Sportswriters are a joke!

Most people will be very bored by this post. Another sports post. But I have a beef, and I need an outlet, so here goes.

The sportswriters covering the Alex Rodriguez steroids scandal make me sick. These men (and a few women) have taken the holier than though approach with him. He has admitted more to them and the public than ANY active athlete in ANY sport. These are the same sportswriters who turned a deaf ear and ignored all of the warning signs for almost 10 years while the sport of baseball was overwhelmed with performance enhancing drugs. So now they have decided to hammer away at the only man willing to come up front and admit his folly. Everything he says, they judge and analyze without recognizing that this is more than anyone has given them.

It is very clear Alex Rodriguez has not admitted everything, and has stretched some things. But how many of us know exactly what we did, exactly what we ate, and exactly where we were 6 years ago? Well the sportswriters of America want Rodriguez to know all of these things. They aren't happy with his reasons for taking the PEDs. Well you know what, we all have our own reasons for doing things. Barry Bonds (it appears) took steroids out of jealousy. Rodney Harrison took HGH to "heal faster". If A-Rod took them because he felt inadequate, why should we not believe him? He has demonstrated over and over again that he is very insecure in himself as a person and in his talent on the baseball field. Why wouldn't someone who is insecure and just been given the richest contract in sports feel tempted to try performance enhancers?! Rodriguez seems like the prime candidate in that regard!

And why is no one questioning that the person who received the leaked test results, Selena Roberts, is also the person about to write a book that slams Rodriguez?! Doesn't this seem a little suspicious?! If that person leaking the info was truly leaking a big story, wouldn't they have dropped a few more names? Or did Ms. Roberts decide A-Rod was the only story that was worth covering and kept the privacy of the other players? Sportswriters across the country jumped to her defense when A-Rod said that she had been "stalking" him for the past several years. They said that she was a well respected writer and had never done anything controversial in her life. But they conveniently forget that she spewed some pretty venomous garbage in the Duke lacrosse scandal. After the Attorney General in North Carolina admitted that they had no case, that the woman that had accused the lacrosse team of rape had actually made it up, she continued to harangue about the athletes getting let off the hook. So she doesn't seem to be a great investigative reporter to me, if she still didn't get the story right, after the attorney general dropped the charges. So this seems a little convenient to me, that she was the person who received this information......

Alex Rodriguez has already admitted that he is sorry for his actions. Maybe he doesn't mean it. Maybe he is just sorry that we all found out. But all we can take him for is his own words. He has admitted that he took performance enhancing drugs for an extended period of time. This is something no other athlete has done. All of them have said "I only tried it once, to help me get back from an injury." or they have vehemently denied it. Rodriguez told us what he took, how he got it, how he took it, and how often he took it. He has apologized to baseball, his teammates, his fans, and everyone else. He has pledged to help prevent children from making his mistake (even going so far as to have Don Hooten, the founder of an group that is trying to educate children about the evils of steroids). The only thing he didn't do is admit he cheated. And here is the rub. If he was facing pitchers like Roger Clemens and Andy Pettite, who it seems to have used performance enhancers, was it really cheating, or was he merely keeping up with the Joneses? And if amphetamines are considered performance enhancers, there were an awful lot of other players playing at that level for 40+ years.

So maybe the sportswriters need to back off a little bit. They are starting to make Alex Rodriguez a sympathetic figure. And as big as an asshole as he is, if they start making us feel bad for him, then they are REALLY are not doing their jobs!

So Jayson Stark, Mike Francesa, Howard Bryant, and the rest of the moronic media, CALM THE FUCK DOWN. We're all sick of this already. Most people have already forgiven A-Rod or don't care either way. Let A-Rod play baseball. You all ignored the problem 10 years ago, so get off your high horse and look in the fucking mirror.

PS--These are the same assholes that glory in the fact that Gaylord Perry and Whitey Ford are in the Hall of Fame, despite much evidence that both doctored the baseball to get hitters out. That is a clear example of cheating that they don't seem to care about.