It's called working a corner and keeping America's streets safe for children.

[Ralph Waldo Henderson]

Jason, I think you're absolutely write about Albom in this instance.

But I wish you would grant that at least some of us, perhaps many of us, who are after Bonds on steroids are also after any steroid cheats (McGwire, Sosa, major suspicions about Clemens, etc.). For instance, McGwire ain't gettin' in the Hall this year. The outcry about Bonds - while racially-tinged in some quarters, unfortunately - really has more to do with his chasing Aaron's record, and his overall dickishness.

 

[slappy4428]

After reading the Albom column in question, one thing struck me: that he wrote it in advance for whatever reason. He did the leg work on this prior to game two, could even have been before game one, filed and said that's it.
True, his head was in the sand on this.
But perhaps his busy schedule was as such that he had to breeze through this in order to get to a book signing or some similar everyone loves Mitch function. And he wasn't going to write a new column on a breaking story for NO-body.
It is possible/probable that he wasn't ignoring what happened with his column on AL/NL rules as much as he had that day's work done?

 

[goalmouth]

working my corner...I played football...blahblahblah...whitlock's posts are now as repetitious and tediously banal as his columns.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

jgmac

nice try. but i'm not saying bonds is helpless. i played football with a lot of steroid cheats and never felt it was necessary to go to the needle myself. my theme with bonds has been and is don't act like he's the worst offender because he's not. and the level of criticism directed toward bonds seems unfair. also, my point with black accountability is not a call for black people to walk on water and elevate their behavior above the community norms (poor inner-city communities are a part of a larger community. bonds operates in a professional baseball community that is totally corrupt. you have to fix the baseball community first. bonds is not trying to escape the major league baseball community and operate in the pga golf community, which is less corrupt when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs.) let's use sports writing as the example: my call is for black folks to quit hiding behind racism and go to work at your student newspaper, take a job in the sticks if you have to and work your way up the food chain the same way as most other sports writers.

And your empirical evidence that black sportswriters are not doing the latter -- or, more important, not trying to do the latter -- is what?
Agree with you about 80 percent on the original topic, though.

 

[shotglass]

After reading the Albom column in question, one thing struck me: that he wrote it in advance for whatever reason. He did the leg work on this prior to game two, could even have been before game one, filed and said that's it.

slappy, how unfair. Mr. Albom has NEVER cut a corner in his reportage.

 

[Stupid]

I thought Albom was best known for his freakish little ears

 

[blondebomber]

I think at some point, Jason, you're going to have to concede that people are going after Bonds mostly because they do not like him. Same reason why people here often go after Albom with as much venom as they do -- a more likable columnist might not get a pass here, but the piling on wouldn't happen so often.

Given Rogers' attack on the cameraman and the shitstorm that created, there are plentyof reasons not to like him, too. So why does he get let off the hook?

Great column.

 

[blondebomber]

I always thought looking the other way on Mike Scott in '86 was a travesty. Luckily, the Astros didn't win it all ... but he did win a Cy Young, I think.

I think the Rogers situation is the same thing. He should have been held accountable and punished.

 

[RokSki]

the "oral cheating" is a statement about bill clinton... he didn't consider oral sex the same as real sex...

jemele's blog is muchado about absolutely nothing.

Fair enough. I stand corrected. Good follow - up to Jg.