good dolphin wrote:
tommy wrote:
Beardown wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
I would think that Kap, of all people, would respect someone trying to grind out a living and would be the kind of guy who found dignity in all work.
I agree. If Rosie didn't want this to be known, shame on Kap for mentioning it. And obviously Rosie didn't want it to be known. Because nobody knew I assume. I mean publicly.
There is no shame in it. It's the opposite. It's noble that Rosie is doing a job to make a few bucks since media turned him away. At his age, he can't do much more than this. Which is fine.
But I think Kap mentioned it to kind of humiliate Rosie. I think that makes him a dick.Tough luck. Rosenbloom is a jag who takes potshots at everyone and has horrible baseball thoughts.
Fuck that man. You don't joke about a guy on the balls of his ass so badly that he's forced to work for minimum wage in his 60s. That's tragic, not funny and we could all be in the same position if things broke wrong. Rosenbloom is pretty good in the mechanics of writing with good academic credentials and a very good professional resume. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. There's a lot of people's industries that won't outlive their need to work.
I rarely disagree with you, but eff him. He's not much different from Jay Mariotti--a real flip-flopper. I've been in similar situations as Rosie, and it sucks, but he'll live. He was acerbic the way Terry Boers used to be in the Trib, but not funny. He was going after Wanny ten years later. He also ripped on Paul Konerko after his first two years in Chicago (both successful years), and I think that's what pisses me off the most.
(A few minutes pass.) God damnit. You are right.
I like the point you are making here. It
is tragic. And now I feel pretty bad. Actually, the more I think about it, the worse I feel. I'd erase my comments above if it weren't for his blindness on Konerko. But yeah, I feel bad for the guy, and anyone in that position.
See, this is why I come here--for the pricks and prods to my conscience and rhetorical acumen. (
Pricks probably isn't best word.) The opportunities for such growth are limited in today's society once you leave school--if you go to a good one, that is. (And yes, I'm being serious.)