst the rotting, dying, land of once milk and honey, like Camelot, dying slowly, but there is no Arthur or Percival or Lancelot to save us and Excalibur lies broken in the Lake where the Lady of that Lake is trying to mend it, and God that she will have success!

I am certainly no San Diego fan, but I had some time and just happened to stumble onto the game in which, a short time later the Runge, Winters, Bradley affair took place.

It all began when plate umpire Brian Runge asked Bradley if he had flipped his bat toward Runge's direction after being called out on strikes ending the fifth inning and that Winter's told him that Bradley had done so.

Moments later after he singled Bradley, asked Winter's if he told Runge that he threw his bat and Winter's answer escalated the event, adding insult before injury, called Bradley a "...piece of shit..." First base coach Bobby Meacham San Diego manager Bud Black said Winter's used profanity. Bradley said it was, "the most unprofessional and most ridiculous thing I've ever seen."

It was clear even to my 10-year-old neighbor who was watching the game next door with his dad, how the affair began. Although no one else mentioned it, it was the seed planting, provocative conversation point made by home plate umpire Brian Runge that initiated the problem. He should have known better than to listen to gossip and to bring the matter to Bradley's attention-his action was stupid, and unethical, it was also an indication of the attitude of MLB umpires who think that millions come to games to watch them play Pope and judge, but act more like pompous hypocrites. I recognized immediately that Bradley was the dupe in a three-way attempt to nail him. I think Runge should share the blame and whether or not the entire thing was a case of Pecksniffian, Judgmentalism or a trap, racially motivated mean spirited, vengeance, or merely a case of stupidity, I do not know.

However, my panoply of reasons quickly boiled down to one as I began to read the myriad comments on various website by those who either never saw anything but the carefully edited video-short beginning and focusing on Bradley's seeming tantrum, ignoring what may have led to his rightful anger, or was racially motivated. Reading the comments and replies one could only come to once conclusion the vast majority of those writing were either uneducated boobs, or racists, and many seemed either adolescents or grown-ups with adolescent minds, if any. The more I read of the comments, the more racism, intolerance, and bitter hatred, even in the cases of those whose language supported that they were awfully young. Pre and post adolescent racism is and always has multiplied under conservative administrations, but for the time and place was never worse than right now and the past, near, six years.

Barry Bonds has experienced more racism than did Hank Aaron, possibly because he demonstrates a less conservative or less diminutive personality than Aaron did when he played. It has been years since I have heard racism that is more veiled and more overt racism than have been escalating exponentially, since January 2001. Aaron is the sort of Corporate bought Black racists use as an example of an Uncle Tom where they see Bonds as an ungrateful bundle of anger.

The recent attempt by Baseball collectors to Asterisk Bond's record-collectible baseballs, most notably his 756th Home Run Baseball, is an obvious attempt to indicate that Bonds is a cheat, and as we know in the many cases of blacks who sleep with white women or who excel in sports or entertainment, and especially who make a great deal more money than some whites, those who envy and therefore, criticize and slander, are in essense slandering and criticizing the One who Gifted these men of extraordinary ability, and those slanderers either know nothing about the game, less about physiology and indicate the prime racist faults; stupidity aided and abetted by lack of education and a hidden contempt for the God who gifted such men, instead of the slanderers.

The only people qualified to make comments about Bonds Prodigious Home run proclivity, are not baseball pundits, coaches, players, managers or writers, or even physicians, it is scientists schooled thoroughly in the science of statistics and chance.

As a Cultural Anthropologist, I can begin the discussion about steroids and Home run hitting, but it is a bit like spitting into the force of a hurricane-an uneducated, ignorant, spiteful, racist, hurricane. What we are experiencing in the sport of baseball concerning the new home run records of Barry Bonds, is an unreasonable, unreasoned, mob mentality of ignorant, racists and hate mongers, revisionists. It does no good to relate to Ox-Bow incidentalists with facts and realities. Hell is lined with the figures, which now vilify Bonds, Sosa and Palmiero as well as McGuire. However, unreasoning and ignorant the audience is, I shall for justice sake say it plainly and clearly before turning the matter over to specialists in chance.

In his book, JUICED, Jose' Canseco, claimed that more than 85% of MLB baseball players used anabolic Steroids. Many now claim that the bulking up steroid is the reason they were able to hit so many home runs, because it made them stronger. However, according to most drug analysts: Short term effects: slower reflexes, rapid pulse, dilated pupils, shallow rapid breathing, arousal, excitation, increased body temperature, distortions of perception (altered colors, shapes, sizes, distances, senses), exhilaration, anxiety, panic, sense of power, violent behavior, brain damage, convulsions, mood swings, hallucinations, memory gaps, dizziness, sleeplessness, constant yawning, mouth numbness, stomach discomfort, sweating, shivering, a feeling of separating from your body, weakness, clumsiness, decreased awareness of touch and pain, and sparse, incoherent speech, spontaneous abortion, congenital abnormalities. Long term effects: muscle tenseness, flashbacks of hallucinations, panic, profound depression, social withdrawal, lack of motivation and interest in life, anxiety, persistent speech problems, loss of memory, behavior similar to schizophrenic psychosis, coma, and heart and lung failure.

Not exactly, these qualities would help MLB baseball players, and, in fact, make it close to impossible for a player to time MLB pitching at all. The products work against speed of eye hand coordination, bat speed and clear vision, by blurring and distorting vision. The argument of records being broken because of steroid is ludicrous and an example of blear-witted, hebetudinous, thinking, and superstition, fed by bigotry to overcome education and science. These are evident in societies, which ignore logic and science in favor of superstition and preconceived and obviously absurd fantasies.

However, even more damaging, the argument that steroids, even if taken, according to Jose' Canseco' s book were taken by 85% of MLB players. Even if he was liberal in his estimate that would mean that the vast majority of major league players were using the same drugs that accusers point to Bonds, Sosa, McGuire and Palmiero used. That indicates a level playing field for the majority of players in the league taking a drug that hindered rather than helped hit a baseball thrown so fast that only a tiny percentage of humans in the world can hit with any consistency. So, then why a large percentage of the 85% challenge or break records?

For instance in 1907-1908 1907 and 1908, with a league-wide batting average of .239, slugging average of .306, and ERA under 2.4. That year, the Chicago White Sox hit three home runs for the entire season!

In 1930 when the ball was so juiced that it was evident to all, in both league's whole team batting averages went up by an average of 40 to 60 points over the averages of the period from 1901-1918, batting and homerun production nearly tripled.

In 1909, Ben Shibe created a cork-center for the ball, which was manufactured by the Reach Company, the ball supplier for the American League. Spalding, which supplied baseballs to the National League, also designed a cork-centered ball. This led to a spectacular change in scoring in both leagues. The AL went from .239 to .273 following the new ball in 1911. The AL and NL Average BA went from .239 in 1910 to .272 in 1912.

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Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more.
After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.

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Agatha PayneSmall town gal from a large Irish family.

Pete

It does seem that in every era in which "conservatives" have flooded into power, racism and violence has increased. It appears to me that your thesis from your blog that "conservatism" in its extreme form which we are seeing now, is a step beyond fascism, it is Nazism and it threatens democracy on the planet. Your paralleism in tracing of the symbiotic relationship with America's Pastime collectibles market showing occute signs of racism, as shown in your examples and your colleagues paper on the chance encounters of the home run and the irrelevance of and even counterproductiveness of steroid use, to home run hitting with which my brother a physician also agrees with you upon seems lost on everyone but us. Steroid use among the Big Four, if there even is any, was a waste and ineffective, Your paper here is a coup of subtle brilliance, which baseball's adolescent dunces have completely overlooked or missed. Probably in all of baseball in all of its cumulative brain power and enlightnenment does not equal yours or they would have spoken about this long ago. Wow! A hunk with a mind, whatever will God think of next!

by Agatha Payne (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 50 comments) on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 9:49:03 PM

Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Professor Emeritus Peter BagnoloProfessor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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In my...

Aggie, In my forthcoming novel; THE UNIVERSAL TRAVELERS AND WHY THEY WOULDN'T STAY HOME AND WASH THEIR DISHES, Conservatism in it's extreme forms, Fascism and Naziism, are the result of a virus that shrinks the brain, and a certain appendage, and disables the conscience and empathy, resulting in rage and impotence, which is likely true. The treatment for it is quarantining in mental institutions for life. For the more aggressive ones they drop them on a deserted island with half the amount of food needed for their numbers and twice the arms and ammunition.

Thanks for reading and writing, mom. (Just kidding

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1311 comments) on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 10:08:09 PM

A liberal American, PhD mathematician, bipedal Earthling.
W. Christopher Epler (Bill)A liberal American, PhD mathematician, bipedal Earthling.

aliens

Prof,

I know this has already been looked into to some degree, but we need a more comprehensive model for the conservative/fasict/Nazi mindset. Genetics, for example, and neurology. And if you want to REALLY get out there, philosophical ontology, since one could argue that hard core fascists are a different ontological spicies.

Of course this would supplement sociology and psychology, but sociology and psychology just AIN'T ENOUGH (it's fun to write "ain't"). It's like trying to account for Mercury's precession with Newtonian mechanics. YOU JUST CAN'T DO IT. We needed to stretch to an Einsten relativity perspecive.

These "beings" are FUNDAMENTALLY different from rational, caring humans. I would argue that they are literally a different species, but species here must mean more than biology.

Jesus, "Ye shall judge them by thier fruits," is another way to say this. Fruits SO different must come from a similarly different tree. Figs don't grow on thistles is saying the same thing backwards.

Hey, are the aliens already here?

Bill

ps. I'm considering writing the an extensive piece on all this stuff. You gotta admit, if there's a particle of truth to it (and I'm TOTALLY convinced there is) it certainly puts the human condtion into a more n-dimensional perspecive --and the more dimensions the better so far as I'm concerned, since the consensus reality mindset which is the conditioned "thinking about point of view" of our species is pretty candyass.

Gee, it doesn't even realize that when a tree falls in the forest and there isn't any nearby auditory nervous sysem, there ISN"T any sound (in other words, sound = hearing, just as you don't view the view since viewing IS the view). By I digress . . .

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (251 articles, 53 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 599 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 4:46:42 PM

Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Professor Emeritus Peter BagnoloProfessor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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That is amazing, Bill

That very thought is a part of the essense of my novel:

THE UNIVERSAL TRAVLERS AND WHY THEY WOULDN'T STAY HOME AND WASH THEIR DISHES!

Coming in 2008. The disease is called the Incubus Virus and it attacks the mind and destroys the conscience, but only is successful with a willing host, Watch for it.

Pete

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1311 comments) on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 5:31:28 PM