Where is the Roid Rage?
By ThrowsLikeAGirl
Jose Canseco nauseates me on so many levels. Jason Giambi has some serious issues with performance anxiety - or something. Sheffield, Bonds, McGwire — sure, the balls are flying high but the batters are juiced to their eyeballs. And Baseball's managers and coaches and front-office suits all do a pretty lame job of pretending they just don't know what's going on. It would be just so laughable — if it wasn't so outrageously offensive.
We're talking about 2 basic things here: 1. Cheating. 2. Lying.
For most of us, lying and cheating — and getting caught — would result in many an unpleasant situation, for example: expulsion from school, divorce, fired from your job, fined, jailed, publicly humiliated and shamed, not to be trusted ever again by decent folk. This is why we teach our precious little children NOT to cheat and lie.
If I had cheated on my SAT's, I don't think the college boards would have sent the transcript out with a little asterisk next to my score. If you lie on your taxes, a scary person from the IRS will show up with a calculator and take your house away. If you cheat on your spouse and try to cover it up with some wimpy excuses, get ready to pay — or maybe you'll come to a very messy end.
Society demands justice - in one way or another. So, I ask you fans, where is the outrage with all these lying, cheating, greedy baseball players? Where is the call for legal consequence?
There seems to be only mild curious interest in the Balco scandal. Canseco is cashing in by peddling the seedy imagery of his bathroom-stall shooting galleries. Barry Bonds is getting ready to break all kinds of hitting records this season. Giambi is just pathetically apologizing over and over — for what exactly? Well, he can't say the "S" word. Why are we still giving these guys a free ride? Why aren't we demanding that they be expelled from the game — disqualified — and kicked right out? Why aren't their teammates (assuming that there ARE still hard-training guys who don't incorporate a syringe into their workouts) screaming foul?
Does anyone think this is a big problem, this complete loss of credibility in America's game? If your little kid is a big Gary Sheffield fan, what will you tell him when the truth comes out that he was shooting something — something that is against the law to possess — into his muscles to make him a more powerful hitter. Do you use the word "cheater?" Or is he still a hero of the game — with a nice little * to let you know that he was really a lying, cheating fake?
