GIAMBI’s comments = super hardbody
JASON GIAMBI has thrown the proverbial wrench in the machine by making his almost confession to a USA Today journalist. If he had admitted outright to taking steroids it wouldn’t have been as bad as the comments he made. GIAMBI said that the players AND OWNERS were both duplicitous with equal complicity (no Sylvester the cat).
JASON GIAMBI didn’t tell the whole truth to that Federal grand jury. He omitted the fact the team owners helped facilitate the steroids era by sponsoring the drug dealers trainers that had carte blanche access to the team’s clubhouses, weight rooms and practice areas. People seem to have forgotten how desperate major league team owners were after the season ending strike in 1995. The possibility of making each game a home run derby with souvenir baseballs flying out of the park was just too sexy to resist.
The good times evaporated and the shit bubbled over when BARRY BONDS obliterated the single season home run record. BONDS was arguably the best hitter in baseball already and the 350 ft. lines drives that he normally sprinkled around the outfield became 400ft line drives over the right field fences. BONDS was always this good, but he had the nerve to know it, and the gall to show it. I’m not surprised that Major League team owners threw BARRY BONDS under the bus. They knew that BARRY wasn’t going to put on the white gloves and tapdance around after his retirement like the G.O.A.T. WILLIE MAYS does. BARRY doesn’t have a gambling problem like WILLIE does either.
The real issue that JASON GIAMBI has brought to light is how much of America’s pastime is tied up in penthouse office suites by stuffed suits that care nothing for the integrity or perfection of the game. The owner’s greed begat the player’s greed. So as these rich bastards stumble and stammer over each other’s lies I sit nearly six stories up in the sky watching adults play a gotdamn kid’s game and trying not to get a nosebleed.
I ask you this… Who’s the fool?
