I Called In Sick Today

[Essay21 2,385]

Blow me. I got nothing else to do, might as well keep up on the next generation of superstars.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

If he blew you, you'd care less about the AAU circuit

[Essay21 2,385]

I'd still care (as much as I do now), I'd just be a lot gayer and probably less stressed out.

[Essay21 2,385]

Where the hell is stratty?

[loogie 115]

Where the hell is stratty?

 

Jolly Ol'

[Sickinfo2 291]

Who is that other dude with the cash? They always seem to call him in when they have a high end car to sell. Does he just buy and sell or what?

 

 

 

 

Dennis Collins. Hes half of the Collins Bros. Jeep establishment. Made a fortune flipping them over the years. Hes been Richards best bud for eons. Theyve been running the bullrun and cannonball type rallys for years. Together they hold the NY to CA record in a Ferrari five fifty.

 

 

 

Last time the kid was down there, Dennis walked up to him and said, "So...what do you bring to the table around here?"

 

 

 

Without hesitation, my skinny lad said in a deep voice, "Muscle" and walked off...

 

 

 

Thats how I ended up with another jeep project. Likes the kid so much after that it was basically give to me

 

 

 

 

Honestly, none of those guys are acting or reading scripts of witty things to say. Thats one part of the show thats a hundred percent real. Hang around Richard for a few hours and youll be drunk and stomach hurting from laughing so hard

[Essay21 2,385]

Anyone seen the video of the Rutgers basketball coach? It's insane to think these guys act like that while making that much money to coach basketball. Shoving players, throwing balls at them, calling them homophobic slurs. What a moron.

[Whiskers 680]

http://youtu.be/IVoOtpDuZwA

[Whiskers 680]

Did you just say "homophobic slurs?"

 

Also, yeah, this guy needs to be fired immediately. Totally ridiculous.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

I'd still care (as much as I do now), I'd just be a lot gayer and probably less stressed out.

 

I'd bet you $1000 dollars that you won't care as much as you do now in 15 years. I'd say 10 but there is no chance you'll be married and have kids in 10 years. Hell, maybe 20.

 

You'll still care, but it won't be the life and death that it is now. At least I hope not otherwise, you'll be THAT guy. Superfan #99

[Essay21 2,385]

Did you just say "homophobic slurs?"

 

Yeah saying faggots there would have felt strange.

 

Maybe you're right Ronny. But we will never know cause ill never get married and most likely be dead in 15 years.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

That guy is awful, and excessive, but maybe it's different in football. We had coaches kick us in the ass when down in a stance, physically grab us and move us to the proper position or technique. Shoveling footballs at us. I can't stay it was a full out hard through, but still. And we were definitely called homophobic slurs.

 

Again, to clarify, this guy is awful and deserves to be fired. I wonder how long and how many practices it took to get that footage. Regardless, it's a lot of incidents, but its not insane if its over 2 years time

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

Maybe you're right Ronny. But we will never know cause ill never get married and most likely be dead in 15 years.

 

Meh, you're probably right

[Whiskers 680]

I'm sure it's not exactly super uncommon, but it should be.

 

I never had a physically abusive coach, but the verbally abusive ones are probably just as bad to kids and I've had a couple of those.

[Essay21 2,385]

All of my coaches were extreme yellers. Major reason why I tried to never yelll at the kids when I coached.

[The Ocho 970]

You have pads in football

[Essay21 2,385]

Lot of coaches would grab the kids by the face mask when they were mad. I don't really care for that. Probably just don't touch the kids. Always a good rule.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

I agree. But pads don't help when they ding the whistle off the top of your helmet and your ears ring for 5 minutes. Or when you're out of position and the coach grabs your facemask and yanks you to where you shoulda been.

 

I never thought twice about any of it.

 

Still not saying that this guy was in any way right or helping. Just adding some context. This day and age, you just don't put your hands on people like that.

 

Sadly, if one of the kids, especially a black one, woulda slugged him or pushed him back, the kid woulda been crucified as ghetto and a problem in the media unless that video surface. (THE BOOMING VOICE OF NEGRATUDE)

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

Lot of coaches would grab the kids by the face mask when they were mad. I don't really care for that. Probably just don't touch the kids. Always a good rule.

 

That's because you're young and from the age of entitled Internet pussies who got trophies just for being on the team. Winners suffer, winners learn the hard way, winners fck the prom queen, or any random dame for that matter. Actually, that explains a few thing. I'm gonna come and smack you around a little, toughen you up

 

 

(Most of this post was written tongue in cheek)

[Essay21 2,385]

If you want to psychoanalyze me I'd say I'm the way I am because I was yelled at so often. Yelled at after everything I did. Good or bad I or yelled at. By my coaches at the game and my dad on the ride home. And I just took it and took it until I didn't give a shit anymore and didnt show up on the first day of practice for college. I just didnt want to do it anymore. Biggest mistake of my life.

[Tiltinagain 973]

 

Honestly, none of those guys are acting or reading scripts of witty things to say. Thats one part of the show thats a hundred percent real. Hang around Richard for a few hours and youll be drunk and stomach hurting from laughing so hard

 

Definitely get that from the show. Some "reality" shows are obviously very scripted. I see a little of that in this show but it doesn't come across as "acting".

 

I'm sure it's not exactly super uncommon, but it should be.

 

I never had a physically abusive coach, but the verbally abusive ones are probably just as bad to kids and I've had a couple of those.

 

I was in basic training in the Army in 1990, not too awful long after they put the kabosh on drill sergeants touching recruits in any way. I was a little older than most of the guys, already married with a kid and most of them were just 18 and this was the first time they were away from mommy's titty for more than a day or two. Knowing that they couldn't/wouldn't touch you was very empowering to me. Yell all you want MF'er, I don't give a damn. But damned if I didn't see at least one dude cry a day for the first 3 or 4 weeks that the DS's really get on your case. Hell, several of them didn't even know their Dad so this was probably the first time an adult male had every yelled at them. And, let me tell you, when the DS found a crier, he took every opportunity he could to push the kids buttons.

 

Some people are saying that they would have kicked the coaches ass for doing what he did in practices. When you are the clear leader and all those kids look up to you, not to mention you hold their future and scholarship in your hands, no way you'd even think of fighting back.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

What sport? Basketball I'd guess. Well, if you were any good, you wouldn't have gotten yelled at so much

 

And not to one up you because I hate the one up guy or go to dark places, but did your dad ever put hands on you? A backhand across the face for mouthing off, in front of parents, reach in the backseat of the car to smack you for not paying attention to him on the way to the field? I can't say I ever got hit for bad games but I wouldn't rule it out. Although, in youth baseball through sophomore year in high school, I rarely had bad games. Baseball was my sport. Football was functional, and only fun on game days.

 

That's not even mentioning the beatings from the belt on my bare ass that caused welts, mostly because I got bad report cards. I never tired in school. Would always rather play sports or watch tv

 

The real bad one for me was after a game, senior year (football) where we clinched the playoff spot and beat the areas other best team 40-6, we go to the locker room and there is my overbearing dad there for some reason. I'm hyped up so I ask what the fck he was doing in the locker room. BOOM, right across the face with a pimp slap. Right in front of my coaches and teammates. A coach escorted him out of the locker room.

I did get my revenge. His car was on the way to the bus. I was still tearing up a little and angry, so I took my helmet and slammed it into his front quarter panel as hard as I could. Ear pads went flying. I got on the bus undetected. Left a huge dent. He asked me later if I noticed it or saw anything. Of course I didnt.

 

Well wow, that got real for a minute. Post workout adrenaline I suppose. Not let's shower off this pity. Actually, I don't feel all that shit affected me at all. No excuses. I think my older brother is affected by that stuff though.

[Napa Lite 3,278]

Ron...it's not your fault.

 

My coaches weren't too bad, but we were practicing with a different team over break and their coach got all up in the kids face I was drilling with and on a return to the mat he slammed me down on my shoulder and I was out the rest of the season and my shoulder still pops when I move it.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

Not you too Napa

 

Don't fck with Napa

[Essay21 2,385]

I played baseball Ronny. And I was very good. That's what made all the yelling so annoying.