Wow.......Just Wow.........What were they thinking....

Welcome to my blog post entitled What were they thinking?  It will cover an array of topics including everything from Sports, to Regular Topics and everything in between!! Some posts will only have a few topics on this, other times there will be many topics. If you have one you would like placed in an upcoming blog post, please send it to me at cupofjoeinthed@gmail.com or at;  @cupofjoeinthed on twitter.

Sports

•  Bryce Harper gets ejected from an MLB game and then comes back on the field and goes on a tirade at the umpires, MLB needs to suspend him for 8 games if not more
•  Detroit Tigers players think by showing up to play and collect a paycheck is all they need to do?
•  Tigers choose to not play fundamental baseball anymore and try to win on hope and a prayer? 
•  Red Wings looking to continue minor tweaks to an aging and underachieving team?
•  Red Wings name new arena, Little Caesars Arena? Why not Pizza Pizza Palladium? 
•  Detroit Pistons after 2 years under Stan VanGundy still haven't learned to play defense?
•  An NBA Player should be docked pay for not be able to make at least 65% of their Free Throws?
•  Lions draft was solid early on, but taking a long snapper in the 6th round and a fumbling RB in the 7th?
•  Penn State University still in denial about the damage caused by Sandusky and Paterno and now documented reports surface of payments all the way back to 1971? Really PSU, Really??? 
• Tom Brady's court decision is overturned and He will serve a 4 game suspension, He and the NFLPA are going to appeal, just delaying the inevitable!!
• Goodell receives $34.1 M from the NFL in compensation for the year of 2014 and rumored $44M+ for 2015? He must love being the Owners puppet for all that money....money...money.....
• Detroit Lions after another dismal poor season raise tickets again screwing over faithful fans for what?
• NCAA has been taking way to long to dish out the punishment for the repeated academic cheating at North Carolina, why the delay???
• Louisville Cardinals self imposed 1 yr ban on postseason to its basketball team for paid sex with escorts! Really? No Way!! Mighty swell of them!! NCAA , time to flex some muscle and give them a 3 yr ban and eliminate some scholarships and suspend Pitino for a season.
• NBA decides to sell ad space on the players jerseys, must need to make the Owners more money...
• NFL needs to step up along with NFLPA and deal with these players instead of pushing problem players issues under the rug!!!
• Johnny Manziel charged with domestic abuse, tweets about taking his shirt off in court, once a jerk always a jerk, He just doesn't get it!!
• Southern Mississippi hit with serious violations from the NCAA for academic fraud, lying and obstruction by the University?
•  Laremy Tunsil is seen during NFL Draft doing a bong and slips 10 spaces in draft, he then goes on in front of millions and accuses Ole Miss of paying him during his time playing there, Wow just Wow!!
• Did Ole miss hid results of Tunsils drug tests?
• Ole Miss charged with 30 violations by the NCAA  in 3 athletic sports, seems colleges will do anything to get an advantage nowadays.
• Texas A&M Coach goes on social media tirade and numerous recruits decide to go elsewhere to play after Coach once again says stupid things.when will the Aggies say enough is enough?
• Raiders Owner trying to screw over all of California but looking at Las Vegas as their next home, is it really smart to screw over the hand of the NFL and all those Raider Nation fans?
• NHL seems to have 2 different discipline rules, one for any team that plays against the Penguins and one for the Penguins that is just a slap on the wrist.. NHL is 2nd coming of the NFL on punishment!
• MLB Owners are spending money on Free Agents like it is monopoly money and then raise prices to their fans and cry poor mouth during the season.
• MLB wants to put expansion teams in Vancouver and Montreal yet some teams can't even fill their seats on a regular basis including Opening day...
• Wolverines HC Harbaugh back to his old ways of promising recruits everything to get them to commit at Michigan just as He did at SDSU and Stanford, then see some recruits decommit when they realized he lied to them and their families?
• Harbaugh pushes the envelope when it came to satellite camps and NCAA came down hard on him! Harbaugh thinks the sun doesn't shine unless He commands it to, why why why???
• Browns take 5 WR's in the 2016 NFL Draft out of their 10 picks?
• Some College football coaches think they are bigger in life than NFL Coaches and expect to be paid more than the NFL Coaches?

Topics

•  George Zimmerman to auction off gun He used to kill Trayvon Martin, what is He thinking???
• Why do People think they can stand at a store and sample the product over and over and not pay for it? Why do they think they are entitled to this?
• City of Detroit announces plans again to shut off over 23,000 delinquent residential homes for not playing their water bills, yet continue to allow Businesses to not pay their water bills.
• Public Official puts prayer put on his personal Facebook page and critics go after him for doing so?
• GOP Cruz and Kasich combine resources to beat Trump but a week later both bow out the Presidential race and acknowledge Trump is the guy?
• MSP trooper alleges bias and racial profiling to raise quotas and bonuses for Post Commanders..
• Michigan Legislature wants to pass a bill that would take 8 years to fix the DPS and also circumvent the the Teachers Union allowing no Union say so going forward! They are crazy!!! 
• Michigan Legislature write a bill to keep DPS teachers paid but with so many strings attached it is a joke!
• State of Michigan and Gov. Snyder put Detroit Public School issues at the hands of the State lawmakers who couldn't agree how to fix the roads and we think they can help fix the Detroit public Schools?
• Detroit Public Schools allegedly block health inspectors from entering deplorable conditions in the school but want to force teachers and students to be in them all day long! Why!!!  Why!!!  Why!!!
• Government arrests a Man for a $1500 outstanding student loan! Are You kidding me? why not go after the ones who screwed everyone on Wall Street and those who keep moving their Corporation HQ outside of the USA to avoid paying taxes? 
• Communication is a joke between the Mayor of Flint, the State of Michigan and the EPA as reported by Fox 2 Detroit's Charlie LeDuff! 
• Who and why does there seem to be a cover up as to the relationship between the Flint Water Crisis and the high numbers of Legionaries Disease and those who died from this disease? Communication shows the City, the State and Washington and area Hospitals were all aware of this!!!
• Federal Government rejects Michigan's plea for help with WIC Resources to help Children with potential high levels in their bodies due to bad water in Flint, Michigan. Doesn't sound like they want to address how the EPA also failed the City of Flint and their residents as well!!
• The City of Cleveland agrees to pay family of Tamir Rice who was shot and killed by the Cleveland Police $6M but denies any wrongdoing, are You kidding Me??
• What was the State of Michigan thinking when they knew how bad the lead level was in the City of Flint's drinking water and waited months to help out, yet sent in bottled water to State employees working in Flint months before?
• Presidential candidates for both the GOP and the Dems continuing to lie to the People, shift blame, not open up about their agendas and platforms and ask Voters to trust them and not the others?
• Social Media has allowed People to think they are Political advisers and know it all's whose Candidate is the one to vote for because they go with party lines and not what the Candidate is really about or can offer as POTUS!!!!
• Presidential candidates using the Flint Water Crisis to further their own political agendas instead of going to Flint and actually being part of the solution?
• State of Michigan and the Emergency Manager assigned to the Detroit Public Schools continuing to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the deplorable conditions in the schools, low balling the pay and benefits to the teachers compared to other big cities and districts,  lack of school text books and learning tools year in and year out and removing security to ensure schools and the surrounding areas are safe for the students in and out of the schools? What are they thinking????????
• Hillary Clinton continuing to think the American People are stupid in regards to the email fiasco that continues to haunt her and the new damaging response from the Postmaster General in regards to a possible indictment about what  she actually used her personal email for?
• Sarah Palin announces she will go after GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan for not supporting Trump!
• That all these Presidential candidate debates are not scripted for the most part and that the people enjoy seeing all the lies and attacks on each other? Here is a news flash for the Dems and GOP, the People are tired of all this crap!
• Groups and others continue to complain about the smallest and most insignificant things to companies and businesses forcing them to change or face the wrath of social media.. In doing so, it usually drives the price of the products up.. We are becoming too soft and thin skinned as a Society........