He's Back

I intend to take a pass on Sunday’s ESPN documentary on the 1998 Sammy Sosa-Mark McGwire homerun race.  The way I see it, don’t cover a lie unless you intend to call it a lie.

 

So far, I’ve read three Chicago sportswriters who have no intention of doing that; two of them were beat writers who covered Sosa.  God forbid they address the reasons they never called out Sosa—or McGwire or any other suddenly enhanced ballplayer—for PEDs’ use.  I guess they were too busy chronicling how the Doping Duo were in the process of saving the game.

 

And then there’s Jon Greenberg in yesterday’s The Athletic.  “I don’t need him [Sosa] to admit anything,” wrote Greenberg.  “Nor should anyone else.  We saw what we saw.  We know what we know.”  But only some of us were in a position to report on an ongoing scandal.

 

And, you know what, guys?  I wasn’t in that position.