I sometimes go to this speech center during Noon on Wednesday's called Toastmasters. At social settings, most people that I interact with will go to the work ethic card for whatever reasons to defend or dismiss people. This is true in groups that you try to fit into. They try to use their upbringing or discipline to push you out. The one thing I know is that most people aren't like Brad Pitt in "Fight Club." Put a mob on them, they will back off. They don't trust their discipline or hard-work against mob authority. Most will say that they have family or someone to protect when they only care about themselves.
This is from the man who says, "To be a champion, you must work harder than work itself." Hearing this kind of commentary, scare me to death even now as well as then. Ivan Lendl was a hell of player and a intellectual, warrior on the tennis court. His opponents were not only concerned about his game, his shot-making skills, patience, and power, they were concerned about his work ethic. When he entered tennis 1978, he started to make comments like the one above as well as this at this paraphrase, "if I don't practice well then I won't play well."
Work-ethic trash talkers will simply dismiss as something as "Life" or "things they can't control" card. Most of them though, will always look at people who they perceive don't work hard and have a lot to say but about 9'11, they shut up. Lot of them, will use I do the best as I can crap. These folks are selfish but scared who know their place like Lendl. However, Ivan Lendl is willing to "work harder than work itself" to move up.
Likewise with Lendl, you could not put American Idol's to keep him in line like with other bullies. Ivan didn't get along with Czech Authorities or the people of Czechoslovakia. They wanted him to lose because he had become a capitalist and sold himself out to America. Therefore, when he lost to matches to Borg, McEnroe, Connors, and Wilander, they were happy because the betrayer was kept in line. Sounds familiar with minorities here, huh.
He could have have used that "I played my best line" which he did but he got better and won. Americans didn't like him because he was boring, cold, and arrogant. They called him Ivan "The Terrible" because he humiliated so many American players (arrogant and charismatic ones as well as the hard-working and patient ones) and did it with a punkish attitude.
Ivan respected and embraced people who worked harder than him which is what kept him from going under when he lost a lot of big matches. Unlike a lot of bullies, he picked on people that he could beat and embraced the challenge of beating the best. Very few bullies can make that transition of beating their own and the best. Eventually, he did with Connors and McEnroe.
After getting out of tennis due to back injuries, respect has come slow as unfortunately guys like McEnroe are in the broadcasting booth while Ivan is living at home raising German shepherds, raising a family, and playing golf. Even his born country doesn't give him respect like let say Martina (not even she does). Hey, Peter Bodo he is from Czechoslovakia. Conservative critics don't want to say nothing because Ivan has tapped into their prejudices of what a conservative champion should be like, English-American and Ivan wasn't. He is Czech-American. Ivan does not care because he won and beat the best doing it his way.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Alumni & the Dream
Man oh Man. Gentile Assholes of all colors, sexes, and religions really piss me off like hell. They cut you off conversations or group involvement. Give you vibe cuts, stares and glares. Get angry with them, they shoot it down or snob it up but mention the word-- Either they find religion, get angry for discovering their spiritual kryptonite or stop being assholes. Hypocrites.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
WNBA (Women's No Business Allowed)
If you look at the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) marketing partners they are products oriented for men: Gatorade, Addidas, Nike, Ocean Spray, and others. You will see companies that are omnisex like State Farm, Southwest Airlines, and T-Mobile as well as ABC and ESPN. There are also Toyota, Discover, Kohler, and AOL to round the marketing for the WNBA.
One glaring ommision is that there seems to be a lack of women oriented products and companies that are partners with the WNBA. For a league that has been in existence for 12 years, this is very surprising. However, if you look at the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) same thing. You see Gatorade, Bed and Bath, Dubai Duty Free, and Whirlpool. Finally, you see hotel companies, Wilson, and Travelex.
Yet, you don't see women products like hair, makeup, clothing/fashion, and other women oriented products. Why? I have contacted and written letters to stores like Marshalls, Target, Sears, J.C. Penny, K-Mart, jewelery stores, and other products and stores that cater to women. No can do. A Marshall's business representive said they aren't interested and wish the "WNBA well in their business endeavors."
I point this out and I'm called sexist when I made my speech about this issue. But the paper trail and money says that I'm right. Women fans don't like women in sports like they do in men's sports which is few in general unless it is their family member. You would be suprised that more men seem to attend women's athletic events than women in tennis, golf, and basketball.
Main point: women are sexist to their own!
One glaring ommision is that there seems to be a lack of women oriented products and companies that are partners with the WNBA. For a league that has been in existence for 12 years, this is very surprising. However, if you look at the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) same thing. You see Gatorade, Bed and Bath, Dubai Duty Free, and Whirlpool. Finally, you see hotel companies, Wilson, and Travelex.
Yet, you don't see women products like hair, makeup, clothing/fashion, and other women oriented products. Why? I have contacted and written letters to stores like Marshalls, Target, Sears, J.C. Penny, K-Mart, jewelery stores, and other products and stores that cater to women. No can do. A Marshall's business representive said they aren't interested and wish the "WNBA well in their business endeavors."
I point this out and I'm called sexist when I made my speech about this issue. But the paper trail and money says that I'm right. Women fans don't like women in sports like they do in men's sports which is few in general unless it is their family member. You would be suprised that more men seem to attend women's athletic events than women in tennis, golf, and basketball.
Main point: women are sexist to their own!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Mom go get your cataracts
My real mother is debating of whether to have lasic surgery on her eyes. My sister wants me to call her because she seems to listen to me. Whatever? Mom doesn't even to listen to herself maybe the voices.
When I talk to her, she always wants company so if you have the money, visit her. If you want to visit my mother and tell her to get her cataracts done: The village is in Manachai near Karakuidi. It is about 250 miles from Chennai. Here is the address:
When I talk to her, she always wants company so if you have the money, visit her. If you want to visit my mother and tell her to get her cataracts done: The village is in Manachai near Karakuidi. It is about 250 miles from Chennai. Here is the address:
S. Sivagami
K.M. SP House
Manachai
Vadagudi Post
P.M. District
Tamilnadu, India.
No numbers. She is hard of hearing and suffering various ailments to her body. She can hardly walk but if you visit her tell her that Davan sent her. To you perves and psychos, she'll talk to but let me warn you, not. You can learn it for yourself like I did. LOL. May the curse be with you.
Monday, March 31, 2008
ESPN Women's basketball commentary
I enjoy watching Nancy Lieberman and Pam Ward do commentary on women's basketball forESPN. Beth Mowins and Debbie Antonelli were the prime commentators for many years but Pam and Nancy have taken over. Pam's awkwardness works with Nancy. Like Elgin Baylor and his famous twitch that got him and Jerry West open. Nancy has a way of stepping in and rolling off her phrases and sentences with a comment of her own but allowing Pam to move on. That is what makes them standout. Pure Poetry! Lots of energy and honesty without the Simon Crowell enjoyment of being an antagonist.
With the second-half about to begin or out of a break, I really enjoy the preparation, talent, and work ethic put into the game by Nancy and Pam. There is mutual respect without the backhands. Their minds are pumping like coaches during timeouts. With other commentators, the game usually creates that effect due to the communion with the crowd, closeness of the game, and rival perspectives. With women's basketball, the game hasn't garnered that crowd excitement, close games are viewed like blowouts, and rivals are meaningless. Yet, Pam and Nancy make the game enjoyable because of their many perspectives (coaching, playing, interviewing, training, reporting, and selling) and how to process that info as it relates to the game at task. The excitement of the game elevates just by those two. Sort of like Billy Packer and the late Jim Thacker when they did ACC basketball during the 70's.
Pam and Nancy can think and respond to each other two plays ahead is what makes them so effective. This allows them to use pauses effectively while maintaining energy because their minds are working. Whereas other broadcasters, it is dead air and you see them react defensively and burn themselves out. Likewise, they can make adjustments when things aren't working due to their preparation but understanding their roles as a team in situations and how to react to them offensively. They maintain a high-level but an even-keel energy throughout their broadcasts.
A good studio team is needed to feed off Nancy and Pam's magic. Stacy Dales, Trey Wingo, and Kara Lawson agree too much. Which is fine but they lack perspective because they are too young to be studio hosts. Very mature but unless they had a father or a mother who was a player and is willing to embrace the past like the Alberts, it doesn't work. For instance, Stephen Curry really absorbs history well but Tameka Catchings doesn't. Now, Stacy and Kara as well as Doris Burke who occasionally comes in are all in the now and go. ESPN shouldn't try to change them but get them to blend with Nancy and Pam. The studio will have a less dead feel and have more of a livelier effect.
Stacy and Kara are hungry for knowledge as well as Trey but ESPN is not helping them at all. Pam and Nancy can do both but they are needed on the court not the studio. Also, Beth what is up with you on the sideline and and Debbie, working with Dave Pasch?
Postscript: I just loved the way Heather Cox handled the joy of Candice Wiggins after she got Stanford into the Final Four. When Heather started to ask questions, Candice was speechless and felt bad about it. She started to deprecate herself in front of Heather and the camera. Instead of annoyance or pity, Heather calmly reassured her, stuck with Candice's emotion without interference and added words to the scene when necessary. Great job!
With the second-half about to begin or out of a break, I really enjoy the preparation, talent, and work ethic put into the game by Nancy and Pam. There is mutual respect without the backhands. Their minds are pumping like coaches during timeouts. With other commentators, the game usually creates that effect due to the communion with the crowd, closeness of the game, and rival perspectives. With women's basketball, the game hasn't garnered that crowd excitement, close games are viewed like blowouts, and rivals are meaningless. Yet, Pam and Nancy make the game enjoyable because of their many perspectives (coaching, playing, interviewing, training, reporting, and selling) and how to process that info as it relates to the game at task. The excitement of the game elevates just by those two. Sort of like Billy Packer and the late Jim Thacker when they did ACC basketball during the 70's.
Pam and Nancy can think and respond to each other two plays ahead is what makes them so effective. This allows them to use pauses effectively while maintaining energy because their minds are working. Whereas other broadcasters, it is dead air and you see them react defensively and burn themselves out. Likewise, they can make adjustments when things aren't working due to their preparation but understanding their roles as a team in situations and how to react to them offensively. They maintain a high-level but an even-keel energy throughout their broadcasts.
A good studio team is needed to feed off Nancy and Pam's magic. Stacy Dales, Trey Wingo, and Kara Lawson agree too much. Which is fine but they lack perspective because they are too young to be studio hosts. Very mature but unless they had a father or a mother who was a player and is willing to embrace the past like the Alberts, it doesn't work. For instance, Stephen Curry really absorbs history well but Tameka Catchings doesn't. Now, Stacy and Kara as well as Doris Burke who occasionally comes in are all in the now and go. ESPN shouldn't try to change them but get them to blend with Nancy and Pam. The studio will have a less dead feel and have more of a livelier effect.
Stacy and Kara are hungry for knowledge as well as Trey but ESPN is not helping them at all. Pam and Nancy can do both but they are needed on the court not the studio. Also, Beth what is up with you on the sideline and and Debbie, working with Dave Pasch?
Postscript: I just loved the way Heather Cox handled the joy of Candice Wiggins after she got Stanford into the Final Four. When Heather started to ask questions, Candice was speechless and felt bad about it. She started to deprecate herself in front of Heather and the camera. Instead of annoyance or pity, Heather calmly reassured her, stuck with Candice's emotion without interference and added words to the scene when necessary. Great job!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Dependent mafia in the USA?
American people are willing to fight against Terrorists groups that do harm to others but not terrorist groups that harms others in their own homeland. You have gangsters like the Sicilian Mafia, Russian-Judeo mafia, Irish, Hispanic, Latino, Black, Indians, Jamaicans, Nigerians, East Asians, Albanians, Eastern European, Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, and more to come. My point is these folks are outsiders and immigrants. With the exception of Russian-Judeo mob, most of these mobs inflict harm on their own groups unless somebody crossed over their side without permission or wasn't an invite. The FBI mostly has a line over them. Even the most powerful gangsters are nothing but an FBI snitch bitch to pay off the government.
When I lived in Charlotte, illegal teen prostitution was going on amongst Chinese immigrants. These girls were brought to homes and catered at parties. These homes were next to gung-ho patriots who "would die if any foreigner would do harm to the innocent" bull. In Atlanta, it was the same thing with those massage parlors. I went there a couple of times and those girls looked way too young. Luckily my functions didn't last long but my rep did. Word got around about my adventures at my workplace at the time. Thanks Maria and Miss Grande for your sarcasm.
Eventually, those places were shutdown by surveillance. I went to the American side of the parlors where the girls were older for awhile. Yet, I always wondered concerning the Chinese ones why they were open despite cops being there? Another co-worker asked why don't I go after girls who pay $20 dollars off the street. I simply thought because "no protection". If it wasn't sex with these groups, it was drugs, gambling, or cheap labor. The group would only house their own to control.
In other places, you see country clubs or corporations hire minority workers than their own people but it had to be connection style. Not the immigrant bull of a dumb naive, English illiterate who asked for a job. You have the liaison or middle-person who worked the gambit like mafia. The head boss wouldn't know or didn't care who the workers were as long as they were efficient at their jobs. That was true with people who had their homes fixed by illegal workers or their homes cleaned.
In my observations, the strain I notice is the liasion having to pay for workers and to make sure they are paid efficiently. The liasion is in a vulnerable position to take the easy way out of bribing workers to work for free by threatening deportation or ask for compromising favors. The low workers can't exactly go to the big boss man if mistreatment occurs because big boss is a vulnerable position himself of hiring these workers.
Public opinion is very complex in this situation. There is outrage but it is not cohesive. If a sucessful immigrant has a John the Baptist American covering, Americans will be afraid to inflict their opinion to the top but wait when the immigrant runs out of favor. Small time bosses can forget trying this tactic without connecting themselves with "Mr. Baptist" If people try to mess with him, they are usually gone or keep to themselves and let things pass. This is true in bigger cities, country club resorts, and the burbs. Oh, but who is the real gangster, John the Baptist or the Feds on ATM?
In short, Americans are potent in fighting minorities and whites regardless of status but are impotent in fighting minorities and whites of stature and power.
When I lived in Charlotte, illegal teen prostitution was going on amongst Chinese immigrants. These girls were brought to homes and catered at parties. These homes were next to gung-ho patriots who "would die if any foreigner would do harm to the innocent" bull. In Atlanta, it was the same thing with those massage parlors. I went there a couple of times and those girls looked way too young. Luckily my functions didn't last long but my rep did. Word got around about my adventures at my workplace at the time. Thanks Maria and Miss Grande for your sarcasm.
Eventually, those places were shutdown by surveillance. I went to the American side of the parlors where the girls were older for awhile. Yet, I always wondered concerning the Chinese ones why they were open despite cops being there? Another co-worker asked why don't I go after girls who pay $20 dollars off the street. I simply thought because "no protection". If it wasn't sex with these groups, it was drugs, gambling, or cheap labor. The group would only house their own to control.
In other places, you see country clubs or corporations hire minority workers than their own people but it had to be connection style. Not the immigrant bull of a dumb naive, English illiterate who asked for a job. You have the liaison or middle-person who worked the gambit like mafia. The head boss wouldn't know or didn't care who the workers were as long as they were efficient at their jobs. That was true with people who had their homes fixed by illegal workers or their homes cleaned.
In my observations, the strain I notice is the liasion having to pay for workers and to make sure they are paid efficiently. The liasion is in a vulnerable position to take the easy way out of bribing workers to work for free by threatening deportation or ask for compromising favors. The low workers can't exactly go to the big boss man if mistreatment occurs because big boss is a vulnerable position himself of hiring these workers.
Public opinion is very complex in this situation. There is outrage but it is not cohesive. If a sucessful immigrant has a John the Baptist American covering, Americans will be afraid to inflict their opinion to the top but wait when the immigrant runs out of favor. Small time bosses can forget trying this tactic without connecting themselves with "Mr. Baptist" If people try to mess with him, they are usually gone or keep to themselves and let things pass. This is true in bigger cities, country club resorts, and the burbs. Oh, but who is the real gangster, John the Baptist or the Feds on ATM?
In short, Americans are potent in fighting minorities and whites regardless of status but are impotent in fighting minorities and whites of stature and power.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Digger Phelps critique
Great job, Diggs! You actually spoke during a highlight of a women's game. But you sucked on purpose.
When Stacy is talking to you, meet her question--sort of like you telling the players to meet the ball. You dragged ass. Yeah, you answered her question. Half-assed. Oh gee, you brought some credible information about Connecticut. Even a dumb ass could have said that Connecticut is going all the way. But you don't believe that. You are just throwing up a heave to shut critics up.
You are a researcher and when you do yresearch: you bring pros and cons to teams and how they utilize them against other team with pros and cons. Then you break it down the middle. At least that is how you do with the men's team. Instead, you gave flat answers without any "ball movement" involving your other hosts. You acted like George McGinnis in the 77 finals who didn't get others involved except when the game is close and use Rece as a bail out crutch like George did with Mike Dunleavy in tight situations.
Now that Bobby Knight is on your side, I think Bobby is less sexist than the media is given credit for women's basketball (yes, he is an admitted misogynist). I believe he is willing to critique "inbounds play" of Pat Summitt teams from the past and now the future. Bobby would talk about how the players would use steady pressure to get them to crack under pressure in the 80's and 90's. But with the progress of better players and athletes, Pat Summitt has to get after the inbounder a little more tenaciously. I believe he would use tapes and study them to prove his point. He does like basketball whether women or men play it. His wife is a former basketball coach.
When Stacy is talking to you, meet her question--sort of like you telling the players to meet the ball. You dragged ass. Yeah, you answered her question. Half-assed. Oh gee, you brought some credible information about Connecticut. Even a dumb ass could have said that Connecticut is going all the way. But you don't believe that. You are just throwing up a heave to shut critics up.
You are a researcher and when you do yresearch: you bring pros and cons to teams and how they utilize them against other team with pros and cons. Then you break it down the middle. At least that is how you do with the men's team. Instead, you gave flat answers without any "ball movement" involving your other hosts. You acted like George McGinnis in the 77 finals who didn't get others involved except when the game is close and use Rece as a bail out crutch like George did with Mike Dunleavy in tight situations.
Now that Bobby Knight is on your side, I think Bobby is less sexist than the media is given credit for women's basketball (yes, he is an admitted misogynist). I believe he is willing to critique "inbounds play" of Pat Summitt teams from the past and now the future. Bobby would talk about how the players would use steady pressure to get them to crack under pressure in the 80's and 90's. But with the progress of better players and athletes, Pat Summitt has to get after the inbounder a little more tenaciously. I believe he would use tapes and study them to prove his point. He does like basketball whether women or men play it. His wife is a former basketball coach.
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