Player A

by thejew4u on Mar 7, 2008 1:27 PM PST

Huge front page coverage on Player A's recent personal issues in today's USA Today. You always hate to see someone go through something this terrible, but with slight pangs of guilt I like to think this could be karmic retribution for what he put Seattle through during his tenure here. Should I feel bad? Should any of us? The question I guess ties in with that is, did he ever feel bad about how awful he was?
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I don't feel bad at all

Guy got what was coming to him.

The schmuck.

Yesterday's Pants

by Katal LM on Mar 7, 2008 2:07 PM PST reply actions

as a person, i do feel bad for him

but Player A the player...i feel no sympathy. he comes to seattle and completely sucks, then goes to st. louis and wins a ring?

now theyre finally feeling what we felt. about time.

i hope his baseball career comes crashing and burning down, but i hope his actual non-baseball life gets better.

by Paranoid Android on Mar 7, 2008 2:39 PM PST up reply actions

Don't forget the talking-shit-about-Seattle thing

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 7, 2008 2:40 PM PST up reply actions

I hope he gets explosive diarrhea.

And that diarrhea decides to suicide bomb his colon.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Mar 7, 2008 2:50 PM PST up reply actions

oh wow

I actually forgot about that. that was really really low.

yeah screw that guy. damn me and my faith in humanity.

by Paranoid Android on Mar 7, 2008 2:59 PM PST up reply actions

I feel bad for the other people in his life

I do not feel bad for Player A. I wish him prolongued distress.

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 7, 2008 2:16 PM PST reply actions

good answer

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

by wadswerth on Mar 7, 2008 2:27 PM PST up reply actions

Substance abuse problems are terribly sad.

Still, I tend to only feel bad for decent people who see there lives unravel due to them. Player A never showed himself to be anything but a total douche, as a player and a human being, so he doesn't really get any sympathy from me. I do feel terrible for the other people in his life, especially his kids.

With that being said, however, I get absolutely no pleasure out of seeing his life fall apart. Just because I think he sucks doesn't mean I wish him any ill will.

--aaron c.

Our Spaceship-Pop culture without the pretense. (Under construction)

by Aaron Campeau on Mar 7, 2008 2:27 PM PST reply actions

Substance abuse problems are terribly dumb

But then, I'm an emotionless robot, so that's to be expected.

by Llewdor on Mar 7, 2008 3:54 PM PST up reply actions

Oh crap!!

I'm abusing substances as I type!

by chrisisasavage on Mar 7, 2008 9:02 PM PST up reply actions

I only started drinking heavily....

in mourning for Josh Hancock!!!!?????

That's essentially what Player A said.

What a world-class, mendoza-line limbo-ing, whining douche.

Yeroutahere!

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

by franklloyd on Mar 7, 2008 3:41 PM PST reply actions

People often start drinking heavily

When they lose their weed hook-up.

by Sec 108 on Mar 7, 2008 3:47 PM PST up reply actions

Haha he is a giant penis

by Graham MacAree on Mar 7, 2008 3:50 PM PST reply actions

How's that gin treating you?

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Mar 7, 2008 3:53 PM PST up reply actions

Today was my last day of lectures forevwr

I'm so drunk I almost lost a foosball match.,

by Graham MacAree on Mar 7, 2008 4:02 PM PST up reply actions

You still spelled words correctly.

You clearly need more gin.

And deserve it.

Congrats!

Ill Ligitamus Non Carberendum

by PositivePaul on Mar 7, 2008 4:20 PM PST up reply actions

Still have lots of exams

And a like... many page thesis to do. I supesct any spelling workingness is entiurely luck though.

by Graham MacAree on Mar 7, 2008 4:36 PM PST up reply actions

its kinda like BABIP

by Bearskin Rugburn on Mar 7, 2008 7:25 PM PST up reply actions

Put that in your thesis and smoke it.

by Llewdor on Mar 8, 2008 12:00 PM PST up reply actions

I'm with you, man

Or at least I'm about a few drinks from being with you

I'm Gomez and I write about many things.

by Gomez on Mar 7, 2008 5:49 PM PST up reply actions

I think

addicts are just big fucking vaginas with no willpower*. But then, maybe its just that I don't have problems with addictive substances (its not for lack of trying) so I can't feel their pain.

*i make exceptions for people with truly miserable lives or inherited addiction - that's just tragic.

by Bearskin Rugburn on Mar 7, 2008 7:32 PM PST reply actions