Bill James on A-Rod:
“Baseball allowed a situation to develop in which it was in the self-interest of players to use steroids. Now we are very angry with people because they did what the system rewarded them for doing.”
That’s about it. It was possible to be, uh, let’s go with not unsympathetic to A-Rod until the Peter Gammons interview, in which he pretended not to know what he took or when, pretended to feel liberated by the admission when of course he’d be admitting nothing if not caught, and generally portrayed it as a youthful indescretion, as dozens of public officials have done with recreational drug use (”Yes, I deeply regret ‘experimenting’ many years ago..” etc.)
Shaddup.
