If you could remove one uncomfortable detail, there was a heartwarming scene after the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim clinched their division title on Monday night. http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/09/30/celebrating-angels-need-to-grasp-sobering-reality/?icid=main|aim|dl6|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fmlb.fanhouse.com%2F2009%2F09%2F30%2Fcelebrating-angels-need-to-grasp-sobering-reality%2F I completely understand both sides of the story on this one but I wanted to know everyone's thoughts on this.
Since his teammates were the ones that knew him better and felt his loss more than most of the fans and media I think they should let them do what they want to. This is PC going too far.
I live out here and I live less than 5 minutes from where the accident happened. Yeah it's a sad story, but it is getting out of hand, There are commercials that run non stop showing the angels in game footage, with a narrator, saying this team is playing hard, not only for themselves, but for nick. They know nick is looking down on them from heaven rooting them on. Then they show they angels high-fiving the picture of adenhart on the outfield wall. It's pretty bad how commerical it has become out here.
Why not just take it a step further and say the Angels players should feel bad for ever drinking a beer again after Adenhart died? I mean seriously, I think this is stupid. Now if Adenhart had died because HE was the guy drunk driving and plowed into someone else, maybe I'd see a point to saying the celebration was in poor taste. But that wasn't the case at all.
what the angels did was classy all the way. all they were doing was honoring Nick when they were celebrating in the locker room when they poured beer on his jersey and when they went to his picture in the outfield
PC BS Gone Wild... Absolutely ridiculous. Adenhart's teammates have kept his memory alive all season long by having him in their daily thoughts & included him in a time honored celebration of spraying each other down during one of the highlights of an athlete's career. I'll venture a guess that Adenhart's family already knew the heart condition of all the Angels & took this celebration as yet another sign of the bond their son forged with his team mates. This writer saying: "On an average day, 36 people die and 700 are injured by alcohol impaired drivers. The carnage touches millions of lives, including quite a few who buy tickets to baseball games and watch it on TV. When they see Adenhart's jersey being drenched in beer, they don't see a bunch of well-meaning teammates trying to remember a friend. They see that "accident," or whatever you want to call it. Shouldn't their feelings count for something?" ...makes it even more of a stretch by not only referencing the Adenhart family but then putting the burden of the lingering pain of millions of people who have bad memories from alcohol incidents. If that was really the case, why not stress that seeing alcohol being sprayed around would remind those same people even without the uniform drenching? Why just stop there? :icon_rolleyes: Just another case of the media being 'creative' in trying to be 'cutting edge' & PC to get attention. The Angels have honored the short life of a fellow ballplayer & should get kudos for not just being in mourning for a day or so after his death but kept him in their hearts thru-out the year. Anybody wanting to piss on their parade should realize life goes on & quit looking for opportunities to take their judgments to Damn others especially since the heart condition of these athletes was abundantly clear. End rant...
regardless of what the players are personally doing. The commercials and over exposure for the media is freaking bullcrap.
Amen You're right, that's the real story here. The fabrication, manipulation, & blatant inaccuracy of what's news & what's not is a way off life nowadays. F'n BS is right...
