Monday, August 15, 2005
Drugs, Drugs and more Drugs.
So obviously it's been a while since the Rafael Palmeiro drug scandal but we aren't done talking about drugs. I held off on making my comments because I was waiting to hear what Palmeiro had to say-which as I would find out was nothing!!!! We are tired of athletes offering no comments and hiding behind lawyer's suggestions when it comes to matters like this. WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!
we all remember his perfect portrayal of the innocent man before the congress(pointing his finger in defense) so what I don't understand is why the MLB decided to cover up his test results until after his historic achievment of 3000hits. I mean this happened in May and we find out in July???
When it comes to drugs, other sport governing bodies are doing what they can to clean up their sport: track and field gives 2 years on a serious 1st offense and a lifetime ban for a subsequent one; heck even tennis recently gave a 2 year ban to Argentine Guillermo Canas. Not the MLB. you get a measly 10 days suspension(nope i didn't say 10 games). So Palmeiro( who by the way seemed to be in a bit of a slump prior to his use of steroids and who subsequently turned his game around after) gets 10 days and before i go to sleep and wake up, he's back. much to my chagrin.
All I can say to baseball is WAKE UP! see the bigger picture here and make that step to cleaning up your sport the right way.
we all remember his perfect portrayal of the innocent man before the congress(pointing his finger in defense) so what I don't understand is why the MLB decided to cover up his test results until after his historic achievment of 3000hits. I mean this happened in May and we find out in July???
When it comes to drugs, other sport governing bodies are doing what they can to clean up their sport: track and field gives 2 years on a serious 1st offense and a lifetime ban for a subsequent one; heck even tennis recently gave a 2 year ban to Argentine Guillermo Canas. Not the MLB. you get a measly 10 days suspension(nope i didn't say 10 games). So Palmeiro( who by the way seemed to be in a bit of a slump prior to his use of steroids and who subsequently turned his game around after) gets 10 days and before i go to sleep and wake up, he's back. much to my chagrin.
All I can say to baseball is WAKE UP! see the bigger picture here and make that step to cleaning up your sport the right way.
