I’ve been planning for the past few days to write about a new search site that’s been making a bit of news lately with unethical marketing practices and a generally poor business model. I feel it’s important for me to mock and belittle the recent actions of this company, and it’s important for me to do it in a public forum in a way that may be amusing to others. However, I’m going to have to put that off a little longer because it’s become necessary for me to discuss Alex Rodriguez, third baseman for the New York Yankees.
First, it’s important for me to make it clear that I don’t care whether players were using steroids, HGH, amphetamines or anything else that might help them stay just a little stronger, a little faster or a little sharper. Until a couple years ago, baseball had no drug policy. I don’t have a problem with guys who are doing everything they can, within the rules, to excel in their sport.
However, I do have a problem with whiny douche-bags who lie about it and claim to be pure and innocent. I don’t need every guy who’s ever tried any kind of performance enhancing drug to come out and tell everyone with a weepy, embarrassed public apology. In fact, I don’t want to hear an apology at all. I’d prefer to hear a little honesty when guys are directly asked about it.
For example:
Reporter: Did you take steroids?
Player: Yeah, I did. At the time, there were no rules against it. There were a lot of guys benefiting from them, and I decided to take them to try and get just a little bit better. I’ve pretty much done nothing but play baseball since I was 15. I’m really not qualified to do anything else. I’m going to do anything I can to make sure my body is performing at its peak so that I can be as good as I can and make as much money as possible during my playing career. There are some serious health risks, and I’d certainly advise kids against using drugs, but it was a good business decision for me at the time and a risk I was willing to take.
Now, what’s wrong with that? Why can’t fans be treated like intelligent people who are capable of understanding an honest answer? Because there’s less money in it, that’s why. It’s better for us to watch in awe as these athletic Gods live out our childhood fantasies, than to think that these are just a bunch of guys who worked harder than we were willing to consider, and sometimes needed a little help to get to the top of their game.
I don’t need some asshole apologizing to me for taking something that might make him better at his job. If there was a drug that I could take that would make me slightly better at my job and get me a significantly higher salary, I’d probably take it, too. And I sure as hell wouldn’t apologize for it later just to appease a bunch of ignorant jerk-offs who want to believe the business is “pure” and “untainted.” Grow up, you whiny, pathetic little bitches.
C-HO Mesothelioma Rating – 4 – Not for A-Rod taking steroids, but for A-Rod being a douche bag about it and for the national sports media reacting like a bunch frightened little girls who just realized the Tooth Fairy is really their mom.
