Rose Law Group Reporter Gripe of the Week
By Phil Riske | Managing Editor
The past couple of weeks have seen media on human (stunted) growth hormone when it comes to Major League Baseball.
Let’s start with Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun, who yesterday finally “apologized” for using two substances to help him deal with injuries — a month after his suspension for the remainder of the season
“The products were a cream and a lozenge, which I was told could help expedite my rehabilitation,” he claimed in a written statement.
Why does it take a month to apologize for anything? When you’re a liar in the first place, why should anyone believe the “cream” and “lozenge” alibi? Why should anyone believe ducking a face-to-face news conference is a sincere form of apology and nothing other than avoiding being asked something, the answer to which could result in a lawsuit?
You’d think someone who still want to be accepted as a star player would be a little more forthcoming. Oh, wait! Could $50 million have anything to do with it?
Now to the biggest sewer rat in baseball history: Alex Rodriguez. Do we need to review all of that story? Please, no. But the gripe this week is about the television slobbering over the story.
Speaking of slobber, this column has previously addressed BSS — Baseball Spitting Syndrome.
During one game, I counted five minutes of camera shots of A-Wad spitting sunflower seeds.
Baseball could spit and spit until doomsday and not get the bad taste left by cheaters out of its mouth.
