THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

The Holy Writers strike again!

I don’t know what’s more dangerous: leaving children alone on a deserted island, or giving sports writers the keys to the pearly gates.

Here’s Grant Wahl, the Lord of the Ties, talking about resetting history, ala Quantum Leap:

But over the years SI has been proud to serve as the conscience of sport, and taking a stand against McGwire and Sosa… would be taking a stand against the steroid era in baseball, to say nothing of the performance-enhancing drug era in all of sports.

And then he goes off and talks about Zidane not being a good enough recipient because of a red card (which didn’t stop him from being named the tournament player of the year, with full knowledge of that red card).  And also implicates the NHL, even though hundreds of NHLers, in the 1998, 2002, and 2006 Olympics passed every steroids drug test (except for one, who failed during camp and never made the squad). 

Writers, please, don’t show us your halo.