Welcome to Asshole Of The Week, where every Friday your trusty Foul Balls editor picks out the one person from the previous seven days who makes him think, "Man, what an asshole." It could be anybody from an athlete, an owner, someone in the media, or just anybody who happens to catch my ire.
Our inaugural Asshole is Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
I had the first Asshole Of The Week post written and all ready to go, with the maiden Asshole set to be NBA commissioner David Stern for the recent fiasco that is the impending move of the Seattle Supersonics to Oklahoma City. Then late on Thursday I saw a comment left in High Five from loyal reader and commenter, JayBandit. What was it about?
Well, Jay came across a blog post about our wonderful Governor Rod Blagojevich. Now, I've never been a big fan of Blago for various reasons. None of which really have anything to do with politics.
There's the fact that for some reason, even though he's the governor of the entire state of Illinois, he spends the majority of his time in Chicago instead of the state's capital, Springfield. A minor offense, sure, but it's an annoyance.
More recently, there was the law passed in the state of Illinois that prohibited smoking in public venues such as bars. As someone who smokes, and spends a lot of his time in bars, this pissed me off greatly. Aren't bars supposed to be a place where you can get away from the daily grind, and partake in some good old fashioned vice? Now I can't smoke there? What's next? No beer at baseball games?
Speaking of baseball, Blago's biggest crime before yesterday was the fact that he's a Cubs fan. No man that's in charge of the state where I live should root for the Cubs, because it's obvious from the onset that he can't be that intelligent. I don't want a loser running my state! I'm a winner! Illinois is a winner! We got corn, man! Corn! And soybeans!! We got plenty of hogs too, and they're all under the helm of some drooling Cubs fan.
Still, being a Cubs fan from Chicago is no reason to lose your life, or be named AOTW. I mean, I'm friends with plenty of Cubs fans, some of whom even write for this site. So if all the reasons above are horrible offenses, but not enough to be named Asshole Of The Week, why am I giving this "honor" to Blago?
Check this shit out, from the blog Urbanagora.
Urbanagora has learned from a credible source that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is a closet Dallas Cowboys fan. Even though he occasionally bets on the Bears, Blagojevich has been known to require interns, even those from Chicago, to clip news clippings about the Dallas Cowboys.
Our source reveals:
"When I interned for Blagojevich, in addition to clipping quotes about Chicago and Illinois politics, I was told to pull everything I could find about the Dallas Cowboys. On days I only found stories on current Chicago and Illinois events, I was told to look for Cowboys stories, but I was never asked for news about the Chicago Bears."
You son of a bitch. A Cowboys fan? A fucking Cowboys fan!? In my state!? Are you telling me that the walls of the Governor's mansion are covered in Tony Romo posters? If I voted, I'd kill somebody right now.
This isn't something that the great people of Illinois should tolerate from their governor, you either root for the Bears or move to fucking Iowa. There's no in between. It's bad enough that the southern part of our state is littered with moronic Rams fans, but to let the virus that is the Cowboys infect us as well?
I have to agree with the guys at Urbanagora, fuck this Rezko nonsense, this is the only reason we need for a recall election.
Governor Rod Blagojevich: You're an asshole.
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