This came as a big shock to me, and it really hit me hard. Thirty-fucking-eight. God damn it!
Wherever you are, Shooter, I hope it’s two outs, bottom of the ninth… that arm of yours swinging like a pendulum on a clock… time about to run out for that fella at the plate.
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25 June, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Curt Schilling
Shocked? New to steroid/amphetamine ESPN freak baseball theater?
Kirby Puckett?
Steve Howe?
Josh Hancock?
Ken Caminitti?
What about: Bobby Welch, Daryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, Daren Daulton?
All MLB players fight demons. Demons = steroid doping addiction
26 June, 2007 at 11:40 am
John
Thanks for your comment, Curt.
I’ll try to explain my shock at the news: First of all, I don’t watch ESPN, FSN, or any other sports news channel. I don’t even have cable or satellite. I don’t surf sports news websites or listen to sports talk radio either. Therefore, I don’t stay “up-to-date” with the daily soap opera of which athlete was arrested/indicted/sued/killed, etc.
That being said, of course I know they have demons. You take any group of people and pay them a yearly salary which roughly equals the GDP of Burma, and you are going to get a small minority of them who give in to overwhelming temptation. “Steroid doping addiction,” as you put it, isn’t the only demon either. For some it’s drugs. For others it’s sex. For others it’s violence or all of the above.
As for Beck specifically, I had no idea he had a problem with drug addiction. As a matter of fact, I had no knowledge of anything about him after he left the Giants. I am a life-long Giants fan, and that’s what I pay attention to. I find it a little odd that you lump anabolic steroids in with amphetamine like they are all part of the same problem. And I find it a bit ironic that you call it “baseball theater.” After all, isn’t it just entertainment? I think most people take the statistical and the competitive aspects of all of our sports (but especially baseball) way to seriously.