It was not so long ago when Great White Hunter Jonathan Papelbon told one of the best baseball writers around, a shocked CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer Scott Miller, who likely thought he had seen and heard everything, that in one hunting season Papelbon blasted 4,402 ducks.
Papelbon was probably lying his ass off.
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But what a tough guy this Papelbon is, huh?
Murderer of Daffy Duck.
And Daffy's cousins, too.
Funny thing is, while Papelbon was likely greatly exaggerating his kill numbers, even if he slaughtered only one-third of Daffy's family that is still hundreds, if not thousands, of dead ducks.
It's disgusting, yet what was the reaction from the public?
Crickets chirping. I would say ducks quacking but Papelbon might shotgun them.
Amazing, isn't it? One athlete, Atlanta's Michael Vick, could be involved in a disgusting, disgraceful dog fighting racket. The outrage over this possibility has been justifiably loud.
But the athletes that hunt -– and do not consume their kill, and trust me, there are a lot of them who do not -– get an incredible free pass despite the animal body count being thousands of times bigger than anything approaching dog fighting.
Why doesn't the disgust over the barbaric outrage that is dog fighting extend to athletes who hunt and do not eat what they kill?
Papelbon's needlessly bloody slaughter of ducks and God knows what else, as well as hunters who kill not to eat but for the sick joy of simply destroying an animal, is equally as disturbing as putting two dogs in a ring to fight.
