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Can I ask a question? When did public tears become a positive? I am not talking about crying at the birth of your child, or the death of your father....I am talking about crying with cameras and mikes and all that pointed at you.
First it is every retiring ball player...but maybe I can see that as you dream all your life that you will be a baseball or football or hockey or basketball player and you do it, you do it well (as usually only the good guys get to retire, the one's that are not get cut and never heard from again)and now that is over and you look back at all the memories and cry.
And also you look at the fact that the dream is over and all that great stuff is behind you...so maybe I get that.
But in a week we get two cries that floored me. First Hillary Clinton cries, or at least wells up, and it helps her to the degree that she wins a primary. 30-some years ago, in the same state, Edmund Muskie cries and he goes from front runner to dead meat and never to be heard from again in politics. But now it is a positive??
Then days later the Cowboys lose a playoff game, just a playoff game, and T.O. cries !!! Wait, we have a pr0 athelete, a grown manm crying over a football game??? I could even maybe understand years ago when Wade Boggs cried after the Boston Red Sox got so close to the World Series win and lost in that the hopes and dreams of a city waiting 60 plus years for a win were on their shoulders. But for this guy to cry over one loss on a team that has won in the recent past is a bit odd.
I think this just shows that maybe we all need to man up a bit
As I said in the beginning, crying because of a death, a birth, horrible news, those are one thing....but crying over losing a football game and crying because it is hard to run for President?????? Am I missing something here?
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Posted by whiteknight on 2008-01-16 07:42:52 | Rating: n/a | Views: 71
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