[Marxism] 'roid rage

[Dbachmozart at aol.com]

Major League Baseball's attempt to "clean up" its tarnished image has been  
seen by the public as pathetic and hypocritical. Anyone who has been watching  
the game before the mid 1990s had to be struck by the appearance of cartoonish 
 sized physiques of the players. Overnight it seemed, wrestler and 
football-sized  players were playing baseball and everyone was hitting long home runs. 
Human  beings, even athletes in their twenties and thirties can't gain all that 
muscle  in four months.
 
The owners knew from experience - the 1919 "Black Sox Scandal" - that the  
best way to revive the game was to give the advantage to the offense - more home 
 runs! That meant tighter-sewn balls, harder wood bats, shorter outfield  
dimensions - and the wink and the nod to steroid use. Apparently, showing  up at 
spring training camp 20 pounds heavier with severe acne and dramatic  mood 
swings wasn't enough to tip off these brilliant captains of industry and  their 
managers/general managers and team physicians. The big bucks were  rolling in, 
so "see no evil, ..."
 
Now that the fans are sick of this farce and the dangerous effect it has  had 
upon impressionable teenage athletes, the owners are like the corrupt pro  
Vichy police lieutenant in the film Casablanca - "we're shocked,  shocked to 
find out that performance enhancing drugs have been used to  distort hitting 
records!" !!!
 
None of those outed players had the chance to confront their accuser. Will  
they get that chance? Were the accusations made under oath? Why are there no  
names of compliant owners and their associates? 




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