This is from the Clemens/Steroid thing on ESPN.com right now (also trying out Polaroid plugin for Windows Live Writer with the picture). I don’t know if it was meant to, but this picture looks like it was taken during the Civil War, and Roger Clemens is the president. Something about the clothes he’s wearing and the background…
I feel like he is the president who is going to get assassinated (like Lincoln) (with McNamee as the assassin) or he’s the assassin and McNamee is his gay secret lover. Ok, I don’t know who McNamee is in the latter scenario.
Anyway, I tend to believe/hope Clemens is guilty just to have everything during this time period questioned and unreliable, a big murky mess.
Now that Barry Bonds is retired, I can admit (I’ve read the Barry steroids book, Game of Shadows) he’s a true bastard (I’m a SF Giants fan). And so while this might seem like I hope everyone is guilty (which I do) so that Barry doesn’t look so bad (this is also true) and gets into the Hall of fame, it’s also to say baseball is full of hypocrites and liars, and while it’s not simply ok, we shouldn’t have the players be the only scapegoats because it was 1) essentially ok for a long time because there was no testing 2) baseball themselves did quite fine ignoring everything. Baseball no doubt encouraged this sort of behavior. Maybe one could say that McGwire, a white man, indirectly put pressure on Bonds, a black man, to keep up with the Jones’.
I don’t think I am so much better as a human being and fit to judge anyone else when there is no way to prove anything for those who are assumed not to have taken anything, so I say let everyone in or let no one (players or otherwise) in to the Hall of Fame from this time. Fair, of course not, but that’s life. Everyone has a part in it and the deniability.
Tags: barry bonds, Baseball, giants, Politics, roger clemens, Sports, steroids
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