Here's one good thing about being Jason Grimsley...you know for sure that your season is over and that your career is in ruins. By all accounts there are twenty or so big-leaguers named in Grimsley's affidavit who are waiting for a team of special agents to appear on their doorstep asking to look in their medicine cabinets.
There is no way to avoid talking about drugs in any baseball-related conversation. Every time a middle reliever loses three MPH off a fastball it's because he stopped juicing. Every injury that doesn't involve obviously broken bones is looked at skeptically. Are you a power-hitter having an off year, or a marginal player having a magical season? Get ready for the whispers.
It has already been rumoured that Clemens late return was due to a failed drug test and that Pujols' injury is a sham to cover his suspension. Obviously, I don't know. Seeing video of Pujols certainly provokes some kind of suspicion: for God's sake he was running and pulled a muscle in his side so badly that he's gotta miss more than a month? People recover from heart surgery faster than that.
I want to see the game cleaned up, but I don't want my team disgraced. That is the fan's dilemma now. Something tells me that Giambi has a crate of HGH at his house, but Manny and Tek? No way, right? Well, don't be so sure. If the Bonds and Grimsley cases have taught baseball fans anything it's that steroids and HGH are friggin' everywhere and it shouldn't be any surprise when the next superstar to take a fall turns out to be your superstar.
It's a sad reality that drug scandals overshadow the games right now and it won't be long until the same pall falls across the NFL. It's gonna be a long hot summer for a lot of players, and maybe the novelty of these scandals has worn off, but I just want my game back.
There is no way to avoid talking about drugs in any baseball-related conversation. Every time a middle reliever loses three MPH off a fastball it's because he stopped juicing. Every injury that doesn't involve obviously broken bones is looked at skeptically. Are you a power-hitter having an off year, or a marginal player having a magical season? Get ready for the whispers.
It has already been rumoured that Clemens late return was due to a failed drug test and that Pujols' injury is a sham to cover his suspension. Obviously, I don't know. Seeing video of Pujols certainly provokes some kind of suspicion: for God's sake he was running and pulled a muscle in his side so badly that he's gotta miss more than a month? People recover from heart surgery faster than that.
I want to see the game cleaned up, but I don't want my team disgraced. That is the fan's dilemma now. Something tells me that Giambi has a crate of HGH at his house, but Manny and Tek? No way, right? Well, don't be so sure. If the Bonds and Grimsley cases have taught baseball fans anything it's that steroids and HGH are friggin' everywhere and it shouldn't be any surprise when the next superstar to take a fall turns out to be your superstar.
It's a sad reality that drug scandals overshadow the games right now and it won't be long until the same pall falls across the NFL. It's gonna be a long hot summer for a lot of players, and maybe the novelty of these scandals has worn off, but I just want my game back.
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