We all gush over the great athletes but what about the no good bums that piss you off everytime you see their ugly faces up on Sportscentre?
Who do you detest most in sports, and for what reason?
For me, I've always hated Chris Chelios - just a no good, cheap asshole. But now he's actually making me respect him, playing like a 30 year old at 44 and has a very good chance of winning a cup this year. What a motherfucker.
Same thing with Cristiano Ronaldo - he used to piss me off like you wouldn't believe, the cheating, diving crying bitch that he is, but now he's actually elevated his game and doesn't dive as much as he used to, which in turn makes me hate him less. What an asshole.
All those baseball players - Roger, Barry, Rafael - who lie about taking steroids piss me off. I think that's a given though.
So it has to be one guy who really gets to me and hasn't elevated their game to the point where it would be foolish not to acknowledge it.
My vote would go to Alexi Yashin. A dirty, diving Russian who did have talent, this guy actually sat out for a full year while under contract because he felt he wasn't getting paid fairly after having one good year (he was getting paid 3.6 million, poor guy). This wasn't even the first contract dispute in his checkered career. He ends up getting traded to the Islanders and signed a massive 10 year, 87 million dollar contract. He then proceeded to mail it in for the rest of his career, never posting a point per game again even though he was capable of it. He stunk up the joint nightly, and in his last few weeks with the Isles played on the 4th line. The Islanders ended up buying out the rest of his contract and are saddled with his salary under the cap for a few more years. He now plays in Russia, the ultimate cop out. I hope he gets hepatitus from one of the locker rooms out there.
To me this guy represented everything wrong with pro athletes. He was in it for the money, had no honor or integrity, had a sense of entitlment even though he had never won anything, and disapeared when the going got tough.
Who do you detest most in sports, and for what reason?
For me, I've always hated Chris Chelios - just a no good, cheap asshole. But now he's actually making me respect him, playing like a 30 year old at 44 and has a very good chance of winning a cup this year. What a motherfucker.
Same thing with Cristiano Ronaldo - he used to piss me off like you wouldn't believe, the cheating, diving crying bitch that he is, but now he's actually elevated his game and doesn't dive as much as he used to, which in turn makes me hate him less. What an asshole.
All those baseball players - Roger, Barry, Rafael - who lie about taking steroids piss me off. I think that's a given though.
So it has to be one guy who really gets to me and hasn't elevated their game to the point where it would be foolish not to acknowledge it.
My vote would go to Alexi Yashin. A dirty, diving Russian who did have talent, this guy actually sat out for a full year while under contract because he felt he wasn't getting paid fairly after having one good year (he was getting paid 3.6 million, poor guy). This wasn't even the first contract dispute in his checkered career. He ends up getting traded to the Islanders and signed a massive 10 year, 87 million dollar contract. He then proceeded to mail it in for the rest of his career, never posting a point per game again even though he was capable of it. He stunk up the joint nightly, and in his last few weeks with the Isles played on the 4th line. The Islanders ended up buying out the rest of his contract and are saddled with his salary under the cap for a few more years. He now plays in Russia, the ultimate cop out. I hope he gets hepatitus from one of the locker rooms out there.
To me this guy represented everything wrong with pro athletes. He was in it for the money, had no honor or integrity, had a sense of entitlment even though he had never won anything, and disapeared when the going got tough.
