Baseball Stuff
Everyone I know did a "wha-?!" when President Bush announced out of the blue that we must get steroids out of sports during the State of the Union. Ridiculous as it may have been to focus more on performance enhancing substances than on WMD, it looks like there is some movement on the issue among Major League Baseball. That's a good thing, we have enough problems with sports star role models without sending the message that you gotta do anything you can, even steroids, to be the best.
Perhaps related (and if it is, oh, how delicious!), Yankee First Baseman Jason Giambi showed up for Spring Training looking noticably leaner, which he swears is just from eating better. Dude, you weigh the same but your muscles look smaller? That's not from getting more vegetables. I can wait for half a season of poor production to make wild accusations, but it's always seemed that Jason has been a 'roid user, since we had his brother Jeremy last year and those Giambi genes didn't look so good on him. I swear, it was like Arnold and Danny DiVito in Twins…
Lastly (just to clear out my open browser windows), there's more changes coming to Fenway this year. Remember last year they put seats up on the Green Monster (and made them look like they've been there since 1912)? Well, this year we get a new section of seats up on the right field roof. I don't think the new ownership is getting enough credit for what they are doing with the smallest and best major league park in the world. The two new rows on the field (which Em and I were very lucky to be able to see a game from), the Monster Seats (which we haven't gotten to yet) and now the roof section are all great, unobtrusive ways to add seats to the smallest park in the bigs and squeeze more revenue out of Fenway. They've also opened up the concourse behind right field, which makes a big difference in the pregame experience. Until I had visited other, newer parks I had never realized that Fenway really is uniquely tiny. Tickets for the new seats aren't on sale yet, and you'll have to stand in line on Yawkey Way to get them probably, but it would totally be worth it…
February 24th, 2004 at 4:13 pm
I’d like everyone to also notice how with the threat of steroid testing last season no one in either league hit 50 HRs…coincidence? I don’t think so, since the year before Barry Bonds was shattering HR records by hitting 73 of them in a single season, along with other player’s 50+ totals.