An old game played a new way
June 21st, 2008, 8:02 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Bill Gamblin
The person I always hated playing ball against was the kid in the neighborhood who thought he was the next best thing since sliced bread.
You remember the kid.
Each season he had a new pair of cleats, new glove, and the best bat money and technology could buy.
He was also the brat who would cry and take his ball and go home when things didn’t go his way.
That was the 1970’s for me…let’s turn the hands of time to now.
Enter the latest realm for that brat…Federal Court.
Justin Gatlin and other athletes like him think an injunction is the way to make the game go their way.
Sorry, but all it does is earn you another record in how fast you can turn an event into a battle of legalese and make the sporting world look dumber that it did when it went arawy.
The laws of the sporting land have ruled. And we wonder why instant replay is worse than instant grits and instant Gatorade.
Justin if you win this one, there is still hope for us who want sweet tea as the next flavor of Gatorade in the south.
