Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I Don't Care Anymore!!!

Okay, so just in case you live under a rock and haven't heard, this weekend Sports Illustrated reported that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in the experimental round of testing conducted in 2003...A report that A-Rod would later confirm...How this plays out remains to be seen...But you know what? I'm not that upset with A-Rod. Or Clemens. Or Pettitte, or Bonds, or any of the other players who took steroids in the 90's-00's. I want to stop hearing about it. As a member of the media, I understand it's what's news and has to be reported accordingly, but I could really, honestly could care less. I'm tired of players being villified for taking them. I'm not going to make excuses for them, they made their beds and now they have to lie in them, but we all have skeletons in the closet. And it still astounds me how biases steroids reports are toward baseball. No one cares if a football player or hockey player tests positive. Case in point? Rodney Harrison, one of the most well known and most talented safeties in the NFL and an icon in New England, tested positive and was suspended at the start of the 2007 season, and barely anyone remembers that, he wasn't interrogated by Congress, and he hasn't been villified by any means, at least not around here. But if any player with name value in MLB tests positive, they might as well have a seat with their name on it in Washington, and they are permanently tarnished in the game. It's hypocritical, it's biased, it's wrong, and I'm tired of it...
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  1. Steve HannanFebruary 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    first of all hot shot, i would say that too if almost all the players caught were in a yankees uniform at one time or another. as for the other sports, it's more accepted. steroids in hockey or in football has always been apart of the game because, basically, they are more physical games. don't worry though, i'd be a little bitter to if a Clemens or A-Rod type player was caught red-handed on my team. here's a kleenex

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  2. MattieFebruary 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM

    ^burn....haha. Steroids=bad time. You are right though, I don't watch baseball/basketball/football but I hear about the steroids thing all the time. Boo

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