'Unbearable attention whores'
You had a good run Utah fans. You got the entire nation in a lather over the way the BCS is dumping on the Utes. You distracted the country momentarily from the miserable condition the nation is in.But it's over now. San Francisco Chronicle and CBSSports columnist Ray Ratto (is that name for real?) proclaims:
Supporting BCS is cool if only to foil pandering polsSure, Ratto (who has gotten 277 emails from "hyper-polite loons," a.k.a. Utes fans) is excruciatingly ugly, but he does have a point:
. . . now Utah's best public servants are feverishly involving themselves in the degradation of grandstanding. Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah recently wrote President-Elect Barack (Bear) Obama a letter concerning the possibility of the BCS violating antitrust laws, and the state's attorney general, Mark Shurtleff, is allegedly in the process of reviewing the BCS to see if it operates in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Government officials fighting the good fight on a subject that affects only people who could vote for them or contribute to their future political aspirations ... perfect.
The unprincipled creepy swine.
Yeah, you, Matheson, and you, Shurtleff, and you [Texas Congressman] Joe Barton, too. You, who wouldn't have given a forty-third of a damn if your team had benefited from the BCS, or if you'd come from North Dakota or Maine. You grandstanding brutes. . . .
. . . here's a vote not only for the BCS, but for shutting the hell up.
5 Comments:
You're right Glen, the poor bastard is even uglier than you!
The best thing that will come from Utah's undefeated season is that the hacks that call themselves sports journalists will have their BCS complicity exposed once and for all. They are no better than the greedy university president's who foisted this mess upon us in the first place or the shameless pandering politians and wouldn't know a principled stand if it bit them in the @$$.
I saw this headline and thought it was gonna be about Ed Smart...
I was wondering when a San Fran paper would rain on Utah's parade.
From KSL.com
Shurtleff argues a conspiracy to exclude non-BCS athletes may amount to the creation of a monopoly.
BCS schools get more money by the millions, more attention, better stadiums and better recruits. Investigators will look at BCS rules, statistics and, of course, follow the money. Shurtleff hopes the right pressure will lead to a better system without legal action. He says, "Bottom line: Is there a system in place that is monopolistic and fundamentally unfair?"
Perhaps as a warmup to making an antitrust complaint against the BCS, maybe Shurtleff can look at the Republicans and Democrats cartelization of politics, and how electoral rules create disparate election results, and disproportionate receipt of state tax checkoff funds by non-incumbent political parties such as the Greens and Libertarians.
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