i'll share my huge sports related rant on tumblr with you lot

lol but honestly if you think putting armstrong’s head on a stick is gunna solve anything, you are surely mistaken

i just laugh in your general direction

like i’ve lectured time & time again to people, the system is broken & people will ALWAYS cheat

like newsflash, even in the “gold old days” people cheated; don’t romanticize that shit it totally happened

our mindset as a society is broken because the ends usually justify the means until those in charge decide otherwise in a situation that would benefit them also

“making an example” isn’t going to work

countless other cyclists under armstrong doped, & yet THEY won’t be penalized?  just because THEY don’t have the titles & the jerseys & the foundations & the like?

oh & we’ll go after barry bonds with SO MUCH fervor, but not even care about everyone else who did with equal fervor or even @ all?  just because HE has the accolades?  just because HE’s the big man?

the system hypes them & feeds them & then disposes of them when they don’t make money anymore

& the system disposes of those choice cheaters to make themselves look good after years of being in the wrong in a last ditch effort to gain some morals points

it’s pretty hypocritical to turn a blind eye for YEARS & then JUST NOW decide to give a shit

you’re not fooling anyone, system; you want the entertainment & profit no matter what

you’ll turn that blind eye when the money’s good because you want WINS; you want CASH; you want tv deals & new stadiums & all those butts in the stands; you want ALL the glory so you’ll accept cheating

we’re encouraged to cheat in so many ways in our society, not just in sports

there’s a cheating spectrum & it’s upheld for the most part

so if you REALLY want to abolish cheating, system, you gotta start with yourself

you gotta start with how we teach our kids to play “the game,” down to the smallest levels of little league

because even then they’re conditioned into all these superteams to win win win win & sacrifice their bodies & theirselves for the good of the team [i mean shit sometimes i wonder if they’re even having any fun any more with all the set plays & specialization that those expensive ass travel teams incorporate.  & then all these child athletes grow up with is sports sports sports sports - wtf happens when the sports career ends & they haven’t learned anything else about life?  oh wait i actually know the answer to that question, but that’s another rant]

we love those sacrifcing plays - the hockey players taking “one for the team” & playing with dislocated scapulas, knees shot to hell, concussion-like symptoms that nobody even knows about, & broken ribs - we laud them as heroes, but @ the same time they’ve learned not to value their own bodies; they learn that they are disposable unless they do what’s best for the team

it’s okay if they end up paralyzed - because they helped the team win & that’s all that matters to them

so of COURSE they’ll cheat, all to help their team win because that’s what’s been hammered into their heads - you are nothing unless you win; you are nothing unless you win; you are nothing unless you win

even mediocre high school athletes feel this pressure - what good am i if i can’t contribute?  what’s the point if i can’t help the team win?

& then we have the star athletes getting so much pressure from their coaches, their teammates, the press, the fans, the sponsors, to PERFORM PERFORM PERFORM so they’ll take those enhancing performancing shit - so they can work out harder & produce

because those kinds of drugs don’t just MAGICALLY let you become barry bonds - you gotta want it

& they do

& there’s nothing WRONG per se with wanting to win & wanting to do well - we ALL want to win & want to do well, but then drugs are supposedly BAD but then the drugs are helping you get your goal but then drugs are bad & you’re a horrible person but then how else are you supposed to attain the ungodly numbers that everyone wants you to get?  or keep up those unfathomable numbers for a sustainable period of time?  what the fuck else are you supposed to do?

because when you’re “normal,” when you’re actually human, you’re not GOOD enough

that .205 ain’t gunna do shit, why aren’t you hitting .300?  where’s the hat trick every night?  where’s the 50 points we’re paying you for?  the fuck do you MEAN you’re overwhelmed?  pussys get overwhelmed.  oh you want a psychologist?  the FUCk do you need that for?  we’re paying you for big numbers for big numbers so shut the fuck up & do it

or even worse you’re that guy on the edge, job’s on the line.  you have to contribute or else DFA or else you’re cut or else you have to try to find another job, but what the fuck can you do if you’ve been conditioned into the sports ethic & sports is all you know & sports is all you’re good @ & you didn’t go to fucking college, you just went straight to the bigs, & you barely even skated thru high school - what the fuck do you do now?

& of course even more common, you’re in this high school football team that’s on the edge of something & you feel like the entire world is on your shoulder’s cuz it is - you can’t afford to go to college unless you get a scholarship & you can’t get a scholarship unless you team does good & you look good & even then it probably won’t be a full-ride, but you don’t know that.  you just hang on to that dream & you take whatever you can & hope it’s good enough.  because you can’t go to the NFL without being on a good college team, but granted you still have to make THAT team.  & even if you’re in the NFL, there’s no guarantees that you’ll stay there for very long or even make it @ all & you have all this pressure & all this uncertainty & you’re only 16 years-old

& if you make it to college & get caught up in the college bowl money machine you’ll have even more pressure on your shoulders to perform perform - you’re not a student-athlete, you are an ATHLETE who happens to be a student; your grades go to hell because you have to train train train train & you need to do well because ALL the funds for the school rest on YOUR football team & if you don’t do well, there goes that scholarship & there goes your college funding & there goes everything you ever want; but in college you’re supposed to be finding yourself, not having a job & you won’t see any of the sales of your jerseys or your likeness on a video game, even tho you’re struggling thru student debt - they don’t give a shit about you, they just want you to win

you see the confusion you’re creating, system?  i even went on a few tangents that are ADDITIONAL problems cuz all you owners out there who just think in the now & don’t look @ the consequences?  you’ve made this problem, just like every other problem

good job