…. and Happy everything else.
George Vescey made my day with this op-ed piece:
…. Admire them as athletes. The player you are booing for having a bad day on the field was probably the best athlete in his home state or his province in Latin America or his prefecture in Japan. He worked hard to get this far, chemicals or not. I riffle through the Mitchell report and see Mike Stanton, Brian Roberts, David Segui, Andy Pettitte, Lenny Dykstra, guys I’ve enjoyed watching, enjoyed interviewing. Some of them opted for an edge. Cheated, that is to say.
Some of them should probably be suspended for a while, but it was baseball’s fault for not having testing and penalties in place. There is room for complexity in the way we regard ballplayers. Tell that to the kiddies. And stop with the outrage.
Amen.
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the most interesting point made in that article was about mantle and the 61 ws
so in order to keep up with his crazy lifestyle, the mick occasionally got injections of stimulants….but he was no cheater….right???
enuf is enuf….ballplayers have done anything and everything to keep an edge and have done it since the beginnings of organized sports
and why is no one going after the pats and their ability to beat an unstoppable team on what appears to be better chemisty
and better vid cameras
please splain how them losing their 1st round pick punishes. Since they have the Niners 1st round, the loss of their no. one pick was superflous.
Of course I keep forgetting the Pats are in NEW ENGLAND !!!!
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