I mean really, don't we all want to make great regal pronouncements RIGHT NOW about what's going on with the Chiefs? I do admit it can be fun, though, but let's face it, it is all not really any big deal.
Other than that, for the most part. I know nothing. So I picked up this little fact about baseball, that the umpires had advertisements on their uniforms, in great big fat letters: FTX.
In fact, none of what we all observe and pontificate about at any time regarding the Chiefs is any big deal. Even the Super Bowl is just part of the entertainment showcase, nothing more. Is there some grand transcendent meaning to any CHIEEEFS SUCCESSSS? I can't say there isn't, really. There are indeed many good things about Chiefs things and rooting for them and sticking our noses into what's going on with them as our heroes demonstrating great feats of daring-football-do so we can get that feeling of greatness and wonderfulness vicariously through their exploits because - yeah - ahem -- our own lives can be pretty blyechh.
I just felt like blogging a bit to add some thoughts related to this whole sports thing. I've been peeking at a book called Easy Money by Ben McKenzie and I love it, simply because he gets deep into the very truthful veritable transcendent ontologically provable truth that anything crypto is just a wickedly fraudulent scam. I'm an economics teacher and I like this kind of blistering truth-telling, good for him. I've always taught my students that Bitcoin is just a bunch of computer numbers that too many people want to make seem like something of value when they are not, and that all Bitcoin holders are doing is trying to hoodwink others into thinking they're something so they can make out. Crypto-hustlers anybody are simply engaging in criminal racketeering, nothing less.
Not going to get deep into all the arguments for or against it now, my point in sharing this is because this book Easy Money shared with me a pretty horrific thing that major league baseball did related to crypto. I'd never known about this thing because as I've shared a number of times before in this blog effort, I don't pay a lick of attention to anything sports except Chiefs games. That's it. Once again, some things certainly get picked up by my sports radar, and I do peek in a bit more when one of my fave teams does well, such as when the basketball Warriors won it all year-before-last, I went ahead and watched much of that.
Oh my. I did not know this. Sure enough, I peeked around and there they were, all of them sporting an ad for basically a criminal operation. FTX by the way was the crypto exchange that collapsed after being exposed as one of the worst Ponzis in the whole thing. Now they are all Ponzis, every one of the crypto enterprises especially Bitcoin is, don't get me wrong -- it is just right now too many powerful people somewhere are convincing enough people they aren't. Again, lots of things to be said that just aren't right now.
But that major league baseball went so long with this FTX advertising going, and what is so ironic is that the ads were on the umpires. These are the very people holding the honor and duty to be objective and fair and just and righteous and true and all the rest of it.
What does this have to do with the Chiefs?
Sadness is what it has to do with it.
The Chiefs are just as much a part of all this crap as major league baseball umpires. I've already written about how much they've joined everyone else in promoting all this horrific sodomist and racialist stuff. I've already called out the unabashed relationship the NFL has with its gambling syndicates like Fan Duel and Draft Kings.
Really, doesn't NFL football have advertising connections with anything crypto? I have to say I've far too often seen that commercial with film star Matt Damon plugging crypto amongst all the brave adventurers through history. There is even a basketball/hockey arena in Los Angeles called "Crypto.com" Those naming rights are worth millions of dollars. Ahem, whose money is that?
What does this have to do with the Chiefs? This isn't anything new to share or anything, it really isn't. I will always love my team, and the game they play. Big-time organized, and yes televised sports is a good thing for ___, ___, ___, and ___. You can fill in the blanks for any of the fine legitimate reasons we can enjoy those games.
But wow is it contaminated, and in writing about it here, I'm just calling it out -- just riffing with some what-I-do-consider quite meaningful things for everyone to consider. Yes I do hope 100 million people read these things, stop buying into the crypto crime syndicate, and the full integrity of pro-sports-anything including Chiefs things can be restored.
I happened to see there is a Netflix feature on the baseball steroids thing, and I don't have an opinion one way or the other about it, but what I did think about was this:
Me: Get on board with abandoning crypto as a rip-off scam so it won't poison professional sports.
Someone else: Stop your moralizing, don't be so judgmental.
Me: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should be in the Hall of Fame.
Someone else: Whaddya mean? They did a bad thing!
Me: Who's being judgmental now?
See, a bazillion people have been told, "Be judgmental about steroids." Maybe that's legit, that's fine. But in the same breath they are told, "Don't be judgmental about crypto and if anyone is they're just mean." Again it is exceptionally reasonable how rotten crypto is, as well as how rotten are the gambling connections and the sodomist and racialist promotions that smother us as we watch these affairs. What is objectively true about these things? Can we indeed judge righteous judgment about those things, as Jesus says we can in the seventh chapter of John's gospel?
The other reason I mention the Netflix steroids show is that I'd imagine it would get deep into the personal life of someone like Barry Bonds. Huh. This started to concern me when I was watching the Netflix series on the NFL quarterbacks, one of whom was our own beloved Patrick Mahomes. I was watching this thing and realizing that, while it may have been okay for Mahomes to officially sign off on allowing us all such open access to his personal life, I was not okay with that.
It just got to a point when as a viewer I became very uncomfortable watching the things he did privately with his wife, family, and friends. Sorry, but none of this is my business. I felt like a salacious voyeur -- wow here's my football hero PATRICK MAHOMES and I get to be his really good friend and be like his good buddy right there with everyone hanging out and listening to his wisdom and and and...
And it just wasn't right.
All the actual football game stuff? That's cool. What he did in games and on the sideline and what he blurted and all of that, I really don't think that was any big deal. But always showing his family reactions and what they did in and around anything Mahomesesque, not so cool. A little bit of that is okay I guess, such as when a young major league hits his first-ever home run and the camera pans to his mom and dad for their reaction, that to me is barely okay, but then again, why should I even see who they are? For anything? Why should a bazillion others, many of whom do not have any of these people's best interests in mind -- why should they see who these people are and what they do? Really?
I know for decades this has really been the reality of a televised society, I get that. It is even worse now with web and cell phone and social media technology. With super-fast information processing and super-advanced graphic imagery that many foolishly call "A.I." it is virtually impossible to escape having everyone everywhere know who you are are where you are and all that.
It is extraordinarily frightening.
And very much why I do take this forum, for however many will come across it, to share some things related to morality and decency and respect that can be attached to this really neat thing we call the Kansas City Chiefs.
Why not? Why not speak about them? Why not make our Chiefs fandom and whatever it is related to Chiefs success something that is ultimately, transcendently, and eternally respectful and meaningful? That all of these people really actually in their hearts and souls actually stand for good things, for the benefit of anyone who tunes in however they do?
Some may say, "Hey, how can you say you don't want to see into their personal lives but then rail against gambling and crypto and all those other things? What if they choose to do that in their personal lives? You wouldn't know about it if they do it, right?"
I get that, I do. I've said before that my own Chiefs fandom gets the best of me sometimes. I just want the Chiefs to win, and a running back could be a serial killer as long as he scores 100 touchdowns for us. Yeah, I confess, that I'd even think that is disturbing. But that is much of the point, right?
The key difference is that the NFL and all the entities associated with it, like the Chiefs, do make pronouncements about their affections openly. Most of those things are fine -- "Maybe you'd like to consider driving this very nice touring vehicle." Some of those things, however, are rotten.
Sure I could just cut out the whole thing -- why watch? Why say I enjoy it when there is the objectionable ugliness? Again, I like the Chiefs and football. But let's face it, there are those things that make for integrity and character and good things that anyone and everyone expect from these people. That today's information technology world makes that whole thing so crazy now does affect what we think and do with it, and I confess I struggle with it, sure.
This doesn't mean we can't hold true to good things, lift them up, share their meaning especially in forums like a simple pro football blog. All of this, really, does make all the musings about who our backup quarterback is really going to be something that is authentically enjoyable.
I can't deny that there is much, much fun in trying to figure out who makes the 53-man roster and where they will succeed most. It is amazing what Brett Veach and Andy Reid have done to form this football team. Indeed you can read about all those things much more at places like Arrowhead Pride, which I think is a terrific site except I really don't like how much too many of the AP people so unjustly disrespect Clyde Edwards-Helaire. But then, that's their take, I get it.
Maybe some of them will get on board with making happen the substance of my takes. That'd be cool, for the Kingdom, and for much more beyond just pro football.
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