CBS columnist bashes gambling, WSOP

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The author, Gregg Doyel, is well-known for being a huge douche. I have flamed him on the message boards and sent him hate mail directly on many occasions.

Last year he wrote an article that said, in essence, that because Ryan Howard was hitting a lot of home runs the presumption should be that he's using steroids or HGH.

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It's interesting how people's opinion changes based on which teat they are suckling at. The author is making his living (in part) off of bashing a tremendously talented and classy guy like Ryan Howard. Howard, in return, is being exploited by his employers, the Phila. Phillies, because even though he was tremendously talented, he spent 1.5 seasons stuck in the minor leagues while Jim Thome played 1B for the Phillies and management refused to trade him. As a consequence, instead of being arbitration eligible after his MVP season last year (and ROY season in '05), he had no recourse but to accept a 1 year extension at <$1M, probably the lowest salary for a reigning MVP since 1982 or something.

Meanwhile, the Phillies fans have it even worse. I mean, many of them are probably clinically "addicted" to baseball, shelling out $1000's of dollars a year on tickets, parking, concession, merchandise, etc. to feed their addiction. It's just these kind of sports crazed losers that will frequent said douche's website to read his articles. Of course, the house in this "game" has about the biggest edge anywhere as the Phillies are poised to lose the 10,000th game in their ignominious history and have won a championship exactly once in 125 years. Hell, even Hal Fowler could have won another bracelet if given that long.