I just want to start by saying I have the flu and am also behind with my regular responsibilities, so excuse this week's blog. I never really think things out before I start writing, this week is no exception, but with the flu — things could get messy. I will press on, however, just as Joe Montana did when he led the Irish to a come-from-behind victory over the Houston Cougars while suffering from hypothermia.
I will press on just as Michael Jordan did when he was battling the flu during Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals with the Utah Jazz. The series was tied at 2-2 and Jordan was a physical wreck, if you recall, but scored 38 points to lead the Bulls to an 88-85 victory.
I will press on as Pete Sampras did in the 1996 US Open when he was sick to his stomach in every sense of the phrase but still won the match, which went all the way to a tiebreaker.
I will rise to the occasion just as Tiger Woods did with a torn ACL in the US Open last year.
Alright. That's enough rambling.
Alex Rodriguez is a jerk, a bum, a steroid user, a liar, I don't like him but he is still the best baseball player in the MLB right now and I would welcome him with open arms to Houston if for some reason he was to be fired by the Yankees.
The fact that he has done steroids does not surprise me at all. I don't know why others are shocked. His ego is as big or bigger than Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens put together.
Plus, the way things were in the late 90s and early 2000s, if you were a clean baseball player, you were cheating yourself and your team.
Their were umpires who were probably even doing steroids in the early 2000s. I know the guys behind the plate always have a massive, terminator type physique in the shoulder and chest area.
I don't think that is a coincidence at all.
Anyway, I wish that steroids would have never been involved in the sport I love so much because it has left a bad taste in my mouth and it has put an asterisks on any records that have been broken — basically — in my lifetime — so far.
I mean, I can picture sitting around the house with my grandchildren one day, talking about the good ole days and all the records and the children's responses will be, 'but grandpa, they all did steroids.'
Then they will make fun of the fact that I am an Astros fan, which will lead me to putting them up for adoption for being disrespectful.
The road ahead is looking dark for baseball and even worse for me.
Three of the best baseball players in my lifetime did steroids and are already having a negative effect on the grandchildren I may not even have.
The nerve.
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I want to take your last statement furter. Barry Bonds, my favorite all time, is the best player ever. But even before the juice he was still going to end up as top 5 argueable all time. I mean he was going to get 600hr 500stolen bases. I feel he was robbed this year of not reaching 2000 rbis or 300 hits.
ReplyDeleteClemons may be top 3 pitchers all time. And A-rod is or was on his way to surpassing Bonds.
But I need to know from 1990 till 2005 do you know with out a doubt that the guys that have made the hall of fame from that era weren't juicing? You either put them all in or none. Either they all get penalized or none. Selective justice is actually an injustice. What is happening to A-Rod is just, but what about the other 103. Why weren't these tests destroyed if it were a poll taken 6 years ago? Baseball, to me, is digging its own grave. Your an Astros fan, can you say without a doubt you know Biggio wasn't a user? or Bagwell? I believe they both were.