Mondays….bleh….who needs them?

After an action packed weekend of Shawn Marion’s debut as a Miami Heat, the greatest Pro Bowl of all-time and UNC only beating Clemson for the 3535462 time, you would think that the last thing you would see on the news or ESPN would be continuing coverage of Steroids.

*sarcasm

The coverage on steroids has gotten ridiculously out of hand. Congress’ involvement is asinine. Baseball must really want to seal its fate with dragging on this dead story. You know what baseball needs right now to get out of the Steroid Era? They need more action. Try recording 17 sacks in only 12 games and people would be forgetting steroids in no time.

“Who cares about Poverty in America, $100 dollar oil and a mortgage problem when Congress can be worried about this guy”

What….you don’t agree? You think the purity of baseball has been lost? You must be an idiot.

Baseball has never been a pure sport. Baseball is a melting pot of great Black, White, Asian and Latino players; yet, only Whites could play the game prior to 1947. How in the hell were all the records ‘pure’ prior to this year when they didn’t allow everyone a chance to play the game?

Don’t even let me get started on pitchers who ‘worked’ baseballs, changes of the mound height and groundsmen training the baseball field to the home team’s advantage.

Alyssa Milano would have had no Black/Asian/Latino players to have sex with before 1947

In addition, the witch hunt for Barry Bonds is despicable. Roger Clemens is receiving a great deal of coverage; however, he is not being demonized as Barry was during his time in the limelight. How is this fair to Barry Bonds? What about his due process? Rafael Palmeiro failed a drug test after his testimony and his story has faded in the background.

In contrast, Marion Jones is sitting in prison, shamed and stripped of all records of her achievements. It wouldn’t surprise me if UNC would remove her name off their championship run.

The Problem?

Barry Bonds fits the mold of the big, bad athlete that a large following of people love to hate. (See: Michael Vick, Mike Tyson, etc). In no way am I saying that they deserve a pass. I am all for ensuring that celebrities don’t get the special treatments to break the law; yet, common sense isn’t that common, it appears. People love to judge, but hate to be judged.

“Chuck D says ‘Fuck The Media’”

So what’s my point? Steroids are good for you. Used in moderation, they can make you recover from injury and muscle deterioration faster. HGH is used to treat AIDS patients and can be given to young children and adults with a weak pituitary gland. When abused, Steroids can give you an unfair advantage in sports, bodybuilding contests and can kill you.

If you want mini-nuts and a stressed heart, do what makes you happy. Just don’t keep trying to tell me that steroids are killing a sports that no one cared about until two steroid users started breaking home-run records.