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The Yankees Jordan Richards Patriots Jersey , who have the highest payroll in the Major Leagues at $222 million, hit just .188 this postseason.

The average is the lowest in baseball history for a team that played a minimum of seven games. New York edged Baltimore in five games to advance past the ALDS, then hit just .157 in the ALCS against Detroit.

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Jesus Montero, currently rehabbing an oblique injury with the Class-A Everett AquaSox, reportedly got into a heated altercation Thursday with a Seattle Mariners scout.

Montero was coaching first base when the scout yelled at him to hustle off the field at the conclusion of the inning.

A game official said the scout then ordered an ice cream sandwich and had it sent to Montero in the dugout.

Montero made news for reporting to spring training 40 pounds overweight this season and did not appreciate the gesture.

He approached the stands with a baseball bat, screaming profanities, and threw the ice cream sandwich at the scout. Montero had to be restrained by the team's pitching coach.

Celebrities With Eating Disorders Aren`t The Only Ones With Disorders January 21, 2014 | Author: Mickey Jhonny | Posted in Celebrities

They are the butt of countless jibes and satirical pop culture references Malcom Brown Patriots Jersey , but there’s no doubt that a lot of celebrities, especially the females one, find their dieting practices fueled by the same driven personality traits that enable them to rise to the top of their craft.

This understandable, if unfortunate, fact of life, though, is all too often absurdly demonized by certain people who want to lay blame at the feet of the mass media and its unholy influence on people’s lives. In addition to the platitudes about showbiz glitz, the other supposed villain of the piece is the alleged puerile consumerism of the unwashed public who consume those media images. These patronizing assessments though cloud over more than they reveal; everything in the lives of successful film actors Cameron Fleming Patriots Jersey , singers, or other media celebrities is subjected to the drive and ambition which allows them to achieve their professional success.

Can it really be surprising then to discover that turning those personality traits to a determination to control their weight would unleash the same kind of obsessive focus? Christina Ricci, in her irreverent way, illustrated this hard driven personality feature of celebrity eating disorders when she remarked to the Guardian newspaper, in 2004, on how her own eating disorder experience began with an odd introspection while watching trash television. “At the time that I was starting to diet and stuff, I saw this TV movie, and I thought Ted Karras Patriots Jersey , ‘Ooh – anorexia. I could probably do that.’”

Ginger Spice, Geri Halliwell, in a different way and tone, likewise helped dispel the PC myth machine when she acknowledged that the cause of eating disorders, even among celebrities, can be the simple challenges of coping with the roller coaster like ups and downs of everyday life. Celebrity status surely has unique pressures, but is their careers so much more stressful than many jobs and professions? Whatever the stresses of celebrity life, they do not dictate the coping strategy adopted.

The backlash against the innocent Malcolm Mitchell Patriots Jersey , ironic tweet of the ever entertaining Lady Gaga, from 2012, though is typical of the victimizing machine of the mass media and the self-appointed morals police. Young girls everywhere, it would seem, are in constant danger of the corrupting influence of social expectations. Even Lady Gaga, already on record as encouraging girls to develop a healthier sense of body image, couldn’t acknowledge resisting a craving for a cheese burger without the self-appointed busy bodies raising hell. (Whether a cheese burger would actually constitute a healthy meal choice is of course another matter.)

So let’s try to be real, here. If they’re going to crucify a celebrity who it just so happens Jonathan Freeny Patriots Jersey , by the way, is already on the public record as cautioning her young fans toward vigilance against potential dangers of eating disorders for an innocent witticism regarding her own freely chosen dietary decisions, what is up? Why this strange obsession with denying celebrities the freedom to be responsible for their choices. There’s an uncompromising imperative that they be shown to be victims. I’m no mind reader, but I’m guessing the motivation behind this silliness is to legitimize the automatic treatment of any and all admirers of those same celebrities as also victims. Who though reaps the benefits from this relentless victimization?

The lesson in all of this, naturally, is not that celebrities are uniquely confronted with the trials of eating disorders. It is true though that such disorders are a product of the motivation and will power of the person making the food choices. It would be silly and a straw man to pretend that the view contrary to the busy body victimization crusade denied the role of environmental conditions in creating very real pressures. That though in no way changes the reality that in the end the bulimic or anorectic are making their choices. To claim anything else is to resort to two-bit mysticism.

And for those who think this assessment is unfair, who would dismiss it as a form of blaming the victim, perhaps you have the whole thing backwards. If the explanation for celebrities with eating disorders really was the mass media and the Hollywood glamour machine Joe Thuney Patriots Jersey , there could be no other solution than to leave Hollywood or working in the media. Yet, there are plenty of success stories in which celebrities were victorious in combating their eating disorders, without needing to retire from their careers. They may have needed a break from the stress of.