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Are Sports the New Crack?
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | Sports | 2 Comments
We have all seen movies where a woman strung out on crack will offer her body to get her fix. The fact that it has become a cliche, to me indicates that crack can become so addictive that people will do anything including giving up your self respect to get the drug.
In the news today, was a story about a woman named Susan Finkelstein who offered to perform a sexual act to get tickets to the World Series. I’m not a big fan of sports but I have been a Yankees fan since I was in grade school. This was partially because I like to win and when I was growing up it was a pretty safe bet to choose the Yankees to win. So I may not be called a fanatic but I am a fan. This being said, I can honestly say that I can’t think of an instance where I would go to extremes to get tickets.
I realize that because of my relative sports inexperience I am not on the cutting edge of sports traditions. I used to think, even in my youth when we are more likely to do foolish things, that those people who would camp out to get tickets were crazy. Now I am reassessing their motives because apparently after you have spent a week camping out without shaving or bathing you can still get laid.
Again, because of my inexperience, I can only assume that there is a list of services for the type of tickets you got. If your seats were behind a pole would you just get a tease, for a nose bleed seat, a hand job? Does this mean that box seats are appropriately named? Was this the etymology of the phrase “Getting to first base”? Is there an S/M meaning for a “walk on balls?”
I am going to continue this next week cause I have more to say
Warren
