New Shirt
For those of you who know me, (which is the vast majority of the people who read this blog) you probably know that I own a couple t-shirts. Yes, way to many, but I’ve been more purposeful in my buys lately.
As you read a few days ago I was wondering about the t-shirt business. Where that started was that I bought a shirt from Mothering Hut the other day, and am very happy with the purchase. Mothering Hut makes niche sports t-shirts and has been promoted on a few very popular sports blogs. They make funny shirts and sell everything through Spreadshirt. I wonder how much money they are making and if there is a market for one of these stores to be affiliated with each sports city?
Ohh, and if you’re wondering, this is the shirt I will be wearing the next time I go to a sporting event.
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don’t know why everyone is pissed at bonds. get a life. for the first time in years i am following something about baseball, instead of just casually going and enjoying meaningless games. the networks are probably getting more viewers and more ad dollars, ticket sales are probably up too. for pete’s sake, what’s so wrong with the roids. you against superchargers in cars too? high-heels on women? fertelizer in your lawn? what about boob jobs? I bet baseball guys LOVE boob jobs.
oh by the way, nice shirt. i dig the colors, as I’m sure that was a major influence in the purchase.
If you check out the shirt, all of those scores/ records/ numbers are ones that deserve an astrik. The shirts name is “Tainted Love” speaking of the love for sports, and the tainted numbers that go along with it.
Wow Lach. Great response. I however am not a fan of steroids in baseball as it is ILLEGAL. Those other things are not illegal so there is nothing wrong there. If you want a comparison it’s like using NOS in STI against your AWD Civic. They’re both AWD so it’s fair? Don’t think so.
Wait, NOS isn’t fair! Although, technically racing is also illegal, unless it’s offroad, where NOS is legal…
I get the shirt, and I think 1919 shouldn’t be there, since they lost, and they threw it making them losers, one in the same, the record should stand. Unless the asterisks is for the Reds, in which case it doesn’t make much sense to credit the number to the Sox, as the product page does. Technicality.
I don’t get Lance’s seven though? Why’s that an *? I don’t follow bike racing too well. Maybe they should use steroids too, then I’d watch.
Thanks Otis for pointing out the “Tainted Love” theory …. after I sent off my first responce about the # 756* ;I thought about the other numbers also and wondered …. As far as pointing out the difference between steroid use and non use in sports to lach???.. I dont think he would understand. I believe the probible age generation difference wouldn’t allow for understanding …. I gave up on baseball years ago because of the evolution of the sport ;and so my comments are not new. His coments about more $$$$$$$$$$ is also a complaint I have … Is it about $ or the love of the sport. To me it was the love of the sport…….
I wish there was such thing as “the love of the sport” in the major leagues. I guess that’s what AAA and ball is for (Go B’ham Bells). The love of the sport dies when the stadiums can’t be paid for, ticket prices go up, and games are no longer televised.
I wish it could be for the love of the game. Baseball being about business is not a new thing, what year did the Yankees start buying all the best players (Babe Ruth?)? Would the addition of the GM in 1920 count as the start of the decline?
So here are my thoughts on Lance’s 7 TdF victories…
By all means, Lance is the best TdF cyclist ever, maybe not the best rider ever, but the best TdF rider b/c he rides to win le TdF only and not the other major races.
The idea about an * by Lance’s 7 is that it is widely believed that ALL riders are doping or using EPO, even Lance and even though he never failed a drug test / tested positive for any banned substance or elevated hormone or blood cell levels. The thought is that he was cheating somehow - whether that was done by using just enough to not get caught or using something that masks the illegal EPO or blood cell counts. Some say that Lance got away with some things initially because of cancer (skewed levels of everything + drugs that were able to be used to keep him in remission).
Part of it is that nobody wants to believe that he, an AMERICAN, could win 7 in a row. The French and its press do not want an American winning THEIR race once, much less 7 times in a row. We in the US have no real equal to what this race means to the French and it cycling community…but maybe you will understand that we would not want a French golfer to beat Jack’s record number of majors (or eventually I believe Tiger’s records) or to beat Tiger and win The Masters and the U.S. Open…but especially The Masters. If he’s Irish, English, Australian, S. Africian, Scotish, etc., no big deal but a big news story b/c Tiger did not win, but we simply hate the French like they hate us because we are both OBSESSIVELY arrogant about ourselves on the whole.
So the real idea is that people in the non-US cycling community do not believe that Lance should have been / could have been able to do what he did not simply to the other riders, but to le Tour de France.
I hope this helps some…
The shirt should read ” 756* “