I’ve always been a big fan of the game, and this latest series of revelations has cast yet another stone. I stopped believing in heroes long ago, but c’mon, this is embarrassing.
And it never crossed my mind, oddly, that any of these guys would be in the “I credit Jesus” crowd. Andy Pettitte, we hardly knew ye. A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. And ears.
There are some God-People I just love. Not so many in the public sphere, though.
December 13, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I feel kinda intrigued by the fact that I’ve lived through my first ‘era’ of a major sport (I guess the ‘live ball era’ of the NFL has encompassed my lifetime – even though its been around since what, ‘78?). And like the several ones before it in MLB, it is living history, it is a time, that if people give an ‘asterisk’ to the time period, they better give one to the ‘Dead Ball Era’ or perhaps even before Black Athletes were allowed to compete, and why not slapping one on every season after they extended the season?
I’m not cheating advocate, but hey, didn’t someone famous once say – “If you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin.”
It is all seeming so obvious now, given the implicated players (and I realize there are scores more), how you could perhaps ’spot’ a juicer.
wow.
December 14, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Yeah, and baseball has a long history of turning their heads at cheaters. Spitballs and all.
I get it. It just bothers me on the level of baseball’s wonderful history of record-keeping. We were once able to use “era” as the only differentiating barometer, and to me that made for far more interesting conversation.
Ultimately, you can only compare athletes by “era,” whatever that is. But now we have a distinction within eras, and that just bums me out.