Ronny Mexico

I'm not really a religious person. Never have been. I needed to imdb "Seven" just to figure out which of the deadly sins was most appropriate for this story, and even that didn't help my understanding much. At any rate, sitting here, listening to ESPN blabber on and on about today's greediest, most vain sports personalities, I began to think about my favorites...

Did you know Pete Carroll is giving up 2 timeouts in next week's game against cross town rival UCLA, just to wear home jerseys in the Rose bowl? What an arrogant, classless, prideful bastard. That's badass. Stupid. But cool.

Here is my problem. If it's sports related, I'm not just interested, I'm gulping it down in excess. See you all in hell (see Gluttony).

Big time sports generate big time cash money. Everybody knows the scrutiny that comes with that kind of loot, and with 24hour news shrinking the world, today's athletes have little room for error. (Pacman Jones. Really? You've heard Mo Money Mo Probems. Making it Rain? Figure it out.)

Maybe I'm just pissed off because when I'm sitting at the bar in Maui, I'd like to be able to focus on a pivotal college football match up (OU vs. OSU, huge BCS implications). I don't appreciate the assault on my concentration by a barrage of news regarding the latest superstar to implode. Why is it when they collapse into their self made black holes they have to suck me in too?

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes seeing them blowing it is painfully entertaining. That said, I'm not shocked by the overexposure of Plaxico "Cheddar Bob" Burress. He plays in the Apple, for the defending Super Bowl champs, the New York Giants. I get it. Major market... blah blah blah.

The facts are pretty bland, some over payed punk, a wannabe thug carrying a gun in a nightclub, illegally, shot himself in the leg. In the process, he obliterated his already rapidly deteriorating reputation as an athlete and flushed his exorbitant paycheck down the toilet.

Modern Religion ought to include stupidity as the 8th major sin, though it's rarely deadly, it's certainly fun to watch.