It is now official; anyone who does not like Kenny Rogers is a pedophile. What a great human being. I don’t know what the hell was on his hand. Pine tar, Pinesol, pine nuts or urine, this guy is still a gamer.
The old baseball adage goes “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.” There’s that famous moment when George Brett ran a 4.2 40 at an umpire, who didn’t move an inch, after Brett’s bat was found to be corked. Several books and articles have been written about the legendary “Shot Heard Round the World’ where players have all but admitted to stealing the signs that led to Bobby Thompson’s famous home run off Ralph Branca. It is also clear that this is neither the first nor last time in baseball that a team got the edge on its opponent by stealing signs. Runners on second routinely relay signs to the batter regarding what pitch the catcher has called.
With all that being said, it still pisses me off that Rogers would cheat. One of the greatest post-season performances of all-time could be tarnished by a warm Kenny Rogers Chicken-esque lump of gravy. Rogers could very well have gotten himself kicked out of the Series’ remaining games when the team needs him more than ever. But, with all THAT being said, cheating is simply part of sports; just ask Shawne Merriman.
I love how little attention the steroid problem in football is receiving. If a high-profile star like Alex Rodriguez or Vladimir Guerrero was caught using performance enhancers, the national media would be all over the story, blubbering about the “terrible steroid problem in baseball.” Now these idiots refuse to write about the problem in the NFL or to question Roger Goddell’s leadership in the same way they question every Bud Selig decision. This biased reporting is a bunch of garbage if you ask me. Is anyone in the national media ever going to take the NFL to task for having such a terrible handle on steroid use among players? I guess in the eyes of congress and the media, the only athletes that “negatively affect our youth,” to use their sanctimonious words, are baseball players and not the much more visible druggies of the NFL. Nice work clowns, way to do your job. But alas, I am off-topic.
Tony La Russa is getting a lot of heat over his decision not to launch a formal complaint about what the hell was on Rogers’s hand. Some people are now saying that La Russa did not challenge what Rogers had in his hand because of his reverence for Jim Leyland. If anything, Leyland should have reverence for La Russa; Leyland worked under La Russa in Chicago. While Leyland looks like he is 104 years old, he is actually younger than La Russa. Anyone who thinks that La Russa would not try to win a game based on respect for the other manager is an idiot who does not know baseball.
What do you think La Russa said to himself? “Well, we could try to take out the post-season’s best pitcher because we believe he is cheating, but Jim Leyland is the manager of the other team, and he will most likely die soon due to his coal miner lungs, so let’s let him have this one.” What a bunch of idiots. Again I love ESPN, but at least put some thought into your article before trotting it out in front of 100,000 viewers. As a writer who trots his work out before an audience of 9 people, I don’t have that problem.
The Angry T
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