The Arod Vendetta
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I want to say a brief word about the Arod situation, and then I never want to hear about it again.
Major league baseball officials are preparing to meet with Arod to discuss his use of performance enhancing drugs. Bud Selig has said Arod’s actions were shameful. What a hypocrite!
Bud Selig was the one running the show when the steroids epidemic happened. He and his fellow owners were willing to turn a blind eye to the situation as long as Mark Magwire and Sammy Sosa were putting fans in the seats. Now Selig is shocked. Rather like Claude Raines in Casablanca, who was shocked to find there was gambling at Rick’s.
I think we can all agree that performance enhancing drugs were bad for baseball. The records set in the late 90s will always be viewed as tainted. But baseball appears to have cleaned up the situation, so ENOUGH ALREADY. The media fixation with what happened in the past is pointless now.
We could all demand that the list of 104 players who tested positive in 2003 be released. We could endlessly speculate about how David Ortiz suddenly went from a scrub in Minnesota to a star in Boston at age 27. But why bother.
It’s time to put steroids behind us. Baseball season is coming. Bud Selig should get a life.
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August 23, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Very useful info. Desire to see a lot more posts rapidly!
March 27, 2012 at 8:55 pm
wrote:@ Betsy:Look at you with your stealth trowark I did what you asked. SortaI admit when I got here, and saw the graphics! I was surprised. Now I understand! The San Francisco Giants were eliminated, I believe, from any post season, as of yesterday. Timmy is pitching his last start against the D’backs today. He can go all out! Which he does a lot. Question is (and the same one for all of the second half of the season especially, but also of the first half before the break), will there be any offense? And since I have the Beach Haus ** resident Expert ** on the line here (I like her version of Inside Baseball best) have there been any other teams this season who have had as much bad luck injuries as the SF Giants (I’m sure there are other teams that have bad luck calls too, but the SF Giants sure looked to have more than their fair share of those too, odd stuff) ? Except for the pitchers, mostly, the end of season (hell, end of first 1/3, 1/2, 3/4 of the season) line up is not the same as the beginning of the season line up nor the World Series line up. It has been a very bad season for some of the players, Buster Posey especially. On the bright side, I am really impressed with some of the younger up-and-comers that the SF Giants have played. Y’all better watch out they are coming, they are good, now they have Big League Experience, and they are ALL HUNGRY!!!! Given the status and loss of so many of the World Series players, I am really amazed that they hung in for so long and actually got so close to the playoffs. and all that stuff. ** San Francisco Giants I have not decided which team to go with from NL or AL for the playoffs and World Series. Will have to think about it.