The only-nearly retired
Why do sports reporters keep trying to convince us that superstars in the twilight of their careers should be required to play for contending teams? Is it really best for Brett Favre that he finish his football career somewhere other than Green Bay? Is that what's best for Packers fans? Is Green Bay's season really over after their week one defeat? Remember when ESPN's Jayson Stark told us last month that baseball's Roger Clemens should be traded to the Boston Red Sox? Well, tonight, the Red Sox are 10 1/2 games out of first place and eight games back in the American League Wild Card race. Clemens' Houston Astros are 6 games out of first and 4 1/2 games out in the Wild Card.---
Says baseball Hall-of-Famer Reggie Jackson of the Phillies' Ryan Howard and rumors about steroids: "I look at it as a shame, because of what happened in the past with the guys that were taking the chemicals." He said that he had no doubt that Barry Bonds would break Hank Aaron's home run record. "Hopefully the office of the commissioner can find out what happened, but how do you go back?"
I'll go back for you, Reggie. According to the New York Daily News, you're the one who brought the first juice pusher into the Oakland clubhouse in the late 1980s, your good friend Curtis Wenzlaff, who the newspaper says provided Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire with anabolic steroids, and who stayed at Jackson's house for long stretches during that period.
A final note after re-reading that Daily News piece linked above: Tell me why the reporters bend over backwards to protect Jackson's reputation despite his being smack dab in the middle of the Wenzlaff/Canseco coupling. That should tell you all you need to know about the East Coast Yankees-dominated sports media, the easy redemption of Jason Giambi, the lack of attention towards Gary Sheffield's pharmaceutical history, and the organizing efforts to resurrect Roger Maris' home run record.
posted by CM @ 8:40 PM
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