It’s amazing, sometimes, how people think. In Ottawa, Eugene Melnyk wants to build a soccer stadium in hopes of attracting a major league soccer team, but he refuses to discuss allowing a Canadian Football League franchise to share the facility.
So Melnyk, the man who has helped kill his own Ottawa Senators, fights the CFL’s backers from government funds.
Insanity.
Here’s another.
Former Minnesota Twins reliever J.C. Romero will serve a 50-game suspension for “using steroids,” and the fat, drunk Philadelphia media likes to call him a cheater.
Why? Because Romero was suspended in january for testing positive for a banned substance — an over-the-counter sbstance he purchased at the GNC in the mall.
“I didn’t do nothing wrong,” Romero told reporters at training camp.”It’s ridiculous. I don’t think I should be suspended 50 games. It doesn’t make any sense to me. They have some rules they have to follow, and it’s very unfortunate that I have to be the one paying the price. In my mind, I think it’s insane. I think it’s unfair. I’m being, they say, negligent, but then I’m being accused as somebody who takes steroids. That doesn’t fly too well. But it is what it is.”
He did NOT use an illegal drug, but his name will forever be linked with players who took steroids. The product he bought, “6-OXO” contains androstenedione, a steroid pre-cursor, and the same substance Mark McGwire used in 1998. Baseball banned it after McGwire used it.
Until baseball bans beverage alcohol and tobacco, two substances that are addictive and are scientifically proven to cause illness and death, the witch-hunt that continues for real and even non-steroid users will remain a monument to the insanity of the people who run baseball.
Or a monument to the baseball media which is quite possibly even more insane than the owners.
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