Mr. Moseby?Mr. Lloyd Moseby speaks out on steroids.
?I?m surprised,?? Lloyd Moseby is saying, ?that people are surprised, more than anything, to tell you the truth. I?m shocked that people are shocked.?? The lurid headlines have returned, almost on cue, to stain America?s Game, long since shorn of the sense of sepia-toned romance that promised a refuge of sanity in an increasingly insane world. The Biogensis case of performance-enhancing drugs is only the latest to soil an increasingly soiled sports world in general and baseball specifically.
...Cheating, says Moseby bluntly, is one thing. A bad thing. Undeniably. But complicit silence, insidious hypocrisy, isn?t exactly a shining virtue, either.
?This is the era. This goes back a ways. The owners knew it. The commissioner knew it. He was happy that Sammy Sosa and (Jason) Giambi and (Mark) McGwire were hitting all those home runs. They saved the game. And so now you want to back up and say ?Oh, what a terrible thing!? ?It?s kind of silly for anyone to say ??- Moseby grabs theatrically at his heart ??Oh, I?m shocked! I can?t believe he was doing it!? ?Stop it.
?Some ex-players are angry. Not me. I just laugh and say ?Who didn?t know about it?? ?I am angry that the commissioner is doing what he?s doing. Now he wants to punish the kids. Now he wants to start passing the buck onto the second generation of people doing it.?? At 53, the irrepressible Shaker is looking a lot like a favourite old glove.
...?I love baseball. I love the game. I?ll never stop loving the game. The stats are kind of what get you, though. For us as older players, we know what we did. The stats have climbed. Suddenly you had guys hitting 50, 60, 70 home runs. I knew I was better than this guy, but he had better stats than me. But do they really care (about the Hall of Fame, about Cooperstown)? They live in mansions. They got $100 million contracts. Keep ?em out of the Hall of the Fame all you want, they?re still driving Lamborghinis. So Alex Rodriguez is not going to make another $30 million? So what? He?s already made half a billion.?? More lurid headlines await, more big names are set for exposure.
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