Actually, I really have nothing to say about "just" nice guys... The fact is, guys hate to hear they are such a nice guy. What they say is really true, nice guys finish last. Nice guy is a demeaning word when you think about it. To a guy, they never ever want to be called nice. It's like the word cute. Cute is just as bad. Actually cute may be worse. Cute is a one way road to the friend zone, and I think we all know once you get into the friend zone, there is no coming out. It's like the word 'just'. That might be the worst of all. When a girl pulls out 'just,' it's the end of road. When she says just friends, there is no hope for anything more. Does it suck? Yes, very much actually, but sometimes you 'just' have to deal with it. When this happens, you get stuck watching 3 Ninjas all by yourself on a Thursday night...
Now, onto bigger and better things...
Yesterday two things happened in the sports world, actually in the baseball world. An umpire threw away a perfect game. A perfect game is history. It's the greatest thing a pitcher could do throughout his career. Only 19 people have ever thrown a perfect game before, and an ump took away the 20th to ever happen. But, can we really blame the ump? He said he was sure the player was safe, that is until he saw the replay after the game. So, again I ask, can we really blame the ump? Let's not forget that in 2006, the players voted him the second best ump in baseball. Bottom line is, there is no way you can blame the umpire Jim Joyce for making a mistake. Mistakes are made by humans every day! We must blame the system for this one! Or maybe, we should blame Bud Selig. I mean really, he has the power to go back and call him out, but did he, no. Bud Selig is the one and only reason there is no instant replay in Major League Baseball. There needs to be instant replay to correct calls like this one that were missed. I guess that is the only good thing that will eventually come out of this whole debacle!
The one thing that is really too sad is, the misfortune above took away from the retirement of one of the greatest baseball players to walk the planet. He made his swing look so easy, and every kid aspired to him. His swing was smooth, but powerful. By far, he had the greatest swing I have ever seen. No matter what, every time he made contact with the ball, it looked as if it was headed out of the park. After 22 years, he has been ridiculed for leaving the club house early to go on vacation, sleeping in the locker room during a game, and an immense amount of injuries throughout the latter part of his career. If he were healthy the last 10 years he played, he would have no doubt been the best baseball player EVER. His 630 career home runs leaves him with the 5th most of all time. He was the first to wear his baseball cap backwards, and he changed the game of baseball trading cards as well. Personally, I have his rookie card. He was the first person picked in the 1987 MLB draft. Nicknamed "The Kid," during his 22 years, he truly was a kid doing what he loved. I have never seen him on the field not smiling. He will surely be elected on his first-ballot into the Hall of Fame. He made baseball fun, and that is the most important part. Memorable moments include: his amazing defensive catches which he made look so easy, his home run derby win, him and his father hitting back-to-back home runs in 1990, and his 600th home run as a Cincinnati Red. His talent overmatched everyone else's, and it seemed completely natural. He came in as a Seattle Mariner, and he left as a Seattle Mariner. He was their poster child, even when he wasn't a Mariner. Ken Griffey Jr. will be greatly missed in the game of baseball, and it is a shame his retirement seemed to have gone unnoticed! Junior, I have your rookie card, and I have a poster of you. You were my favorite player, and I will miss you in the game of baseball! Thanks for all the memories!
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