To the Big Bad Red Steroid Man

To you Mark Mcgwire, why are you back in baseball? Haven’t you shamed your name more than enough already? You were at one time one of the greatest home run hitters that ever lived. People started questioning you like they did with Barry Bonds, how did such a tiny guy become so big in such a short period of time? A lot of people have mixed feeling about you returning to baseball even if it is as a coach.
It seemed like a magical moment when you out ran Slamming Sammy Sosa in the home run battle with an added touch of family values, when the television showed you hit your 65th home run and there was your son at your side proud of what his dad accomplished. But was it fair to him not knowing that his beloved father was cheating at America’s favorite past time sport? I’ll tell you what; you really had a lot of people fooled when you hit that number 65. The steroid era was upon us but we were just too blind to notice it at the time until later. You should’ve known that when Jose Canseco would not shut his mouth after finding out that he wasn’t going to make the hall of fame and went for broke starting his not so popular line of clubs down in Miami Beach. So what does the biggest blabbermouth in all of baseball go and do, write a book about the things he went through in baseball. And after his tell all book accused you of using steroids and that Jose Canseco introduced you to them and that he names when, where, and how you used them is pretty concrete evidence because it is coming from a man how has nothing else to lose and needs to dish out dirt in order to make some money. After all that was said and done and a bunch of players came out about their use of steroids, you out right deny that you ever touched the stuff. Why would you lie in front of a congress hearing you big dummy, don’t you know they could throw your ass in jail?
After a long while of speculation on you using steroids from Jose Canseco, I am glad you got some sense knocked into your brain and that you came out and said “Yes I used steroids during the highlight of my baseball playing career. I am glad that you finally figured out that you are a has been and never will be hall of famer and that you might as well come out clean because you have no where else to go and that you want to leave the game with a clean state of mind.
Now as far as you coming back to coaching, I think you are hurrying to quickly to this decision. It’s good to see you back in a Cardinals uniform but this time without any juice. Don’t you get it that you only came clean less than a year ago about being on steroids? People still hate you, and now you are the hitting coach? What are you going to do, take all the players down a dark ally in the mean streets of St. Louis and show them how to knock the crap out of the ball by just one small shot in the butt? You were only a good hitter because of the illegal substances that you did. Haven’t you heard about what baseball is trying to do now? They are trying to make it a drug free league, and with just your presence there, the Major League is not fulfilling their dream.

Tiger Woods

What is the big deal with Tiger Wood’s life? He is just an average person who cheated on his wife with a few other women. With him there are plenty of men who have fallen for temptation. None of the other people who have committed adultery end up all over the television or newspapers unless some other incident had happed as a result of it such as murder.
The only reason why Tiger Woods had so much publicity was that he is a person who can play golf better than almost every person on the face of the earth, and that he grossed just over something like a billion dollars last year. The man has lost a lot of his major endorsements like Gatorade, and Gillette just because he had a little perversion. When Kobe Bryant and Beg Ben Rothlisburger were caught cheating or raping someone, not to many people or news sources really cared or covered what exactly happened. And soon everyone just dropped the subject and Kobe Bryant and Ben Rothlisburger went on to lead successful playing careers without looking back. But with the case of Tiger Woods, the media spreading around the bad word about Tiger Woods, the people who view these sources have already cashed in their thoughts and feelings on this subject. After passing this judgment, they still continue to rag on Tiger Woods, and instead of looking into the future and see what great accomplishments will come to follow from one of the greatest athletes to ever step foot on a playing field and will go down in history as a golfer to be untouched. The people will instead view him as the sexual predator that he once was.
Tiger Woods is planning on returning to the golfing green when the masters comes in a couple of months. The golfing community is expecting a record crowd at this years masters that could reach more than three times more spectators than all other master’s in the past. With a crowd expected to be in the high 50s, a majority of the fans going to the golf match is not going because they are a fan of Tiger Woods or are impressed with his over 80 career wins. But are only going to more than likely chant some obscene rants or just to see him because he was a featured character on the animated cartoon series South Park or on TMZ. With a well preplanned speech at his news conference that had no emotion and seemed that it was presented by a robot, and going to a sex rehab and making every effort possible to keep his good clean name, we as a community should embrace his apology and forget about what has happened in his personal life and give him a rebirth and continue his overpowering career as the world’s greatest golfer. Maybe after his wins his next big tournament which hopefully will come in his first appearance, and gets his green jacket that that would be a step in the right direction for him.

Column

The ideal news journal or magazine for me to see my blogs in would have to be a gossip section that would appear in the Tampa Tribune newspaper. My first blog that I posted was about sportsmanship and how I felt about it. And I want to continue it into another direction to where I can talk about major issues that revolve around the world of sports. The sports writers of today in the Tampa Tribune write very little about their opinion on a subject and focus more time on just stating the facts. Hardly ever to we read an article that is opinionated in the sports section because the writers are in fear of losing their jobs. I feel that a majority of my opinions that center around sports are ones that everybody could agree on. An opinionated gossip sports column speaks for itself, even if a bunch of people who would read my column would disagree with my views, it would still attract readers.
Writing an opinionated would not only help myself in getting what I think about the world of sports out there but it would also help inform readers in a way, just incase they are not up to date on the matter. And if they are undecided on what to think on a subject, maybe my column could help them open up their eyes and maybe persuade them into my views. I know that having a gossip column is not always an easy thing, that sometimes you are on a slippery slope as far as people agreeing with one’s opinion. But without a sports writer to write about their feeling of on a certain sports issue, then there should be no sports at all.