the Hall of Hypocrisy
Is it just me, or is this whole "steroids in baseball" thing getting WAY out of fucking hand? No doubt many of you are thinking, "Uh, no," but let's just think about it for a minute.
The past few days since the whole Palmeiro thing came out, I've heard Hall-of-Famers all over ESPN and the radio talking shit like, "He's on the juice, he's NEVER getting in." Yeah, 'cuz it's real easy for them to sit on their high horse and say shit like that, and as bad as Palmeiro's circumstances are, these guys are acting like steroids were only invented a year ago. The fact is, and yes I know we all know this already, but they've only been outlawed in baseball for a little over a year now. The juice has been around for 50 years, the only reason ANYBODY's got their panties in a bunch about it is because they just started testing and penalizing players for it.
Frankly I believe Jose Canseco was telling the truth, I always did. Bonds? VERY much on the 'roids. Sosa? Probably where Raffy got 'em from. McGwire? No question he was on the juice, he pretty much admitted it in public, with the caveat of, "They're not against the rules." True(at the time), but why hasn't anybody said they'd never put him in Cooperstown? This is a prime example of the hypocrisy that exists not just in baseball, but underlies EVERYTHING in this entire country. We crucify people who get caught currently, but when we find out people cheated after the fact, they get a pass. The three above named players will ALL get into Cooperstown, yet their numbers will NEVER reach 3000-500. Ever.
The fact is, there are actually people in the Hall of Fame who got there SPECIFICALLY for "cheating". Burleigh Grimes, a pitcher from WAY back in the day, was NOTORIOUS for literally chewing tree bark to get the right consistency of spit to slime the ball with. Yes, the spitball was still legal at the time(in fact, Grimes was officially the last player to throw a legal spitball), but even players from AFTER 1920 who used the spitball STILL made the Hall. Don Drysdale, Gaylord Perry, and Whitey Ford, all were notorious spitballers, all three got repeatedly caught doing it, and yet they ALL easily made it to Cooperstown. And this is NOT an 80-year old thing I'm talking about, Gaylord Perry got caught throwing one in 1982 against Boston.
I realize this is impossible, but I'd be willing to bet that if it WERE possible to go back in time and test all of the current Hall of Famers for steroids or whatever, a good portion, maybe even up to half of them of them would come up as cheaters in one way or another. On the juice, on meth, on coke, cutting balls, corking bats, you name it I'm sure EVERY LAST ONE OF 'EM is guilty of something that would today be labeled "cheating." So these guys need to shut the fuck up about Palmeiro and look themselves in the fucking mirror. It's more likely that Pete Rose will make it to Cooperstown before Raffy does, and that's just plain wrong. (Well, actually I think Rose should make it, and SHOULD'VE made it already)
The past few days since the whole Palmeiro thing came out, I've heard Hall-of-Famers all over ESPN and the radio talking shit like, "He's on the juice, he's NEVER getting in." Yeah, 'cuz it's real easy for them to sit on their high horse and say shit like that, and as bad as Palmeiro's circumstances are, these guys are acting like steroids were only invented a year ago. The fact is, and yes I know we all know this already, but they've only been outlawed in baseball for a little over a year now. The juice has been around for 50 years, the only reason ANYBODY's got their panties in a bunch about it is because they just started testing and penalizing players for it.
Frankly I believe Jose Canseco was telling the truth, I always did. Bonds? VERY much on the 'roids. Sosa? Probably where Raffy got 'em from. McGwire? No question he was on the juice, he pretty much admitted it in public, with the caveat of, "They're not against the rules." True(at the time), but why hasn't anybody said they'd never put him in Cooperstown? This is a prime example of the hypocrisy that exists not just in baseball, but underlies EVERYTHING in this entire country. We crucify people who get caught currently, but when we find out people cheated after the fact, they get a pass. The three above named players will ALL get into Cooperstown, yet their numbers will NEVER reach 3000-500. Ever.
The fact is, there are actually people in the Hall of Fame who got there SPECIFICALLY for "cheating". Burleigh Grimes, a pitcher from WAY back in the day, was NOTORIOUS for literally chewing tree bark to get the right consistency of spit to slime the ball with. Yes, the spitball was still legal at the time(in fact, Grimes was officially the last player to throw a legal spitball), but even players from AFTER 1920 who used the spitball STILL made the Hall. Don Drysdale, Gaylord Perry, and Whitey Ford, all were notorious spitballers, all three got repeatedly caught doing it, and yet they ALL easily made it to Cooperstown. And this is NOT an 80-year old thing I'm talking about, Gaylord Perry got caught throwing one in 1982 against Boston.
I realize this is impossible, but I'd be willing to bet that if it WERE possible to go back in time and test all of the current Hall of Famers for steroids or whatever, a good portion, maybe even up to half of them of them would come up as cheaters in one way or another. On the juice, on meth, on coke, cutting balls, corking bats, you name it I'm sure EVERY LAST ONE OF 'EM is guilty of something that would today be labeled "cheating." So these guys need to shut the fuck up about Palmeiro and look themselves in the fucking mirror. It's more likely that Pete Rose will make it to Cooperstown before Raffy does, and that's just plain wrong. (Well, actually I think Rose should make it, and SHOULD'VE made it already)
posted by D at 8.8.05
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