The List

No sympathy for Manny, David, Alex, Barry, Roger, or anybody else on the dreaded PED List. They cheated, they look us in the eye and lie about it, they shrug and say, "Big deal," and so on. New names, same BS, old news. The outrage has long since been replaced by reluctant acceptance that these guys are total scumbags.

The thing that's bothering me now is that the controlling influence in all this is...guess who? The media, of course. That's the very reason why The List was supposed to have been destroyed. But - like the Watergate tapes - The List survived because MLB - like Richard Nixon - was careless (The similarity is awful, isn't it?).

So instead of The List being gone and in the process of being forgotten, now some lowlife has The List and is likely getting a real good payoff to provide information on a timely schedule. This is how it's playing out. Every couple of months more names will be released, the furor will erupt anew and it will go on and on until all the names are gradually made public and the story is wrung out drier than Death Valley. The media is orgasmically happy to have that "unnamed source" available so they can endlessly shove this garbage in our faces instead of allowing us all to move on. It's disgusting - and in this particular case, it's illegal - but hey, that's the media for you. Again.