purojogo
05 Mar 2004, 01:37 PM
I'm not a fan of baseball, but after reading this, I don't think i'll ever become one....Baseball is just too filled with false 'heroes' and truly pathetic examples of what management, union, and athletes should be like.....
Steroid's gag rule leaves bad taste
Friday, March 05, 2004
BY JERRY IZENBERG
Star-Ledger Staff
http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/izenberg/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/107847097473000.xml
"Take Andro as an example. Armed with facts, the IOC, the NCAA and the NFL banned it while Baseball looked at the same facts and wanted further study. It was at a time that coincidentally coincided with Mark McGwire home run binge ... a time when the world knew he was on Andro ... a time when, because of his race against the Ghost of Roger Maris, the fans started coming back to the level they were at before the strike a few years earlier. "
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"Meanwhile, one comes to realize that the players union, which long ago proved it is not a union at all when it failed to honor umpire picket lines, silently (or is the word surreptitiously) applauds the commissioner's posture. The union has a steroid policy conceived in the Land of Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- and, when they allowed testing, the guidelines were ludicrous.
In any event, the Lord High Commissioner of Baseball has ordered a great silence in the kingdom. This is reminiscent of one mouse in the path of a thundering elephant saying to the mouse next to him:
"Hold him off while I think of something."
Steroid's gag rule leaves bad taste
Friday, March 05, 2004
BY JERRY IZENBERG
Star-Ledger Staff
http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/izenberg/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/107847097473000.xml
"Take Andro as an example. Armed with facts, the IOC, the NCAA and the NFL banned it while Baseball looked at the same facts and wanted further study. It was at a time that coincidentally coincided with Mark McGwire home run binge ... a time when the world knew he was on Andro ... a time when, because of his race against the Ghost of Roger Maris, the fans started coming back to the level they were at before the strike a few years earlier. "
...
"Meanwhile, one comes to realize that the players union, which long ago proved it is not a union at all when it failed to honor umpire picket lines, silently (or is the word surreptitiously) applauds the commissioner's posture. The union has a steroid policy conceived in the Land of Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- and, when they allowed testing, the guidelines were ludicrous.
In any event, the Lord High Commissioner of Baseball has ordered a great silence in the kingdom. This is reminiscent of one mouse in the path of a thundering elephant saying to the mouse next to him:
"Hold him off while I think of something."