Digging a Deeper Hole

Here’s the bottom line on the Alex Rodriguez steroid fiasco: two meetings with the press, zero clarification. Yes, we all know he took steroids (though he himself has never uttered the actual word) but the details remain murky. Why? Because A-Rod thinks he can dance around the details and be forgiven for merely being “young and stupid.” Now he has brought another character into this drama- a “cousin” who allegedly provided the drugs and injected him with them as well. Is this cousin an actual person or a fabrication? That’s a question no one has asked yet but is certainly a possibility. A-Rod and his handlers just don’t get the fact that the media is not going to let him skate on this without details that make sense. Does the A-Rod team really believe that if this cousin really exists that the media will not hunt him down and that the cousin himself will not sell out to a media entity with his version of the story once the price becomes an offer he can’t refuse? That’s the disaster waiting for A-Rod around the next corner. That day is coming- bank on it. As you can see from this blog, even I have more questions as a result of the answers A-Rod provided yesterday. The fact of the matter is I am not gullible enough to believe that any human being, never mind a world class athlete, would repeatedly inject any substance that had a potential to harm them 36 times over a three year period no questions asked. It just makes no sense and anyone with a brain can see that. Then again, there are plenty of people that will ignore that reasoning because this is, after all a country of fools who can’t wait to find out who the next American Idol will be and nothing else. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why A-Rod chose the road he did. He knows that the majority of America is either too dumb or ignorant to understand or care about what he did so why not roll the dice? I don’t happen to agree with that strategy (because I have a clue) but I can understand why he went the way he did. He thinks his audience is clueless. And in some ways he is right to think that because Americans will forgive anything with time. That is both a blessing and a curse.