All this no handshaking is really making people angry

The lack of handshaking in sports has been in the news lately as both Lebron James and Sidney Crosby skipped out on handshakes after their respective playoff series. Now James was probably distraught from losing to Orlando in the Eastern Conference Finals and Crosby was just excited he won the Stanley Cup at age 21 - but hey! This is tradition! This is a sign of respect!

Boy, all these sports traditionalists sure get the panties in a twist, because obviously if they hadn't had their careers derailed in middle school, they certainly would have shook hands.

When it comes down to it, it's not that the lack of handshakes were a show of bad judgement but rather a sign that our society with pick apart people any chance we get. And you wonder why so many athletes are reclusive and shy away from any disclosure of their public life? This is why.

Because people (in the media and fans) are so insanely obsessed about something as meaningless as a handshake, and since they've apparently done nothing wrong or questionable in their life (ha!) they can rain down judgement on anyone they want.

Give me a break, go back to complaining about cornrows and players with tattoos. Let me know when you get out of the 1940s.

To the sports columnist that criticizes Lebron for not shaking hands

(1) Look at that photo to your right. The only time you got that far up in the air was when you were reaching for double sprinkles at Dunkin Donuts.

(2) Don't talk about sportsmanship and your softball beer league or the time you played JV basketball. If I wanted to know how washed-up, nonathletic, uncoordinated people played sports, I'd watch the Washington Nationals.

(3) Lebron's ego is so inflated because he has a Muppet of himself? What? Bird would shoot with the other hand because he was bored and that's not disrespectful or showing that he has a big ego?

(4) So tell me again why you chose Cleveland to beat Orlando in the series? You didn't flip flop at all did you? No sir, you're a member of the media.

(5) Classless? Kind of like attacking A-rod with a book with hearsay and unnamed sources?

(6) How many times do you shake the hand of the other newspaper reporter that scooped you on a story? Exactly.