Why Some People Hate Sports

Whitney Houston was right. Children are the future. Elements of a "bizarre prison culture" like the one referenced in this story from CNN.com can begin to develop on any elementary school playground. For the sake of our prison system, and our collective ability to pull together a weekend game of softball (or football, or basketball, or stickball, or badminton, etc.), let's all pitch in to nip this sort of behavior in the bud.

Some excerpts:

First, the Headline: "Ex-Florida prison boss: Drunken orgies tainted system." Looks promising, but not sports related; Until one reads further.

"McDonough described a bizarre prison culture among those that ran the system -- one that he says seemed obsessed with inter department softball games and the orgies after games. . . .

'I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become,' he said. 'People were promoted on the spot after a softball game at the drunken party to high positions in the department because they were able to hit a softball out of the park a couple times.' . . .

The connection between the softball and the parties and the corruption and the beatings was greatly intertwined. . .

The parties and orgies were often carried out at a waterfront ranch house built on prison grounds for a former warden with taxpayer dollars, McDonough said. The house was complete with a bar, pool table and hot tub. . . . [E]mployees who didn't attend softball games or play on the teams were 'isolated' and 'pushed aside."

Yeesh.

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