is THIS breaking news?
Baseball star Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, sources tell Sports Illustrated.
i got this via email this morning, from CNN, an organization with extremely strange definitions of the terms “breaking” and “news”.
it’s baseball. it’s a sport. a game. yes, our depraved culture has made multimillionaires — and thereby heroes — out of the big kids men who play it, but i don’t see where that qualifies anything about it as news in the general sense of the term. it’s information, likely of interest to sports aficionados, but believe me when i tell you that a good 99% of the world couldn’t give a flying fuck what some doctor jabbed into A-Rod’s little butt five years ago.
five years ago, mind you. that’s CNN’s version of “breaking”.
i’m tired of the whole manufactured steroid controversy anyway. if they want to shoot up, let them shoot up. why must we create a fucking witch hunt out of every last thing? oh, but steroids are bad for you, oh such a bad example to set for Our Children.
in fact, this is such a big concern that some big-name steroid dabblers may end up going to jail. meanwhile, our incoming CIA director, panetta, just announced that no one will be prosecuted for committing torture on another human being during the era of bush. now THAT’S what i consider breaking news.
look around, CNN. look around, oh you sanctified commissioners of baseball. there’s almost nothing BUT lousy examples in public life, and most of them are quite a bit worse than some grown-up batboy pumping himself up with steroids in order to become a Master of the Game.
let’s stop bogging down the national public discourse with this kind of bullshit. i can — probably you can, probably most web-savvy americans can — spend six minutes online and come up with a dozen new stories that are a lot more interesting, and a HELLUVA lot more important, than the tiresome doings of the ever-tiresome alex rodriguez.
to A-Rod i say: you and the horse you rode in on.
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Drugs consistently ruin the sport for me. I wish they’d just tighten the rules, get rid of the druggies from baseball and focus on the game.
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Darlin’,
I live in that sports oriented world (The Pub) so that IS a big deal to people who enjoy escaping through sports…in a sense it is ‘cheating’ and these guys are apparent ‘role models’ for kids, big and small. However, our government leaders and clergy are ALSO role models, so here’s what our children have to look up to:
Steroid enhanced athletic performances, small dicks but big muscles in a country run by homophobic priests bonking little choir boys while the government beats the shite outta prisoners in illegal holding camps because they, themselves, are injecting steroids to try and be like their sports heroes. Don’t you see the cycle??! :>)
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