Chipper: steroid cloud will follow A-Rod

She wrote: "Our Air Force gives fighter jocks "go-pills" to get them through long missions, but we don't refuse to call them heroes because they're on speed." I think the obvious allusion here is to athletes on PEDs or whatever and not calling them heroes. To me, it's a comparison.

OK, we hold athletes to a different standard. I get that. But she doesn't explore why it is different, but rather gives these anecdotal statements.

Oh, and I understand what she wrote. I just don't think it was a great column. That doesn't make you wrong; it's just my opinion.

 

We also recruit convicted felons for our military.

We also elected a cokehead president.

What's her point?

 

The point is that our national attitude towards "drugs" is idiotically ambivalent, morally selective, and socially insane.

 

So we care more about sports than we do our military. Again, what's the point?

 

Her point, in the face of the ridiculously overblown hysteria surrounding Bonds, is that we haven't done a very good job putting this news in perspective.

I understand the reaction. The tone of her column probably sound harsh to the hysterics among us. Nonetheless, Sally Jenkins remains one of the top handful of columnists in the country. It's part of her job to make people feel uncomfortable or examine themselves once in a while.

 

I will reserve judgment until I see JDV and the voice of Rokski break this down for me on YouTube.

 

Was that really necessary?








































That's always the case.

 

I didn't mean to attribute the argument to you, although I can see why you might believe that I had , given the lack of clarity at the top of my post.
However, this sentence, and its sentiment, is still pretty bad:

"What I did say, is that in the current environment it is fair to ask anyone and everyone questions."

Absent anything but suspicion, and the invocation of an "era," it is, in fact, extremely unfair to ask someone if they've broken the law.

 

I was being a little sarcastic up there.

Jenkins is right, of course.

We let our children play with lead toys imported from China while we go into hysterics about a dog abuser.

We allow the Vice President of the United States to rip us off to the tune of billions while we take down a shock jock for using an objectionable phrase about a basketball team.

And yes, we sweat steroids in baseball while crystal meth fuels rapes and killings across the country.

Her point is such an understatement, it's almost offensive.

 

Baseball (or whatever sport) is the players' job -- not a privilege bestowed upon them. What they get paid and what their perks may be has no place whatsoever in the equation. You don't have more rights or less rights because you're good at what you do.

Players willingly subject themselves to direct media scrutiny every day not because they like it or because they have some sense of public obligation, but because their employers have requested that they do so in order to help promote and sell their product.