Blake Griffin Charged with Misdemeanor Battery

[theFRANCHISE]

It was in a strip club. You don't take pictures in strip clubs. The guy deserved to be slapped.

TAO is not a strip club, its just a regular night club in one of the hotels. It's a really small club too, compared to the mega clubs they have now. I really hate that these type of people are trying to make money off celebrities.

[Neddy]

Yup. Certainly odd. Although I don't think AD necessarily meant harm, but he definitely went way overboard.

Hope Blake is kept free

Im sure people will be up in arms especially that i am in a health care industry as a provider but Im old school in this matter.

I grew up piss poor thanks to my dad being a 10th grade drop out after beating his homeroom teacher unconscious, and never mustered more than a minimum wage job, but i remember when i was about 6 or 7, all i ever wanted was a baseball and a bat to go with it, but i never had money as i was raised by my grandmother who never bought me a single toy. one thanksgiving night i couldn't resist the temptation of seeing a plastic toy bat with 3 plastic balls with a air pump to raise the ball from the ground for months in its window display, I snuck in and stole 5 dollars from my aunt's purse. i ran down to the toy store and bought the damn thing. next thing i remember, my mother saw me playing with the toy in the yard that i didn't have before the family dinner, got found out, then was told by her to break of 12 switches from the yard. i got beaten so hard that i couldn't walk at all for the next three days let alone bleeding calves that needed medical attention ( bactrim cream and band-aid) but I'll tell you what. I never stole a thing since then. from then on it was always about hard work to earn what i want by my ownself, the right way.

I understand different people react differently from the same disciplinary stimuli, but in my personal case, it was the best thing that ever happened.

PS- although i believe in tough love, I have never spanked my own kids the way my mother did to me that day, because my kids have never done a thing that was as bad as what i did. the economical back ground changes things too. my kids never had to steal anything as what they desire was provided as long as they were good. not in my childhood. i needed that. otherwise i would have been no better than my classmates who turned out to be career criminals.

I have a very decorated history with Papa Griffin's (my name is QG, work with me here) belt.

As I inch closer to 30 (i have a few years to go), I look back on all of them because I remember all of them. Some of them I'm very thankful for and some of them I didn't think were necessary. Out of the ones that aren't necessary, I often wonder what my parents were going through in terms of their work, their business and their relationship. I often wonder, is it even a problem that I'm thinking about it now.


But...you know....whatever. I had a great childhood. Didn't want for much....well...wait...Didnt need for much. My parents wanted to stay away from the stigma of black folks lining up for Jordans and giving us every pair. So even though we could afford it (obviously), I was never able to rock them to school.

Funny how when I was young and didn't know any better, I thought kids with Jordans and the latest gear had it as good as I did. I couldn't have been more wrong.

/rant
/lifestory

I can't say anything about Papa Griffin as the only common ground I know of him is that he and I both went to the same dental school and that's it... but i must tell you, I just instantly grew infinite respect for your pops over that line. I hate people who perpetuate stereotypes as well as people who are prejudice by it. on the other hand, I love people who doesn't have a preconceived notion about people and those who work hard to fight and revert those stereotypes.

as for his belts, I can't say a thing about it but hey you are a proud Gaucho and now a Badger, about to take the bar and become a lawyer in a year or two. I think your pops did pretty damn good with you, man. I can only hope that my own kids can reach that high as well.

[Neddy]

It was in a strip club. You don't take pictures in strip clubs. The guy deserved to be slapped.

TAO is not a strip club, its just a regular night club in one of the hotels. It's a really small club too, compared to the mega clubs they have now. I really hate that these type of people are trying to make money off celebrities.

TAO is at Venitian. the club and the hotel both suck some big balls imo.

of all the hotels in Vegas I have been to, I personally like the Mandalay Bay the best. rooms are clean and functional while being clean and just enough luxury, but the view is the best on the strip. that venue where clips played their exhibition game was not very good, tho. there was only 1 narrow hall way in or out. other than that, I liked their bars and restaurants. one complain i have, is that there was no decent sports bar in Mandalay.

compared to that, Venitian can suck my ****