Friday, April 15, 2011
El ganador en el juicio de los bonos es de béisbol
El ganador en el juicio de los bonos es de béisbol
Por Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports7 horas, 4 minutos hace
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Aquí está la guerra sobre esteroides en pocas palabras: Greg Anderson, el entrenador personal que se negaron a testificar contra Barry Bonds, pasó más tiempo en prisión por cargos de desacato de la Corte que cualquier atleta condenados por delitos relacionados con esteroides y cada químico que fabrican las drogas.
La acusación de obstrucción de la justicia que pegó bonos esta semana probablemente conducirá a cero tiempo en la cárcel, y es típico de las últimas guerras imposible de ganar de Estados Unidos, todos los cuales son maravillosos en teoría y defectuoso en la práctica. ¿Causas que requieren los corazones y las mentes del pueblo fundido cuando personas dejan de cuidado, y por el momento bonos dejan un Tribunal de San Francisco, incluso los más fervientes devotos anti-steroid tuvieron que pedir: todo lo que, para ello?
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Los millones de dólares de impuestos desperdiciado atletas persecución en lugar de, usted sabe, criminales. Y los miles de horas-hombre aprobado por la demanda del Gobierno y sus jefes y los jefes de sus jefes, para cumplir con una de las causas que fueron antiguas hace años. Todo lo que compró unos veredictos culpables de bajo nivel.
El ganador fue el Gobierno, incluso si lo puso la piel de bonos, y el ganador no bonos, o bien, no con su reputación teñido y las pistas de neumáticos de los organismos de alfabeto impresas en su espalda. Grandes ligas de béisbol, en un giro más curioso, ganó la guerra encaminada directamente el problema creado.
Béisbol ignoró una década de sus jugadores propios tratar como experimentos farmacológicos. Le temblaban cayó de registros, indignación hervidas y el deporte. El beneficio de medicamentos mejoran el rendimiento fue evidente. Puede haber sido sólo tan frecuentes en el fútbol, pero los quarterbacks no estaban lanzando espirales de 90 yardas y cornerbacks no estaban ejecutando 3,9 en los 40. Integridad fue comprometida y los aficionados perdieron interés.
A continuación, ocurrió algo: sobrecarga de esteroides. Los fans incluso más racionales que no le gustaba las implicaciones morales del uso PED volvieron al juego. El público reconoció que la completa erradicación de drogas era imposible y perdonó lo suficiente para que el proceso penal largo su vencido izquierda fecha todos bostezo.
Hace cinco años, el juicio de bonos podría haber llevado el evening news. Ahora no era el juicio del siglo, década, año, mes o día incluso. El veredicto de culpabilidad despertó interés más para su obtuseness: el jurado clavado bonos para bailar alrededor de una pregunta en testimonio jurado, la misma pregunta más tarde respondió: que el hecho de que la única temporada y carrera inicio ejecutar líder fue declarado culpable en un tribunal federal.
Seguramente juicio de Roger Clemens será el mismo anticlímax, un procesamiento más por el bien de los fiscales y la aplicación de la ley que la opinión pública. Eso es lo que convirtió la guerra sobre esteroides: un juego de vanidad. La búsqueda inicial para ayudar a las grandes ligas de béisbol a limpiarse fue justa, porque incluso cuando avergonzados públicamente béisbol tardó años en adoptar un programa de pena. Cuando el caso BALCO original se convirtió en un alimentador para la persecución del Gobierno de bonos, y cuando el informe Mitchell nacido otra ronda de una mera de la plataforma del Congreso, del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo, ¿eh? – recibió de las manos.
Estos casos debían para proporcionar cierre, y en un sentido lo hicieron: la mayoría de la gente se dio cuenta de que realmente no importan ya. Como el mayor escándalo del béisbol en décadas se acerca a su final, la única charla dejó sobre esteroides preocupaciones su efecto en el Salón de la fama a votar, una consecuencia bastante benigna para tal un follon.
El empañar el juego disminuye día a día. Mientras que el primer de bonos no es un tiempo que MLB abraza y su posición de registros aparte un invisible asterisco, se puede argumentar que el béisbol perdió más fans a la huelga en 1994 que indignación esteroides. Después de todo, asistencia, sufrió mucho peor después de la huelga que se hizo en medio de alguna de las cuestiones de esteroides.
En el futuro, aparecerá el extraño caso PED, y si el usuario es una superestrella, como Manny Ramirez # notas #, la noticia servirá como un recordatorio de estas últimas dos décadas, cuando abundaba vergüenza. ¿La única pregunta es que era peor: que de los jugadores que torpedeó su reputación por inyección y la ingestión de PEDs, o de la miríada otros en trajes cuya audacia convirtieron hipócrita?
El mismo egoísmo que invadió los usuarios esteroides afectados aquellos en el lado opuesto. Los demonios de lucha contra el dopaje que se benefició en las pruebas de drogas que ha insistido. La policía moral utiliza la patraña ancestral: la seguridad de los niños – para abogar contra uso PED. Los policías y el Gobierno convirtieron poder en ensayos de solución de puntuación.
No es es de extrañar béisbol salió tan bien. Resulta de la MLB fue no es peor que la gente con la guerra Stero
The winner in the Bonds’ trial is baseball
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AkYIGhVkNDheSlhcDYA2nS85nYcB?slug=jp-passan_bonds_barry_steroids_041411
The winner in the Bonds’ trial is baseball
By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports7 hours, 4 minutes ago
Here is the War on Steroids in a nutshell: Greg Anderson, the personal trainer who refused to testify against Barry Bonds, spent more time in prison on contempt-of-court charges than any athlete convicted of steroid-related offenses and every chemist that manufactured the drugs.
The obstruction-of-justice charge that stuck to Bonds this week likely will lead to zero jail time, and it was typical of the latest in America’s unwinnable wars, all of which are wonderful in theory and defective in practice. Causes that require the hearts and minds of people fade when people stop caring, and by the time Bonds left a San Francisco courthouse, even the most ardent anti-steroid devotees had to ask: All that, for this?
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The millions of tax dollars wasted pursuing athletes instead of, you know, criminals. And the thousands of man-hours approved by government higher-ups, and their bosses, and their bosses’ bosses, to fulfill a cause that went stale years ago. All that bought a few low-level guilty verdicts.
The winner wasn’t the government, even if it got Bonds’ pelt, and the winner wasn’t Bonds, either, not with his reputation stained and the tire tracks of the alphabet agencies imprinted in his back. Major League Baseball, in a most curious twist, won the war aimed directly at the problem it created.
Baseball ignored a decade of its players treating themselves as pharmacological experiments. Records fell, outrage boiled and the sport trembled. The benefit of performance-enhancing drugs was obvious. They may have been just as prevalent in football, but quarterbacks weren’t throwing 90-yard spirals and cornerbacks weren’t running 3.9 in the 40. Integrity was compromised and the fans lost interest.
Then something happened: Steroid overload. Even the most rational fans that disliked the moral implications of PED use came back to the game. The public recognized that complete eradication of drugs was impossible, and forgave enough that criminal proceedings long past their due date left everyone yawning.
Five years ago, the Bonds trial would have led the evening news. Now it wasn’t the trial of the century, decade, year, month, or even day. The guilty verdict stirred interest more for its obtuseness – the jury nailed Bonds for dancing around a question in sworn testimony, the same question he later answered – than the fact that the single-season and career home run leader was convicted in a federal court.
Almost certainly Roger Clemens’ trial will prove the same anticlimax, a prosecution more for the sake of the prosecutors and law enforcement than the public. That’s what the War on Steroids turned into: a vanity game. The initial pursuit to help MLB clean itself up was fair, because even when shamed publicly baseball took years to adopt a worthwhile drug program. When the original BALCO case became a feeder for the government’s pursuit of Bonds, and when the Mitchell Report birthed another round of Congressional grandstanding – of the people, by the people and for the people, huh? – it got out of hand.
These cases were supposed to provide closure, and in a sense they did: The majority of people realized they really don’t care anymore. As baseball’s biggest scandal in decades nears its end, the only chatter left about steroids concerns their effect on Hall of Fame voting, a fairly benign consequence for such a hullabaloo.
The tarnish on the game lessens by the day. While Bonds’ prime is not a time MLB embraces and his records stand aside an invisible asterisk, it can be argued that baseball lost more fans to the strike in 1994 than to steroid indignation. Attendance, after all, suffered far worse after the strike than it did amid any of the steroid issues.
In the future, the odd PED case will pop up, and if the user is a superstar, like Manny Ramirez(notes), the news will serve as a reminder of these last two decades, when embarrassment abounded. The only question is whose was worse: that of the players who torpedoed their reputations by injecting and ingesting PEDs, or of the myriad others in suits whose boldness turned hypocritical?
The same selfishness that pervaded steroid users afflicted those on the opposite side. The anti-doping fiends profited off the drug testing they insisted upon. The moral police used the time-honored canard – the safety of children – to advocate against PED use. The cops and government turned power into score-settling trials.
It’s no wonder baseball came out so well. Turns out MLB was no worse than the people running the War on Steroids.
The obstruction-of-justice charge that stuck to Bonds this week likely will lead to zero jail time, and it was typical of the latest in America’s unwinnable wars, all of which are wonderful in theory and defective in practice. Causes that require the hearts and minds of people fade when people stop caring, and by the time Bonds left a San Francisco courthouse, even the most ardent anti-steroid devotees had to ask: All that, for this?
Barry Bonds can wave with confidence he probably won't even draw jail time.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
The winner wasn’t the government, even if it got Bonds’ pelt, and the winner wasn’t Bonds, either, not with his reputation stained and the tire tracks of the alphabet agencies imprinted in his back. Major League Baseball, in a most curious twist, won the war aimed directly at the problem it created.
Baseball ignored a decade of its players treating themselves as pharmacological experiments. Records fell, outrage boiled and the sport trembled. The benefit of performance-enhancing drugs was obvious. They may have been just as prevalent in football, but quarterbacks weren’t throwing 90-yard spirals and cornerbacks weren’t running 3.9 in the 40. Integrity was compromised and the fans lost interest.
Then something happened: Steroid overload. Even the most rational fans that disliked the moral implications of PED use came back to the game. The public recognized that complete eradication of drugs was impossible, and forgave enough that criminal proceedings long past their due date left everyone yawning.
Five years ago, the Bonds trial would have led the evening news. Now it wasn’t the trial of the century, decade, year, month, or even day. The guilty verdict stirred interest more for its obtuseness – the jury nailed Bonds for dancing around a question in sworn testimony, the same question he later answered – than the fact that the single-season and career home run leader was convicted in a federal court.
Almost certainly Roger Clemens’ trial will prove the same anticlimax, a prosecution more for the sake of the prosecutors and law enforcement than the public. That’s what the War on Steroids turned into: a vanity game. The initial pursuit to help MLB clean itself up was fair, because even when shamed publicly baseball took years to adopt a worthwhile drug program. When the original BALCO case became a feeder for the government’s pursuit of Bonds, and when the Mitchell Report birthed another round of Congressional grandstanding – of the people, by the people and for the people, huh? – it got out of hand.
These cases were supposed to provide closure, and in a sense they did: The majority of people realized they really don’t care anymore. As baseball’s biggest scandal in decades nears its end, the only chatter left about steroids concerns their effect on Hall of Fame voting, a fairly benign consequence for such a hullabaloo.
The tarnish on the game lessens by the day. While Bonds’ prime is not a time MLB embraces and his records stand aside an invisible asterisk, it can be argued that baseball lost more fans to the strike in 1994 than to steroid indignation. Attendance, after all, suffered far worse after the strike than it did amid any of the steroid issues.
In the future, the odd PED case will pop up, and if the user is a superstar, like Manny Ramirez(notes), the news will serve as a reminder of these last two decades, when embarrassment abounded. The only question is whose was worse: that of the players who torpedoed their reputations by injecting and ingesting PEDs, or of the myriad others in suits whose boldness turned hypocritical?
The same selfishness that pervaded steroid users afflicted those on the opposite side. The anti-doping fiends profited off the drug testing they insisted upon. The moral police used the time-honored canard – the safety of children – to advocate against PED use. The cops and government turned power into score-settling trials.
It’s no wonder baseball came out so well. Turns out MLB was no worse than the people running the War on Steroids.
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