Grading isn't about the money, it's about the passion!

Why care about sports? Cause sometimes you think about all the pressure and stress you are facing in your day to day life, and then you realize how luck you are your horrible breakdowns won't be the focus of months of media coverage. It is a bit silly to feel bad for someone who makes millions a year and will probably pick up the highest individual achievment reward for his profession next week, but how can you not feel bad for Dirk? Who I don't feel bad for is Smush Parker, who still doesn't seem to get it. As the Lakers struggle to figure out how to get Toronto to trade them Chris Bosh or Orlando to give up Dwight Howard for Brian Cook and the 19th overall pick, one thing is crystal:

One thing Jackson did make clear -- Smush Parker will not return next season. Parker started 162 straight regular-season games before being removed in favor of rookie Jordan Farmar with two games left in the regular season.

Parker, an unrestricted free agent, said he lost motivation late in the season.

"The game wasn't fun anymore," he said. "I don't play for the money. I play for the passion, the love of basketball."

When asked if in a perfect world he'd return to the Lakers, Parker paused before saying: "I don't know. Next question."

So Parker lost motivation before the beginning of the F-IN PLAYOFFS because he plays for the love? Does that make any sense to anyone?

His comments reminds me of some of the student papers I've been reading this week. Some are full of statements that are so powerfully empty of any sense of logic, reason, or fact it just boggles the mind. It kind of related to the recent Indian University study that found Bill O'Reilly goes to name calling 8.88 times per minute (nearly twice as much as good ol' anti-Semite Father Coughlin). In a country where 40% consider this guy a journalist (compared to 30% who say the same about Bob Woodword) and the starting point guard for the Lakers quits before the playoffs because he doesn't "feel the passion", why not turn in a paper on a topic you know nothing about, with no research, poorly written, full of unsubstantiated opinion, condesending to the reader, and expect to receive an A? You feel you deserve it in your gut, and you can just demand a detailed explanation for why your shitty work doesn't get what you feel from your loser TA who made a terrible life choice.

Too bitter?