The real heroes in this story are the players who were not afraid to take steroids because of some old-fashioned notion of fair play….

the fact remains, that these high and mighty protectors of the faith did nothing when the roids issue was first being talked about.

they all continue to look at baseball being the only pure sport, despite evidence to the contrary

the sport has never been pure

The dichotomy is that OBM has been extremely consistent with its observations and conclusions during the entire alleged steroids era. This comes not so much from clairvoyance nor some kind of Einstein-like scientific insight, but rather from the observations of an individual who follows the road map of a consistent and viable life-ethic and belief system. In doing so, he has found that difficult and “unconventional” as that may seem according to pop culture, it is the best and surest way to arrive at one’s destination. Accordingly, when watching MLB owners and Mass Media locked in a death dance of bullshit, backstabbing, and Bonds-hating, it comes as no surprise that we end up with is a 304 page waste of paper that took over a year and millions of dollars in the making on one hand. And a straightforward essay that exposes all the fakers who contributed to this affront to one’s intelligence.

Not surprisingly, elitists in mass media and elsewhere, reveal themselves to be as vindictive, hateful, superstitious and small-minded as their predecessors in 17th century Salem Massachusetts. They continue to slime Barry Bonds with hardly any of what could be reasonably passable pseudo-evidence. No testimony against him by other than a discredited former girl friend. Yet these same freaks seek to exonerate and excuse Roger Clemens in spite of an abundance of the so-called pseudo evidence put forth in Mitchell’s Report. The accusations against Bonds in this report are as mentioned previously, a rehash of the Fanny-Wadda, Williams Fairy Tale.

The report was a farce. John did a masterful job of breaking down the pieces and putting them into the context of the real picture. A morally bankrupt sports media and a vacuous, insipid greedy Commissioner. The two have relentlessly sought to destroy the players union, discredit player agents’, and dehumanize players. And until the day, fans understand that dynamic, they will continue to wonder why players do not for the most part, cozy up to media, fans, and the general public. Or when they do speak, it is in bland cliches in an atmosphere of mistrust and barely tolerable antipathy. It is an adversary relationship. And it is going to get a lot worse. Media and the Commissioner and the scurrilous player-hating Mitchell have sought to slander ALL of the players through insinuation and out and out misrepresentation through this whole process.

And lost in all of it was any serious discussion of Sports Medicine which is where this all should have been focused in the first place. Ridiculous people for ridiculous times. Fools. All of them. How ironic that the people who slime the game are people who cannot play it. That is the simple truth.

http://fourreasonswhy.com/2007/12/14/there-should-be-no-asterisks-in-baseball/