Shame(s) on You: Whole Lotta Shame

Could just be my sexual frustration talking but I'm mad at the world and need to take out my frustration on someone and these are the lucky bastards this time around:

1. People who got upset at Lastings Milledge - Give me a break and get off your high horse. If you were upset that a baseball player slapped high fives with fans on his way out to his position in between innings after hitting a homerun then you need to have that stick surgically removed from your ass. What he did was not showing up the other team. What he did was embracing the fans.

Showing up the other team would be standing at home plate and admiring the flight of the ball. Or perhaps flipping the bat and making a gesture as he rounded first base. Manny Ramirez for one shows up the other team almost every time he steps to the plate. And yet we don't take offense to that. Nor do we take offense every single time a player gets called out of his dugout for a curtain call. Apparently you can admire homeruns and come out for applause during the next batter's at bat but the one thing you can't do is shake hands with fans IN BETWEEN INNINGS. It's not like he pulled a Cal Ripken and did a victory lap during the game. It was in between innings.

Give the guy a break. He was just leaving a Lastings impression with the fans. Perhaps it will become his signature thing the way Sammy Sosa used to run out to the outfield. Sports need more people like Milledge and more fan friendly traditions like the Lambau Leap. What they don't need are unwritten rules and old time baseball traditionalists who don't know a good thing when it hits them over the head.

2. The suits at ESPN who decided that Roger Clemens pitching in a Single A baseball game was worthy of being televised over regular programming - Who are you to tell me what I want to watch. You decided to televise it because apparently there's a huge national interest in it. Well I think that there's only a huge national interest in it because you keep televising it.

This reminds me of when LeBron James' high school basketball games were being televised. Someone needs to draw a line of good taste and make sure that these executives don't cross it. Because I for one am sick and tired of being told what to watch.

3. Everything else - I could go on all day but since nobody wants to hear about yet another jewish guy complaining abou yet another thing I'll stop right here. But not before I give literal shout outs to FX for running a contest without any prize money, the State of Florida for always making me sick, and the executives at ABC for not making Lost a daily soap opera.

But on the bright side at least Entourage is back on Sunday!