Bud and the Giambino

I Can't Put My Finger On It, But These Guys Just Don't Look Natural Anymore


It's amazing how the course of Major League Baseball has changed the outlook we have towards competition...I'm not playing baseball currently (even though I should be, I just don't listen as well as my Latino counterparts), but if I were, I would feel I have the licence to cheat as much as I want...Load bats, sandpaper, KY Jelly on the ball, I would try it all...Baseball will reward you for cheating...I think people want to see the product of cheating...example A: "Eight Men Out" is a good movie, about cheating in baseball, that made money at the box office, and later on video (do they even have VHS in Iran?)..."The Kid From Left Field" is a cute baseball movie, that went directly to T.V., and it made jack (Even though it may have had the best formula of any movie, EVER... Arnold Jackson is playing a kid named J.R., who has a hunch regarding baseball, and gets to be manager of the Padres...oughta happen)...So steroids are front and center now...people use them, but if they don't admit it, there is always a shred of doubt that they are innocent...Barry Bonds is "O.J. Innocent", he sure as hell did it, but until he admits it, there is nothing Bud Selig can do...so here comes Jason Giambi, who has realized during his time in New York with the New York media, that it doesn't pay to tell half-truths when interviewed...He said: "I was wrong for doing that stuff. What we should have done a long time ago was stand up -- players, ownership, everybody -- and said: 'We made a mistake.' Steroids and all of that was a part of history." So he basically told the truth...So does Bud Selig address these obvious problems, does he poll his owners to figure out if they knew their players were doing steroids? Does he threaten franchises, like the King of the NFL, Mr. Goodell? No... he threatens to suspend Giambi (for not participating in Sen. George Mitchell's probe, which is another joke)...Selig must have been embarrassed...He was embarrassed on Capitol Hill, he was embarrassed by Jose Canseco, and he's afraid of getting embarrassed by Barry Bonds (which happened already)...the commish is afraid of certain players, and people...Wait until this newer steroid case outs some names, and then the case after that, which is inevitable...the lesson is simple, try it at work: If you cheat, don't say anything...unless they think you're crazy, like Gary Sheffield, then you can say what you want, due to the fear you'll deliver an asswhoopin'...