from Amazon
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Apologies for using steroids…
Just one time, I’d like to see someone apologize (or not) for using steroids without any excuses or reasons, like recovering from injuries, or caveats, or, “But...”, or, “It was only just one time,” or, “It was just the one year,” or, “It was for my family,” or, “..my team,” etc, etc, etc.
I’m all for admissions, contrition, and forgiveness, but it has gotten to the point that when someone tells their “story,” I just want to say, “Shut the f*** up!”
The latest from Marvin Bernard:
I plan to write tomorrow all about Marvin Benard’s life since he left baseball, why he’s been reclusive and what he plans to do with his life. But we’re not supposed to bury the lead, so I’ll start here: Benard, at the ballpark for the 2000 Giants reunion, just told me he used steroids in 2002 (first lie), his first public admission.
...In my interview with Benard, who turned 40 in January, he said he used steroids in 2002 after left-knee surgery because his leg had atrophied (second lie)and he wanted to return to the field for a team that would go to the World Series (third lie). He wound up with 123 at-bats that year and was finished after 2003.
“To be honest with you, it was an embarrassing moment (fourth lie) that you can’t take back,” Benard told me. “When you’re playing you do some dumb things, thinking, ‘This is going to help me.’ You realize later on they were stupid. (fifth lie - only when you become afraid of getting caught or you do get caught)
“The hardest part for me was to sit my son (Isaac, now 14) down and explain to him what I did (sixth lie). The run we were making in 2002, I saw something special in the team and I wanted to be part of it (same lie as before). You sit there and you go, ‘How do you go about that?’”“Telling my son was the toughest part, the toughest thing for me to realize I did something that wasn’t right (same lie as before). Again, it is what it is and you learn from your mistakes. It was great because I get to use that as an example to my son. ‘Hey, here I was thinking it was going to be a boost, a shortcut.’ I can look back and I can almost say it almost cost me playing a little longer. (Yeah, ‘almost’ is the key word)”
How about the truth, which is, “I used steroids for 5 years because it seemed like a good idea at the time, and everyone else was doing it too. And if I had to do it all over again, given the same culture as back then, I’d probably do the same thing, but this time, I’d probably be more careful to make sure I didn’t get caught.”
Recent comments
Older comments
Page 1 of 343 pages 1 2 3 > Last »Complete Archive – By Category
Complete Archive – By Date