Baseball on Report
Thursday, December 13, 2007
New York Daily News sportswriter Michael O'Keeffe and New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden preview the Mitchell Report on steroids and baseball. The Daily News says New York Yankees pitchers Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte will be among the players named in the report.
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Brian: Your journalist guests have dispensed some VERY dangerous information during their conversation with you this morning. Steroids are anti-inflammatory but not necessarily moreso than aspirin. They do NOT speed healing: they slow it. They weaken tendons and ligaments and cause a host of other dangerous conditions. They are prescribed for cachectic patients, such as are some AIDS patients; this is always a matter of balancing risks and benefits; the calculus goes that cachectic patients would die without it. Your guests have powerful bully pulpits. You must forward to them these comments so that they will NEVER again be so reckless.
One of your guests asks how do you treat Bonds in light of the emerging information. You treat him like an athlete who made a conscious decision to cheat as you should all the others who made that decision. I don't understand why he should be absolved because everyone was doing it. As my mother used to say, if everyone was jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge would you do it, too? At some point, you must accept responsibility for your actions.
WCR seems to have very little credibility left: he think that Bonds and Marion Jones was pursued JUST because they are black; he seems to think the same of Vick; He doesn't understand that Steroids aren't prescribed to help guys recover from arm injuries; he also diminished the seriousness of dogfighting in general and doesn't think Vick and others should go to jail over it.
he was on the record as recently as a few months ago saying that he didn't know if Bonds had actually used steroids. "where is the evidence'?? he would say. if everything is about race, your judgment gets clouded
The baseball scene is just in the relative beginning of a process that has been effecting the professional cycling sport in Europe for many years. With increasing scrutiny, penalties and drama, you can expect to see many top players forced to disappear from the sport. Let's face it, drug use is prevalent in the sport of baseball (like many other sprorts) and it will take many years and many "casualties" to clena it up.
Come clean, Brian. How about steroid use on the WNYC softball team!!!
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