Good morning all! It's a very beautiful day and a very hot one as well! 10am and already 85. But that's Texas for you! Today I have a subject to address. I watch "Mike and Mike in the Morning" almost every morning. I have grown to enjoy the show as I have learned a great deal more about sports than I have ever known before. These guys are funny and make sports something interesting to learn about, for me. However, something is happening right now in the sports world that disturbs me. Drug testing done on pro-baseball players back in 2003, which was supposed to help clear a way to discover and stop steroid use and to develop a system of punishment for those that violated the rules. At the time the testing was done, the drugs were not illegal in pro-baseball and the tests were supposed to be kept secret. Now, 6 years later, the "list" of those that failed the test is being leaked to the press and made public. Sammy Sosa is the main topic today. A-Rod was the topic a couple of weeks ago. I don't get it. Baseball has been around forever. It's "America's" pasttime. Kids look up to pro sports players. Older fans remember when the sport was the sport itself, not what we can destroy about the sport. My question is "why now"? Unless we can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt who was doing the drugs and who was not, why does the media feel the need to disclose this info to the public? Why destroy the image that so many kids look up to? No one in this world is beyond falling and doing things that should not be done, no one. Granted, those who choose a profession in the eye of the public know their lives will be dissected methodically, because apparently we have nothing better to do with our time than to "goggle" at the personal lives of celebs (boo, hiss), however, they are all people and they are all never going to be perfect or above anything, just like the rest of us. It is now going to be a question as to whether or not Sammy will be able to be in the Hall of Fame. Personally, I do not like baseball, I don't really care who gets in and who doesn't, but I can't see keeping a player out due to an action that took place 6 years ago and was legal at the time. There is simply no telling who has done what in any sport over the many years and we simply can't make judgements on the ones we do know about. The media needs to stop this deliberate destruction of people and their mistakes in life. Mistakes are already difficult enough to overcome on a personal level and should be the business of the person or people involved, not the whole world. There are so many other things to pay better and more constructive attention to, things that really need our attention and I would love to see more attention being paid to such things. We need to view this "destructive charade" choreographed by the media as how absolutely unattractive and ugly gossip is. When we trash others, it is never a good thing. It will always come back to haunt us in some way. So, before you start to let slander, gossip or other "destructive" words fly around, think about what this action will accomplish. If the answer is nothing helpful in any way, cease and desist with continuing down that road. Don't be like the media, don't act like a spoiled brat that has no discipline, don't trash anything and everything because you can't think of anything better to do with your position, it's just very awful. And I am speaking to myself as much as anyone else! (Just wanted to clarify that!) The media needs discipline and regulation as much as any entity with no boundaries. It's been allowed too much freedom with little to no responsibility. It is the responsibility of every person to choose their words with care and thought to the outcome of them. Let's start to practice the art of speaking with responsibility! I hope you all have an "up words" day!
Sharon (Lucy)
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