Monday, April 04, 2005
4 April 2005
I'm really sick of hearing about steroids in professional sports. First the Panthers' punter, now Alex Sanchez, a 5'-10" 180lb centerfielder? That's like the cops giving people jaywalking tickets while drug dealers and murders are running around the streets. Why not suspend Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi? Someone who matters, not a struggling borderline major-leaguer like Sanchez who is set to make $600,000 this year. Hit the sport where it hurts. Make a statement. Steroids are clearly a problem in professional sports, particularly baseball. In my eyes, baseball lost credibility with the strike in 1994. Maybe I'm bitter because I was never very good at baseball... but I used to enjoy watching the Mets and the Braves (on TBS of course). Since then I only watch the playoffs. The homerun race and bonanza of the last several years may have pulled baseball out of the post-strike doldrums, but now baseball is paying the price with the steroids scandal. Back when Big Mac and Sammy were smashing bombs out of every park in the nation, no one was worried about steroids. There was a little commotion that the two of them were using Creatine and/or Andro, OTC supplements that you can get at your GNC health store and that probably hit record sales that year as kids all over the country were going to the mall to get their magic powder. Mac and Sammy were probably laughing all the way to the bank thinking that they were getting away with using steroids while people were asking about this other stuff. Baseball wasn't concerned at that point, nor when Barry was clobbering pitches and records on his way to 70. Baseball, tv, advertisers, the media, fans, everyone was loving it, even if they hated Barry, no one wanted to talk about steroids. Whats to stop players from using them then? Look at the example we set... Now we want to clean it up and point fingers? Good timing. If you really want to fix it, don't suspend some puny centerfielder, go after the big boys, and hit them where it hurts. Clean it up NOW, the right way and make a statement. FIX IT. Or leave it alone and accept it, and the consequences that come with it.
I'm really sick of hearing about steroids in professional sports. First the Panthers' punter, now Alex Sanchez, a 5'-10" 180lb centerfielder? That's like the cops giving people jaywalking tickets while drug dealers and murders are running around the streets. Why not suspend Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi? Someone who matters, not a struggling borderline major-leaguer like Sanchez who is set to make $600,000 this year. Hit the sport where it hurts. Make a statement. Steroids are clearly a problem in professional sports, particularly baseball. In my eyes, baseball lost credibility with the strike in 1994. Maybe I'm bitter because I was never very good at baseball... but I used to enjoy watching the Mets and the Braves (on TBS of course). Since then I only watch the playoffs. The homerun race and bonanza of the last several years may have pulled baseball out of the post-strike doldrums, but now baseball is paying the price with the steroids scandal. Back when Big Mac and Sammy were smashing bombs out of every park in the nation, no one was worried about steroids. There was a little commotion that the two of them were using Creatine and/or Andro, OTC supplements that you can get at your GNC health store and that probably hit record sales that year as kids all over the country were going to the mall to get their magic powder. Mac and Sammy were probably laughing all the way to the bank thinking that they were getting away with using steroids while people were asking about this other stuff. Baseball wasn't concerned at that point, nor when Barry was clobbering pitches and records on his way to 70. Baseball, tv, advertisers, the media, fans, everyone was loving it, even if they hated Barry, no one wanted to talk about steroids. Whats to stop players from using them then? Look at the example we set... Now we want to clean it up and point fingers? Good timing. If you really want to fix it, don't suspend some puny centerfielder, go after the big boys, and hit them where it hurts. Clean it up NOW, the right way and make a statement. FIX IT. Or leave it alone and accept it, and the consequences that come with it.
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