Yes the Ball is Juiced...
I can't say I'm surprised with the latest confessions of
Jason Giambi, it was more than obvious that he was a product of steroids given the fact that he had no baseball skills other than hitting a home run. Once off the juice, Giambi was noticably lighter and very sick, dealing with a parasite and a benign tumor. He was also an extremely shitty ballplayer.
In all honesty really no different than Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa, two other obvious roiders. None of them could run, field, throw or had any real business out on the field other than socking a curveball 500 feet and in actuality they couldn't even do that without help. In Sammy's case he needed roids AND a corked bat. As for McGwire, he's 65 pounds lighter now (!!) than he was as a player. And no he didn't go on the
South Beach Diet.
Let's be honest though, no one cares about Giambi's plight. Picking on Giambi is like playing the easy level in Madden, my only hope is that Selig forces the Yankees to pay every penny of his salary since they were stupid enough to sign him.
But the people don't want Giambi and I doubt we'll hear too much on Giambi past a few columns and stories this week.
Everyone wants Barry Bonds. Why? Bonds. Well we always like to target the best and Bonds is certainly that. He's actually a great baseball player, a seven-time MVP, former gold glover, 500 stolen bases, a five-tool player into his 30s. He's also not a very nice person, he's ornery, he's old school. He doesn't smile a lot.
So I'll be watching this Giambi stuff to see how soon before they forgive him. It's not like he had a Hall of Fame career and he's as big an asshole as Bonds is (although he talks a little more). I mean Bonds will NEVER admit to anything, he'll shut the media off before he does that. But I'm interested to see when the baseball fans forgive Giambi for disgracing the sport, since he's not the guy they want to see thrown to the fire.
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