As I reported earlier William Ligue Jr., whose attack of Chicago White Sox first base coach, Tom Gamboa resulted in a very light penalty is allowed to return to White Sox games. In fact Ligue has returned to watch a game and Inside Edition, that bastion of journalistic integrity (note thick sarcasm), went along to report on it. The story will air this Tuesday.
This just upsets me all around. I'm annoyed that Ligue is even allowed back in the stadium where he obviously couldn't control himself. I'm pissed off that Inside Edition would follow him around and make him a celebrity because of his stupidity. It just makes me sick.
I have resisted commenting on the Dave Bliss situation at Baylor University for several days. I wanted to say something before but I just couldn't figure out how to say it. I'm not sure that I know what to say now but I feel like something needs to be said. There seems to be an epidemic among college coaches that cause them to lose their minds and cheat in every way imaginable and do stupid things like spend the night with a prostitute and then leave your credit card with her or spend all night partying with coeds from the school that just beat your team and then get your picture on the front page of the paper.
David Bliss has taken that stupidity to a whole other level. As a coach at a school that is at least in name Christian (I don't know anything about the school so I can't comment on whether it is still guided by that claim or not) he tried to cover his own butt by defaming the name of a murdered player. He tried to drag everyone else into the scheme, including players and assistant coaches and then he had the audacity to say "It's not like we created his situation. We're the victims." I don't even want to start on that comment, it just makes me sick.
The whole situation makes me sick. The fact that a coach would do something so stupid is disturbing. The fact that this would happen at at "Christian" school hurts even more. I just don't know what to say.
Well, I've got to go to a meeting now. Maybe I will comment a little more later. I've still got some other thoughts about this whole mess. I'd be glad to hear what anyone else is thinking.
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