No Country For Bloggers - The Day That Could Change Everything
Life is Perception.
As The Notorious B.I.G once said, "I like that."
It took one month for the Mets to go from "Kings of the NL" to "Team In Need of Makeover."
It took one week for the Washington Nationals to go from a team that no one could care less about, to a team we all embraced, equipped with two of our favorite native sons.
It took 24 hours for the Atlanta Falcons to go from calling Bobby Petrino "coach" to calling him "punk."
Hell, it took 3 months for Democrats to go from being certain that Hillary Clinton would be our presidential nominee to realizing that she was nothing more than a Robotic (INSERT EXPLETIVE).
Sip talks politics? Only with this one.
OBAMA '08!!!
We are all so quick to change. Overnight we can go from believers to disbelievers or from lovers to haters. Our fickleness (word?) as a public is not looked down upon as being idiotic but embraced as being adaptive. Or so we think. One thing for certain is this:
We the fan, supporter, believer are always right.
Which is why I think tomorrow at 2PM, baseball will change forever.
According to the New York Daily News(Salt), George Mitchell's report on performance enhancing drugs will be released tomorrow afternoon and between 60-80 names of present and former players will be linked to some form of steroids.
For some strange reason, America is perceiving this event as no big deal.
Major league basebal is telling us that this report is "good for the game." That the report will add legitimacy to Bud Selig's reign as commisioner.
I'm sorry what?!?!?!!!!
The media is playing this off like its not that substantial, that because most of the report is based on less credible sources (lockeroom attendants, steroid dealers etc.) that we don't know how much we can believe.
Again, WHAT!
I think tomorrow is going to forever change baseball. Mr. Mitchell did not spend the last year digging around for backup 2B who were on the juice. He wanted to fry the big fish. He wanted to make a splash, shock the world, raise eyebrows.
Now lets look back.
In one day, Rafael Palmeiro went from sure fire hall of famer to public enemy.
In one minute, after refusing to testify to the grand jury, Mark McGwire went from game savior to game corruptor.
So what happens if Mitchell's list is flooded with 60-80 examples like these.
What happens when for every Jose Canseco- a guy we knew was dirty- on this list, there is a Craig Biggio- a guy we never would have guessed in a million years- on this list?
What happenes when guys like Roger Clemens, who we have heard all the rumors about only to shrug them off, appears on the list?
What happens when not 1 but say 10 future hall of famers are on this list? Does that mean that the last 20 years of baseball are completely tainted?
And what happens if Derek Jeter- The face of the game and beholder of all things right in the game- appears on this list? What will happen then?
How bout if Alex Rodriguez, Tony Gwynn or Greg Maddux show up?
We're talking about the guy with the purest power, the purest swing or the purest arm, respectively.
As fans we look for a reason to scrutinize. We want to feel like we are better or smarter than we really are, that we know more than the people running the teams that we love. But also, we want to feel like we are genuinelly connected to the players that we root for.
When our enemy cheats it gives us another reason to hate or scrutinize or do whatever it takes for us to feel better about being a fan and not a player, like most of us once dreamed we might become.
But what happens when we find out that it was also our brother who was cheating this entire time. He was lying right to our face and we just didn't know. How will we feel about the game that we love and cherish then? The game that we watched from our father's laps as kids and hope to one day share with our children too.
I think tomorrow has the potential to change everything.
Steroids saved baseball in the 90's. They gave us a homerun chase unlike anything we had ever seen.
What can save the game in the 2000's?
My only thought is to give Jose Reyes speed before every game and just watch that son of a bitch run. But in all seriousness, I wonder, could this be the end of baseball's golden era?
Scared.
Vaya,
Sip
(Pics courtesy of Newsday.com, Boston.com, About.com)
As The Notorious B.I.G once said, "I like that."
It took one month for the Mets to go from "Kings of the NL" to "Team In Need of Makeover."
It took one week for the Washington Nationals to go from a team that no one could care less about, to a team we all embraced, equipped with two of our favorite native sons.
It took 24 hours for the Atlanta Falcons to go from calling Bobby Petrino "coach" to calling him "punk."
Hell, it took 3 months for Democrats to go from being certain that Hillary Clinton would be our presidential nominee to realizing that she was nothing more than a Robotic (INSERT EXPLETIVE).
Sip talks politics? Only with this one.
OBAMA '08!!!
We are all so quick to change. Overnight we can go from believers to disbelievers or from lovers to haters. Our fickleness (word?) as a public is not looked down upon as being idiotic but embraced as being adaptive. Or so we think. One thing for certain is this:
We the fan, supporter, believer are always right.
Which is why I think tomorrow at 2PM, baseball will change forever.
According to the New York Daily News(Salt), George Mitchell's report on performance enhancing drugs will be released tomorrow afternoon and between 60-80 names of present and former players will be linked to some form of steroids.
For some strange reason, America is perceiving this event as no big deal.
Major league basebal is telling us that this report is "good for the game." That the report will add legitimacy to Bud Selig's reign as commisioner.
I'm sorry what?!?!?!!!!
The media is playing this off like its not that substantial, that because most of the report is based on less credible sources (lockeroom attendants, steroid dealers etc.) that we don't know how much we can believe.
Again, WHAT!
I think tomorrow is going to forever change baseball. Mr. Mitchell did not spend the last year digging around for backup 2B who were on the juice. He wanted to fry the big fish. He wanted to make a splash, shock the world, raise eyebrows.
Now lets look back.
In one day, Rafael Palmeiro went from sure fire hall of famer to public enemy.
In one minute, after refusing to testify to the grand jury, Mark McGwire went from game savior to game corruptor.
So what happens if Mitchell's list is flooded with 60-80 examples like these.
What happens when for every Jose Canseco- a guy we knew was dirty- on this list, there is a Craig Biggio- a guy we never would have guessed in a million years- on this list?
What happenes when guys like Roger Clemens, who we have heard all the rumors about only to shrug them off, appears on the list?
What happens when not 1 but say 10 future hall of famers are on this list? Does that mean that the last 20 years of baseball are completely tainted?
And what happens if Derek Jeter- The face of the game and beholder of all things right in the game- appears on this list? What will happen then?
How bout if Alex Rodriguez, Tony Gwynn or Greg Maddux show up?
We're talking about the guy with the purest power, the purest swing or the purest arm, respectively.
As fans we look for a reason to scrutinize. We want to feel like we are better or smarter than we really are, that we know more than the people running the teams that we love. But also, we want to feel like we are genuinelly connected to the players that we root for.
When our enemy cheats it gives us another reason to hate or scrutinize or do whatever it takes for us to feel better about being a fan and not a player, like most of us once dreamed we might become.
But what happens when we find out that it was also our brother who was cheating this entire time. He was lying right to our face and we just didn't know. How will we feel about the game that we love and cherish then? The game that we watched from our father's laps as kids and hope to one day share with our children too.
I think tomorrow has the potential to change everything.
Steroids saved baseball in the 90's. They gave us a homerun chase unlike anything we had ever seen.
What can save the game in the 2000's?
My only thought is to give Jose Reyes speed before every game and just watch that son of a bitch run. But in all seriousness, I wonder, could this be the end of baseball's golden era?
Scared.
Vaya,
Sip
(Pics courtesy of Newsday.com, Boston.com, About.com)
posted by Sippy Momo at 12:43 PM
1 Comments:
AHAHAHAHA. speed + jose
We shall see.
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