Thanks to those of you who, either by e-mail or blog comment wished Happiness on me for my birthday. Otherwise, it was "just another day on the calendar", and it's back to business as usual around here - whatever that means.
So, I'm watching the ALCS baseball the other night (I'm the one) and the Indians pitcher put his fingers in his mouth, which strangely enough is illegal. I think, if you want to put your fingers in your mouth, you should be allowed to. But in baseball, the umpires freak when that happens. They wave their hands in the air and scream, "Ball!" so that the batter knows he got a "free" ball on that little indiscretion. How ironic, I thought. They have such trouble finding players who are using steroids (or so they say), but let a guy put his fingers in his mouth and they're all over it. Let's establish some priorities, shall we? Taking steroids? Maybe. Mess with the baseball? You're screwed, buddy. Ball one.
As for steroids, I think they should be legalized and let them all use whatever they want. If the same people who are making the steroid rules believe that abortion is right - because a woman's body is hers - then why are athletes held to a different standard? All we want to see are baseballs flying over our heads. We don't particularly care how, just make it happen.
Besides, does anybody think it's wrong for Pamela Anderson or Cher to have two hundred surgeries to make themselves look better? No. Isn't that "performance enhancing" too? So, why do steroids operate under a different set of standards? We just want to see big cans and full lips. Whatever they have to do, just make it happen. Put athletes on the same standards. Get a doctor to prescribe the drugs and let them go. A hundred home runs in a season. That would be my goal. They make millions of dollars, so let them take on some risk.
For ten million bucks a year, maybe you'll be horribly disfigured or risk a heart attack from steroid use. That might even-up the income disparity for all the people making minimum wage who pay 80 bucks to watch you hit a ball.
Hell, they're already doing it, so why not make us all feel better about it?
3 comments:
i'm sorry i missed your birthday. i hope you had a great day! you certainly don't seem fifty to me...age is just a number anyways, right???
happy belated birthday anthony!
Happy Belated Birthday. I think pitchers can go to there mouth (well that sounds pornographic) as long as they are not on the mound. They found about 100,000 doses of steroids in NY yesterday, illegal of course, so there will be plenty of people getting in trouble, with or without word from Bud or the baseball union
mbkimmy: The Indians ARE kicking ass. It'll be over on Thursday.
kimmyk: Yes, but does it have to be such a big number?
Sparky: Another of baseball's vagueries, like the balk rule.
It remains to be seen whether or not some of the big names will be implicated in this upcoming steroid report - to be released soon after the World Series.
My money says it's more fringe players and "whozzat" guys than the ones the public knows.
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