An excerpt from today’s must read by The Great One.
And to be fair..I left it hanging because I like the comment on reporters, but if you read the entire article you will see Greg is not suggesting that Mike did anything suspect.
There ya go. They have in their hand a list of players suspected of using PEDs. Missing from the list is proof. Missing from any story while Mike Piazza played baseball — or since he retired — is the “actual proof” of which Madden made mention. A little hearsay here, a speculative allegation (perhaps imparted anonymously) there, maybe a rash of back acne reliably eyewitnessed, at least according to the eyewitnesses. Since the subject of Mike Piazza and how he managed to hit so darn well last came up in earnest, in 2009, there hasn’t been anything slightly revelatory, not even a fresh take on the ol’ “oh, everybody knew it” that was in vogue three springs ago.
Everybody knew it but nobody reported it, which I’m pretty sure is antithetical to the job of reporter.
via PED McCarthyism & Mike Piazza « Faith and Fear in Flushing.
Oh but those reporters. The ones who wrote books like Summer of 98. The ones on ESPN and the Fox television network. How surprised they were when they found out that perhaps all the greatest hitters in history didn’t suddenly all come along at once.
Go back and read Costas’ book where he wondered that very question. Oh, he also had a crazy idea where the Astros would switch to the NL West and there should be two wild cards with a one game playoff. Crazy, right?
