February 2009


Not feeling too well today, stupid cold and realized I haven’t posted in awhile.  I really want to post on the Obama inauguration but we are three weeks past that and in the midst of his presidency.  Anything I want to talk about is sorta unfolding as we speak and the President at his press conference basically said what needed to be said.

So, instead I want to talk about the A-Rod scandal in baseball.  I’ll come right out with it, I am a Red Sox fan, a huuuuuuge Red Sox fan and hate the Yankees with a passion.  I usually take any chance I can get to deride them.  However, in this case, I don’t care.  Why?  Because I would be denying what has been going on in baseball for at least a decade.  Steroids were a part of the game, we need to accept that and I, as a fan, have to accept the fact that in all likelihood Red Sox players were taking steroids.  And I am not the only person who has noticed this denial from Red Sox fans.  Plus, lets be honest, SI violated A-Rods privacy rights in finding this document and making it public, despite the fact the record is sealed.

Do I wish baseball was more pure?  Absolutely, but I have to accept the fact that there were players using enhancers.  I also have to accept the fact that players I grew up watching were using them.  Any “fan” who feigns outrage over A-Rod is just looking for a reason to hate A-Rod when there are better reasons to hate him and NOT be a hypocrite.

This is today’s OED Word of the Day:

man-hatingadj.

DRAFT ENTRY June 2008  

 

Brit. /{sm}man{smm}he{shti}t{shti}{ng}/, U.S. /{sm}mæn{smm}he{shti}d{shti}{ng}/  [< MAN n.1 + -HATING comb. form, probably after earlierMAN-HATER n.

    1. That hates human beings.

1613 G. MARKHAM 2nd Pt. 1st Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 46v, The grim detested visage of a man-hating monster. 1925 V. LINDSAY Tale of Tiger Tree III, in Coll. Poems (rev. ed.) 363 Ten thousand man-hating tigers Whirling down from the north, like a flood!

    2. That hates the male sex.

1844 Blackwood’s Edinb. Mag. July 97/1 Now must this haughty man-hating creature go about begging, catching and carrying fish to market, and so submitting herself to the scorn and laughter of her former lovers. 1868 E. H. PLUMPTRE tr. Æschylus Suppliants in Tragedies II. 189, I should have guessed, Undoubting, ye were of th’Amazons’ tribe, Man-hating, flesh-devouring. 1993 M. ATWOODRobber Bride xlv. 348 He thinks they’re a bunch of man-hating hairy-legged whip-toting feminists.