All right, I can’t take it anymore. I get home from work and all I want to do is put on SportsCenter and catch up on the day in sports. But no, this can’t happen any more, not since Jose Canseco had to write his ridiculous book. I don’t care if it is true or not, the man has ruined my sports watching.
All I want to do is turn on ESPN or Fox Sports and be able to see an hour of what’s going on in the sports world. I sit behind a desk all day thinking of what I can do to prevent myself from going insane. Sports is my salvation, my equalizer — but ever since Canseco’s book and “60 Minutes” interview it seems that is all that is going to be on the sports shows. So now I often find myself watching a show like E! TV’s “101 Reasons why the 90’s ruled.” This is the best example I have that I am losing my sanity because of this steroid controversy.
I was about 8 when the “Bash Brothers” became a household name. I loved McGuire and Canseco, I mean I had a “Bash Brothers” tank top. Yes, I know ridiculous, but again I was only 8. My father bought me a bat signed by Canseco that says “Mr. 40/40.” It was once my most prized possession. You know what I would do with that bat now? Put it to you this way if I was in a plane crash and needed to make a fire, I would without a doubt set the bat on fire first. Then maybe I would use my Sports Illustrated swimsuit addition to start a fire…Maybe. Ultimately, the money I spent on the magazine would be worth more to me in emotional and financial value than Canseco’s autographed bat.
I just don’t understand Canseco. He was everyone’s favorite player. Heck, even Charles Barkley said that he was his favorite baseball player. I mean Charles Barkley isn’t a role model, but it shows that Canseco was the best thing to happen to America from Cuba since Gloria Estefan. Speaking of Gloria, where is she on the Canseco controversy? Am I the only one who remembers how tight those 2 were in the late 80’s? Just think, they could have been that generations J-lo and Marc Anthony.
The guy was a wifebeater, often got arrested for god knows what, and started this whole steroid controversy several years ago. I don’t blame him entirely for this steroid mess. Where is the league and the owners on this issue? After the strike the MLB and the owners were so desperate to get fans in the stands that they probably would have allowed strippers to perform during the 7th inning stretch. Instead they just turned a blind eye and deaf ear to players using steroids. And nothing got people back to baseball like the 1998 home run race. I beg to differ though, strippers would have gotten a hell of a turn out. But seriously, it seemed like McGuire and Sosa were hitting home runs every other day — and your telling me nobody in the MLB or the Owners thought they were doing steroids?
I don’t know why players would want to do steroids anyway. Remember in “90210” when Steve Sanders and the rest of the West Beverly H.S track team were all doing roids? Well Dylan McKay said it best, “Steroids, that stuff will shrink your gonads.” Dylan’s words have still stuck with me to this day. Oh, poor Jose, but at least he can bench press a Buick.
Again I don’t blame Canseco for steroids, I do however blame him for ruining my sports T.V watching. I mean come on, when I am watching an interview with a football player why do they have to ask them if there are any players doing steroids in football? Just ask him about FOOTBALL. Ask him why the Jets keep making fans like me miserable. Ask him whether or not players are jealous that a guy as goofy Tom Brady has a girlfriend like Bridgette Monihan. The guy wears a snow hat in the middle of August just to look all GQ,seriously. Ask athletes anything, but please just don’t ask about steroids.
The truth is America loves a controversy, they love it more than a fat kid loves Krispy Kremes. But honestly, I don’t care anymore that Canseco did steroids or called his teammates out. I really don’t, I just want my good old fashioned hour of sports a day without the word steroid mentioned once. I mean its not like I am asking another guy to stick a syringe into my butt in a bathroom stall is it?