blah blah Steriods blah

I am back. As you can tell, I did not post going into the weekend. Anyway, we had a weekend. The Lad had his final basketball game and they won big. It was for naught as we were only playing for pride. One of our rep players actually played big and well, which was sort of shocking. The Lad was a bit of a monster out there, pulling down rebounds, blocking shots and scoring quite a bit, early. He hit an awesome hook shot and fell in love with it, so he was taking it far to often and missing. His defense made me proud, though, as he did not let his man get free.

I also got to thinking of 2004. On this day and date, I was in sunny Winnipeg. Nothing like -25 Celsius temperatures and being told that things have warmed up, to get one to wonder why people live there. I tried not to leave the hotel, but had to for work. I recall coming back to the room on the Monday (or was it the Tuesday), sitting in the armchair with my paper and thinking that I would not leave until the next morning.

Of course, it could have been, but I would not find that out until Wednesday when I went to Portage La Prairie, but that is a story for another day.

So, A-Rod really is a bit of A-Fraud or is that A-Roid. It turns out Alex Rodriguez was using steroids when he won his first MVP award in 2003. I always thought it was a pisser as he really did not deserve to win when the Blue Jays Carlos Delgado had a superior season statistically. The only edge Rodriguez had was in home runs. The fact that A-Roid was on a last place team sealed it for me. To be Most Valuable Player, the team needs some semblance of success. If he was not on that last placed team, where would they have finished? It is not as if there is some sub-basement, so his numbers were not really "valuable" to his team or anybody but his "juiced up" self.

Like most baseball players, he has once again proven he is just a fucking jerk! Funny thing is he has made ultra-jerk, admitted steroid abuser Jose Canseco seem like a saint and credible. Man, how low do you have to go to do something like that?

We live in some fucked up bizarro world is all that I can say. Dogs and cats living together. My brother in law making me look mature. Alex Rodriguez making Jose Canseco seem credible and truthful. Who'da thunk it?

And we villified Ben Johnson around these parts (pre-Usain Bolt)?!!! Poor Dave's Wife's Uncle, he (and I never thought he did) deserved any of that. Charlie Francis was correct, in track and field, you needed the juice to win and EVERYBODY was using and masking. The only difference is that their positive tests were supressed (American money being what it was) so let the Canadian take a fall. No skin off of anybody's ass to sacrifice the Canadian (Jamaican immigrant as he would be dubbed in disgrace).

All of this makes me feel worse for what he endured. He was a pawn. He lived the life when things were good, no doubt about that, but he did not deserve the scorn. Most especially from that two faced shithead, Carl Lewis, who was also juiced, just never "officially" caught.

In the end, we are all dead, so who fucking cares. Let A-Roid's testicles shrivel and fall off, who fucking cares!!!!!!

That is all for now, ciao!