Showing posts with label eric young. Show all posts
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June 10, 2007

Baseball Tonight hypocritical

Most baseball fans watch Baseball Tonight on ESPN each night so that they can see what happened around the majors that day. I love the show, even though it is probably the most frustrating thing I watch at the same time. Usually, I'll complain about how the first 20 minutes of the show are devoted to Yankees-Red Sox, but this time I'm actually going to stand up for a Yankee-Jason Giambi. Jason Giambi has gotten in trouble because he told USA Today that "he shouldn't have taken that stuff" and that the baseball brass should have stood up with the players a long time ago and been honest with what had happened. Sounds pretty funny from a guy that once held a press conference to apologize for something but he never actually came out and said what he was apologizing for. Must have been "that stuff"... Anyways, I was watching Baseball Tonight and besides the host (by the way those guys generally know nothing about sports, just watch Entertainment Tonight and you will see an ex-SportsCenter anchor) there were three ex-players; John Kruk, Eric Young, and Eduardo Perez. Each one personally took the time to attack Giambi for not being honest with his situation first before telling others what to do. They did however agree that baseball people should have come out and told the public what happened. But wait a minute, didn't all three of those guys play during the "Steroid Era"? They've got a camera in font of them, why don't they tell us what happened? Heck, John Kruk played on the Phillies with Lenny Dykstra, who has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. Eric Young started his career in Colorado with the likes of Andres Galarraga and Dante Bichette, and later played with Sammy Sosa on the Cubs. Why don't you tell us what really happened in baseball, Eric Young? Eduardo Perez has been around baseball his whole life, being the son of Tony Perez. Surely he can tell us what happened between the "Big Red Machine" and the "Big Clear Syringe"... I just don't want to hear ex-players pretend like they are outsiders now because they are on Baseball Tonight and that they have no idea what happened because they weren't actually on the juice... They were in the same locker rooms weren't they? And judging from Eric Young's lisp and ear ring, he was keeping an eye on his more muscular teammates...