Professional athletes work hard. They practice, train, lift weights, go to team meetings, sign autographs, make media appearances, they have to make decisions on how to spend their millions, AND they have to perform to the best of their abilities on a consistent basis. All of this can be extremely stressful. So stressful that a bong hit or two at a college party during your off-season may sound pretty enticing, especially after dominating the Olympic Games a few months prior. Now, we all know that Mikey inhaled some Mary-Jane recently, and some party pooper snitch took a picture of him doing it. Since then he's gotten mixed reactions from the public, the media, and his endorsement companies. Should he really get a bad rap for doing something that millions of men and women his age do on a regular basis? He clearly isn't a normal 23-year old but he is still human and I personally don't think weed is all that bad anyway. Despite my hairstyle, interest in art and poetry, and my oh so cool demeanor, I don't smoke at all but I don't look down on those do either. Given the fact that alcohol and numerous prescription drugs have killed way more people than marijuana has, I don't even think it's logically to have it be illegal... but honestly, that's a whole other conversation. Shoot, Mike is actually so good that he took a performance DEhancer (if thats even a word) rather than an enhancer and he still knows he's the best... Take THAT A-Rod!!! [Michael Phelps seriously has enough olympic gold medals that if he mailed in half of them to those Cash-4-Gold people, he'd probably be able to pay off my student loans for me.] I think the press should let Phelps learn from it and allow him to move on. While Kellog's let him go from endorsements, I do understand why a company would do so but it just goes to show you that once you get a certain amount of fame, you can't live a normal life. Like Spidey said, "With great power comes great responsibility"... and Mike, with the power you have now it is YOUR resposibility to only smoke your weed around people you know and trust. Don't be stupid and do that sort of thing in public, especially not around party pooper snitch guy. Thats my take on Aquaman....
... and now a brief little something about A-Roid.. oops did I spell that wrong?! Believe it or not, I'm not surpised whatsoever that Alex Rodriguez took steriods because I think that it was something that most good baseball players did at the time. I AM though surprised about how blatent he was when admitting to it. Sure, he saw that the lying thing wasn't working for all his peers so he tried something new and actually fessed up, but I didn't think he would be so "honest" about it all. I guess he just has some good advisors. Now, should he be denied into the Hall of Fame? Should any of those guys be denied? If so, the books will be missing a chunk of players from that whole entire era because of it. Can you blame the man who knows he has talent but is being overshadowed by veterans who are juicing up and getting away with it? It's a tough one. See, I think MLB players AND NFL players (yes I said NFL) took, and some probably still do take, steriods simply because they are able to get away with it. Some say that NBA players and other athletes do it too but I have to disagree and this is why: I would assume that sports that are involved in the Olympic games have more strict drug tests that those that aren't (e.i. Baseball and Football). Plus, getting overly muscle bound would only really benefit someone who wants to hit homeruns or someone who's consistently making forceful contact with other big men. It would only help certain kinds of basketball players. Although I hope the steroid/HGH stuff goes away soon, 'cause I'm tired of hearing about it, I won't be shocked if it only gets worse from here... just my thoughts.
... and now a brief little something about A-Roid.. oops did I spell that wrong?! Believe it or not, I'm not surpised whatsoever that Alex Rodriguez took steriods because I think that it was something that most good baseball players did at the time. I AM though surprised about how blatent he was when admitting to it. Sure, he saw that the lying thing wasn't working for all his peers so he tried something new and actually fessed up, but I didn't think he would be so "honest" about it all. I guess he just has some good advisors. Now, should he be denied into the Hall of Fame? Should any of those guys be denied? If so, the books will be missing a chunk of players from that whole entire era because of it. Can you blame the man who knows he has talent but is being overshadowed by veterans who are juicing up and getting away with it? It's a tough one. See, I think MLB players AND NFL players (yes I said NFL) took, and some probably still do take, steriods simply because they are able to get away with it. Some say that NBA players and other athletes do it too but I have to disagree and this is why: I would assume that sports that are involved in the Olympic games have more strict drug tests that those that aren't (e.i. Baseball and Football). Plus, getting overly muscle bound would only really benefit someone who wants to hit homeruns or someone who's consistently making forceful contact with other big men. It would only help certain kinds of basketball players. Although I hope the steroid/HGH stuff goes away soon, 'cause I'm tired of hearing about it, I won't be shocked if it only gets worse from here... just my thoughts.
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