Inconsistency

It's the inconsistency between punishments and rulings that make me really hate league/sport administrators.  I hate that player's status will affect the punishment they receive, sometimes it helps, and sometimes it doesn't.  For example...

In Ovie's case, it did not help.  They wanted to use him as an example, trying to send the message that no matter who you are, they won't condone anything remotely close to what the rule was specifically created for.  And yes, I agree that Ovie did nothing wrong, but at the same time, it was dangerous and as a result they make that correlation between what Ovie did and what the rule was supposedly created for.  For hockey, it's harder than most other sports, because of not only the stigma it comes with, but also who the fan base is made up of, and the history that the sport is built upon.  Fights and hard board checks are what people go to hockey games for.  That's why people say that a hockey game's atmosphere is probably the best out of all sports, cause of the intensity, and the fact that at any moment, someone can drop their gloves and knock-someone-the-fuck-out.  So I'll give the NHL more leeway than others...

In the recent NASCAR situation, Carl Edwards got into an accident with another drive... non-intentional... went to the pit, got his car fixed, and got back on the track.  Once back on the track tho, he sought out the driver that was involved in the earlier accident... the other driver was in contention also... in the top 10... and then he maliciously caused the other driver's car to go airborne, into the safety grandstand fence, and then lands upside down.  Now, don't get me wrong, accidents happen all the time in NASCAR, which again, is the big reason/draw to watching a lame ass race.  But this is extremely dangerous.  People's lives are on the line... and not just the athletes, because they know the risks they take, but fans could have been killed or horribly injured.  But all he gets is a slap on the wrist because, NASCAR can't afford to have one of it's bigger stars suspended for the season.  And it's not even that he intentionally caused the accident, but it wasn't while trying to win, since he had no chance of winning, and it wasn't based off of anything that the other person did wrong, as replays clearly show that the first accident was Edwards' fault.  

So shit like that just pisses me off.  It's like the age old legal conundrum, why the punishment for 1 gram of crack is 10 times worse than the punishment for 1 gram of coke, even though crack is made from coke.  Inconsistencies and the fact that these rules set by the leagues, tho they are suppose to be enforced equally, are enforced "subjectively" and for the best interest of said league.  Just as the severity of crack punishment laws can be traced back to racial roots.  I won't elaborate, but it's not hard to find the correlation between the involved parties in the two difference situations.

One of the biggest inconsistency that comes to mind is the whole Pete Rose and McGwire argument, which was made in January and Vince's Response.

Other things on my mind I want to touch on when I have more time...

Homer's post on Tiger and Athlete affairs

NCAA

More Draft stuff

NFL off-season moves

Soccer

and getting ready for golf... hell yea!

NEW ALERT!!!

News Alert: Tiger Woods will return to golf at Masters
11:25 AM EDT Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he will return to golf at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., in three weeks. The tournament will be held April 8-11. Woods has not played since last fall, when a scandal erupted concerning his extramarital affairs.