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Originally Posted by asamford
ridiculous.
no idiotic political grandstanding bull**** is going to change my attitude towards any of the players who answered questions.
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Why is that ridiculous? Why do you close your eyes and ears to what McGwire and others really are just because some politician might be helping his own career in the process?
I've never had respect for Canseco. Even when he was with the Jays he always came off as a jerk. Sosa always seemed like the smiley happy go-lucky kind of guy that as soon as you turn your back on him he'd steal whatever he could out of your back pocket. Schilling I liked until I became aware that every second word out of his mouth was likely going to do with religion or politics. Palmeiro, despite his questionable viagra ads (would you go on tv to sell viagra? I sure wouldn't), always seemed like a quiet stand-up guy. And then you have McQwire, which excepting that time when he was caught with andro, seemed like the all-America hero, the modern day Paul Bunyan if you will.
Today Canseco disappointed in not being as adamant over the whole steroid problem as he's seemed to be in the last while. You got the impression that some of the stuff he was saying was the truth, but from past impressions you know not to trust him very far. Sosa seemed like he just didn't want to talk, that he's learned it's better not to when you could be in big trouble. I also thought his level of comprehension was just fine and that this language barrier stuff is way overblown, even though some of the words he used were incorrect. Schilling made his expected audition for his next career by very carefully answering questions truthfully all the while side-stepping the real points of the questions. Oh, and you've never known anyone in your 18 or so years playing to take steroids, but there was plenty of talk of players on other clubs that did stuff? Please. Palmeiro seemed by far the most sincere. I never once detected something in his voice or or his posture that indicated he was lying or technically telling the truth, but really lying. I didn't like all his answers, but if I did then I probably would have thought he was just telling us what we wanted to hear. And then there was McQwire, the biggest disappointment of all. You know what? If you don't want to answer the questions then fine, just say so. I wouldn't want to either. But don't give us these bull**** lines about how you want to do what's right for the kids, but you don't want to talk about the past or about any negatives. "Those who do not learn from history..." If you really want to help, then help. Don't just give us lip service.
And frankly, I don't give a rat's ass if it is political grandstanding or not. If being able to see the jokes that our heroes have become helps convince some kids that they're not really heroes when they do this junk and that if they really want to be great people then they need to do things clean, then I'm glad. Will it have a huge impact? I doubt it. But at least it might be something.