He had a distinctive booming voice that nearly everyone will recognize. One of his sidelights was voice acting. He was the voice of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger for several years.
Lee Marshall WAS GRRREAT!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Wrestling Loses Another
Lee Marshall wasn't as famous as Ultimate Warrior, but as an announcer he gave the AWA the professionalism it needed once Mean Gene Okerland left for the greener pastures of WWE. He later joined WCW in their glory years.
He had a distinctive booming voice that nearly everyone will recognize. One of his sidelights was voice acting. He was the voice of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger for several years.
Lee Marshall WAS GRRREAT!
He had a distinctive booming voice that nearly everyone will recognize. One of his sidelights was voice acting. He was the voice of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger for several years.
Lee Marshall WAS GRRREAT!
Baseball Without a Dome
Riddle: When is a baseball field not a baseball field?
Answer: When it rains.
Or when it snows for that matter.
I was warning of this since Target Field opened. Some year, and this may be THE year, the Twins will be forced to play an inordinate number of double-headers at the end of the season, destroying their bullpen, and their playoff hopes as well.
It's been three days since the Twins played a baseball game.
And counting.
Answer: When it rains.
Or when it snows for that matter.
I was warning of this since Target Field opened. Some year, and this may be THE year, the Twins will be forced to play an inordinate number of double-headers at the end of the season, destroying their bullpen, and their playoff hopes as well.
It's been three days since the Twins played a baseball game.
And counting.
Follow Up
The NBA banned Sterling yesterday.
I like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's broader take on the subject.
http://toprightnews.com/?p=2777
I like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's broader take on the subject.
http://toprightnews.com/?p=2777
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Wild Win
For those of you who follow ice soccer, the Wild won again last night, forcing a game seven.
Go Wild!
Go Wild!
Tolerance
I wasn't sure if I was going to write about the latest controversy in the NBA. Donald Sterling, owner of the Clippers allegedly made some racist remarks reflecting his deep seated beliefs.
The sports world has responded and many are calling for him to lose his team.
Wow.
It's very hard to live in America today. We can't even agree on what's wrong. Or if something is wrong, how severely said offense should be punished.
Let's take a step back and examine morality as a whole. There's a large group of Americans that believe there is an absolute standard for right and wrong that isn't determined by the law of the land or majority opinion. Those people are not in the majority and they believe that God and his Word means more than our ever-vacillating rules of order. At the same time, they realize that man-made laws are to be followed unless they clearly contradict what God has stated to the contrary.
The Bible is their standard. It teaches love and respect of others, but also punishment for the unrepentant. In a society where words have often lost their meaning those two words, "love" and "respect" sadly have to be defined. Love means desiring God's best for them. You want for everyone what God wants for them. Respect means that you will never think of yourself as better than someone else.
Even many so-called Christians don't understand these simple concepts. A demonstration of love is realizing we're all in the same boat. We aren't better than anyone else. We never were. We never will be.
That's why we are instructed not to steal from others, or lie to them, or to kill them. We learn that hating them is, in a very real sense, equal to killing them.
The Bible summed it up in what has been commonly called the golden rule. We are to love God with everything we have (heart, mind, soul, spirit, possessions) and to treat all others as well as we already treat ourselves.
Where we're different, as Christians, is that we accepted God's gracious offer of repentance. To demonstrate that we understand THAT concept we have to be willing to forgive others if they ask for forgiveness.
I'm afraid that concept of forgiveness is quickly forgotten when it comes to judging others. And that's how I see the situation currently.
The media and player representatives are demanding the stiffest of penalties (Sterling losing the team) in a quick rush to judgement without even determining guilt or giving him an opportunity to change his way of thinking.
In effect, they are rushing their condemnation of him because they can. They aren't giving him a chance to change.
America doesn't even have a law against being racist in thought. And I think that's a good thing. Our laws punish actions not beliefs. That's why there are lots of laws against discrimination. We CAN punish inappropriate actions. We SHOULD NOT punish thought. That's the slippery slope I don't want to be involved in.
IF Sterling used his inappropriate beliefs to discriminate against those in his organization (in the legal sense of the word) then he should be punished according to the law of the land. Safeguards are already in place for that.
If anyone wants to take it further than that, I feel like those outraged are merely forming a lynch mob of epic proportions. America's had enough lynch mobs.
No one is preaching love and tolerance and respect in this outrage.
They should. Even people who are wrong deserve a chance to see where they are wrong.
God gave me that chance.
The sports world has responded and many are calling for him to lose his team.
Wow.
It's very hard to live in America today. We can't even agree on what's wrong. Or if something is wrong, how severely said offense should be punished.
Let's take a step back and examine morality as a whole. There's a large group of Americans that believe there is an absolute standard for right and wrong that isn't determined by the law of the land or majority opinion. Those people are not in the majority and they believe that God and his Word means more than our ever-vacillating rules of order. At the same time, they realize that man-made laws are to be followed unless they clearly contradict what God has stated to the contrary.
The Bible is their standard. It teaches love and respect of others, but also punishment for the unrepentant. In a society where words have often lost their meaning those two words, "love" and "respect" sadly have to be defined. Love means desiring God's best for them. You want for everyone what God wants for them. Respect means that you will never think of yourself as better than someone else.
Even many so-called Christians don't understand these simple concepts. A demonstration of love is realizing we're all in the same boat. We aren't better than anyone else. We never were. We never will be.
That's why we are instructed not to steal from others, or lie to them, or to kill them. We learn that hating them is, in a very real sense, equal to killing them.
The Bible summed it up in what has been commonly called the golden rule. We are to love God with everything we have (heart, mind, soul, spirit, possessions) and to treat all others as well as we already treat ourselves.
Where we're different, as Christians, is that we accepted God's gracious offer of repentance. To demonstrate that we understand THAT concept we have to be willing to forgive others if they ask for forgiveness.
I'm afraid that concept of forgiveness is quickly forgotten when it comes to judging others. And that's how I see the situation currently.
The media and player representatives are demanding the stiffest of penalties (Sterling losing the team) in a quick rush to judgement without even determining guilt or giving him an opportunity to change his way of thinking.
In effect, they are rushing their condemnation of him because they can. They aren't giving him a chance to change.
America doesn't even have a law against being racist in thought. And I think that's a good thing. Our laws punish actions not beliefs. That's why there are lots of laws against discrimination. We CAN punish inappropriate actions. We SHOULD NOT punish thought. That's the slippery slope I don't want to be involved in.
IF Sterling used his inappropriate beliefs to discriminate against those in his organization (in the legal sense of the word) then he should be punished according to the law of the land. Safeguards are already in place for that.
If anyone wants to take it further than that, I feel like those outraged are merely forming a lynch mob of epic proportions. America's had enough lynch mobs.
No one is preaching love and tolerance and respect in this outrage.
They should. Even people who are wrong deserve a chance to see where they are wrong.
God gave me that chance.
Record Starting Pitchers
The Twins may have been rained out on Sunday, but that didn't stop the league from having a record setting day. 10 starters went at least 7 innings giving up three hits or less.
That's never been done before. It shows that the quality of major league starters is at an all-time high.
Insert your own Minnesota joke here.
I'll just add that if Minnesota had played, the record wouldn't have been any higher.
That's never been done before. It shows that the quality of major league starters is at an all-time high.
Insert your own Minnesota joke here.
I'll just add that if Minnesota had played, the record wouldn't have been any higher.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Jose Abreau
I've been watching this 27-year old rookie from Cuba since the opening series the Twins had with the White Sox. He's been having a season BETTER than Chris Collabello.
Yesterday he drove in his 31st RBI of the season to take the major league lead in that category. That's an all-time rookie record for RBI in a month. He also currently leads the majors in homeruns with 10. This is why I like baseball, where the Yankees signed this supposed superstar pitcher from Japan for unbelievably big money, Chicago quietly signed this Cuban import. And Jose Abreau is setting the league on fire with his bat. One month does not a career make. But my guess is every team in the league is really jealous of the White Sox right now.
I know I'm jealous, and I hope he has a monstrous year and career.
Yesterday he drove in his 31st RBI of the season to take the major league lead in that category. That's an all-time rookie record for RBI in a month. He also currently leads the majors in homeruns with 10. This is why I like baseball, where the Yankees signed this supposed superstar pitcher from Japan for unbelievably big money, Chicago quietly signed this Cuban import. And Jose Abreau is setting the league on fire with his bat. One month does not a career make. But my guess is every team in the league is really jealous of the White Sox right now.
I know I'm jealous, and I hope he has a monstrous year and career.
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