PERJURY, ROID RAGE & BARRY BONDS

Here's the deal: I don't approve of perjury and think that taking steroids is bad for you and a stupid thing to do. But why on earth is the federal guvmint spending so much time and money on the issue of steroids in professional sports? One word: headlines. Yeah, I know, that was a rhetorical question but rhetoric is what I do, I suppose...

I find it interesting that Barry Bonds has been singled out for indictment when some other big fish such as Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmiero have also been less than candid in their testimony in front of various public entities. Bonds as the career home run champ is, of course, the Moby Dick of steroid users and the US Attorney's Office in San Francisco has gone Captain Ahab on his ass. 

Barry Bonds is also an arrogant jerk, which means that other than Giants fans, Dave Zirin and some black folks who think this is racially motivated, he has few defenders. Additionally, he's a rich jerk but I find the incessant moralizing on the steroid issue to be, quite frankly, nauseating. The feds should have better things to do with their time than go after jocks who take performance enhancing drugs and then lie about it. Some will say that athletes are role models. Barry Bonds is many things but he's never pretended for a nano-second to be a role model. In short, he's a creep but not a phony. What is, however, phony is the so-called war on drugs, which seems to be as endless and futile as the so-called war on terrorism but nowhere near as lethal. I'd like to see some of the creeps who lied their way into war put in the dock alongside Barry Bonds but the chances of that are slim and none. Maybe I'm the one with roid rage this morning...

tags: baseball  crime  sports  steroids  scandal  

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