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Professional baseball players = roid monkeys
Posted by Michael Klassen on July 10, 2005 in Soapbox
I don't watch big league baseball. I know it's a game with its charms, its history and its heroes. A recent incident caught on video of Texas Ranger's Kenny Rogers assaulting a videographer, a man who was probably about a foot shorter than Rogers, to me typifies where this game is today.
Rogers to me looks like a freak of nature. His unnaturally protruding jaw and bulging neck are telltale signs of steroid abuse. He's not alone unfortunately. Catch the MLB highlights and you are struck by the difference between the players and the fans. The people in the stands are generally fat dads and moms. The guys on the field are all ripped, oversized apes. How the hell did it get so bad?
I know that baseball is not the only major league sport suffering steroid abuse. You just expect it with football. Hockey players don't look normal these days either. But remember old films from baseball's early days? These were athletic men, but not freaks. You could imagine sitting at a dinner table with these guys and not be intimidated by their biceps. Sit down with a guy like Rogers and he might rip your head off for forgetting to pass the gravy.
It's a shame that the recent attention to steroid abuse in baseball yielded only contempt and defensive responses from the players. Kids today are left to look up to chemically-enhanced oddities rather than athletes.
Boys of Summer? More like Frankensteins of the Infield.
Tagged: growing up, miracles of science
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