Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Who gives a shit? I don’t.


Am I the only one who doesn’t care whether or not Barry Bonds used steroids? SI.com has a story based on an about-to-be-released book, Game of Shadows, which casts a brutal light on Barry Bonds’ so-called steroid abuse to which I say, “So what?” Professional athletes do a lot of unhealthy things to their bodies in order to enhance their performance. In order to become an NFL lineman, players have to gain unhealthy amounts of weight just to be able to compete “in the trenches.” At what price: chronic knee and joint problems, obesity, etc. Hell, Corey Stringer, from the Minnesota Vikings, basically died because he was too goddamn fat. But so what? If a player wants to fuck himself up and shorten his lifespan in order to be the best in his game and make a ton of money then so be it. That’s a problem that he and his family will have to deal with later on. Thankfully though, in the case of Barry Bonds, he’ll have millions of dollars with which to lay on when his knees no longer work. Besides, the motherfucker can hit a baseball.

3 Comments:

At 2:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think they should have unrestricted olympics. The kinds where you can take as many roids or whatever you like to truly push the limits of the human.

Imagine the embarassment when these guys make the true athletes race times look merely average.

 
At 10:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Baseball is supposed to be an apple pie, make the kiddies watch type of game.
The fear is what message it passes on to the kids in highschool that want to be good at sports.

'it's for the children'!

 
At 3:54 PM, Blogger William O'Neal said...

Wil says, "fuck the kids!" Jackassery aside however, the fact remains that there's little that's pure about professional sports. Of course, you're right about the message it sends. I once read somewhere that steroid use is even more rampany among "bubble-players" in pro sports. You know, the guy who, if he could only shave a few hundreds of a second off his 40 time thinks he could make it in the NFL.

 

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