Friday, August 23, 2013
A few good Brauns
You want an apology? You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Son, we live in a world that has homeruns, and those homeruns have to be hit by men with bats. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Commisioner Selig?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the sanctity of the game, and you curse PEDs. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know… that the surpassing of homerun records, while "tragic," probably drove revenues. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, builds revenues.
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you WANT me on steroids hitting 500 foot homeruns, you NEED me on steroids hitting 500 foot homeruns.
We use words like work, dedication, competition. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent trying to win games. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a media who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the games' popularity that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said, "Thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a bat, and get in the batter's box.
Either way, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE ENTITLED TO!
By the way, I love many of Tom Cruise movies. ?Starting with that one, I also hold Minority Report and Last Sumurai in high regard (and I'll rewatch those often enough). Knight and Day was a really fun movie, and Collateral was tremendous, though more for Foxx I think. (Jack Reacher I think had potential to be like those two put together, but couldn't pull it off).
But he stole the show in Tropic Thunder, in perhaps my favorite cameo role of any actor in any movie. It's just too bad I don't like him more on a personal level. He's basically Colonel Jessup at this point, much as the original blogger alludes to with all our favorites going down outside of the milieu in which we appreciate them.
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