Jan 08 2008
Sports & Steroids
In view of the current imbroglio regarding Roger Clemens, his dispute with his appearance in the Mitchell Report, and the former trainer who told the Mitchell Report that he personally injected Clemens with HGH/steroids/etc., I present you with the following discourse on my views on sports and steroids.
I’ve grown up watching sports, though my affection for them comes primarily from cultivating my own interest as a young child, as my father was never one for organized athletics. I taught myself, and subsequently my younger brothers, how to play a variety of sports through classic means – lots of catch in the backyard with my siblings and lots of pick-up games with friends at the park across the street from my house. I also grew to idealize sports by reading all of the Matt Christopher novels in my elementary school library. Moreover, not growing up with sports allegiances that were passed down from father to son, I held strange affections for a kid growing up in Southeast Texas. My earliest sports memories were watching the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl Shuffle in 1985 and observing the underdog Minnesota Twins defiantly defeat the heavily favored St. Louis Cardinals in the 1987 World Series.
However, regardless of my above-average eye at the plate for tracking balls and strikes, as well as my general aptitude for the nuances and strategies that dominate how one plays team sports, I never joined any youth league teams. Continue reading “Sports & Steroids”