Letters to the Editor
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Sorry King about the 'roids story
The King seems genuinely disappointed that mainstream media and the fans aren't aghast about the Mets batboy story. Like several other posters have already noted, if and when this guy blows the whistle on some big names, then people will care. Looking at the steroid related events of the last few years, I can't help but conclude that there are really only two groups of people who give a rat's tail about steroids:
1. Journalists like those Game of Shadows guys and their backslapping media peers, all hoping to be known as the Woodward & Bernstein of sportswriters.
2. Grandstanding blowhards in Congress who love to find easy targets that divert from their cluelessness regarding the real hard work of Iraq and the impending insolvency of our Social Security System. These "legislators" are just like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson ranting about Imus instead of trying to tackle poverty, illiteracy, poor health care and all the other real problems facing blacks.
If I'm wrong then why do the turnstiles continue to click and TV/radio ratings are solid? Fans likely don't care, especially when the central figure is Bonds, who was highly unlikeable long before the roid allegations. Do the Bonds apologists forget that this selfish jerk was known as "Stat-Man" in the early 1990's?
as someone above me also noted, it's a shame that Griffey has spent the last 6 years on the DL, otherwise Bonds would be nothing more than a historical footnote