Small Brain, Big Problem

Rick Telander's article this morning on performance enhancing drugs is another great example of sports writer righteousness over steroids.....I understand the point he's trying to make but calling out Theriot for the first couple paragraphs is beyond weak

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He's not calling out Theriot

He’s being facetious to prove a point.

by bluekoolaide on May 15, 2009 5:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Right, I understand that.....

……but Theriot had to answer a question about it later on

by Kooter on May 15, 2009 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Right, but...

… he did it extremely poorly.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 15, 2009 5:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know about that

I mean, I don’t know how anybody can come away from that column thinking that Telander’s actually fingering anybody.

He’s simply pointing out that baseball has been so lax in dealing with the whole steroids era that it casts a shadow over what would have traditionally been more "fun’ stories like Theriot’s unexpected home run binge.

I know plenty of people who have joked about Theriot being “juiced”. I don’t think anybody with half a brain would seriously believe that he really is though. It’s just a byproduct of the sad state of affairs that baseball has allowed itself to be caught up in.

by bluekoolaide on May 15, 2009 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

if you were reading him for the first time today

you could misunderstand his “point making” as accusing

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on May 15, 2009 9:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He didn't use the S-T

sarcasm font. No harm done here. Only an idiot reporter would ask a question like that (later on, as an upcoming post suggests ) because it’s obvious Theriot doesn’t juice.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on May 17, 2009 1:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rick Telander is awful

He likes to believe he is greater intellectual being than most. Ironic then that he writes for a rag like the Sun-Times, not exactly a bastion of journalistic vision and accomplishment.

Telander is a strange duck. His writing alternates between being extraordinarily dull and uninteresting with trying to oddly stir the pot.

by BLou on May 15, 2009 9:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My guess

is that he’s still a little bitter from the utter failure that was his short-lived radio “career” a couple of years back. That was brutal, as the only thing worse than reading his opinion is listening to it.

He is a self-important, bloviating moralist who manages to alienate half of his readers with political opinion from time to time, and the other half with lazy arguments and overly righteous indignation. Be gone with him.

"I'll never forget how I felt last October." ~Kosuke Fukudome

by Goodie1969 on May 16, 2009 7:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

All kidding aside

If Theriot did get caught with performance enhancing drugs it would be shameful for Chicago but I’d probably laugh. Still it would be shameful.

by ak123 on May 15, 2009 10:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

welll...

His point was that no one—not even Theriot—is immune to the accusations because of the way MLB handled the steroid issue. BUT, the same point could have been made without the headline and the opening paragraphs sounding so much like he believed wondering about Theriot would be fair at this point.

by spain2323 on May 16, 2009 5:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

People are taking this column way too seriously

Telander is purely stretching to make a point — this problem has become so emotionally charged, if now, a runt like Theriot would have to answer stupid ‘juicing’ questions.

Telander’s no Pulitzer writer, but everybody is stretching here just to bitch at him for the sake of bitching.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on May 17, 2009 1:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes and no.

Many of us love to bitch at mainstream sportswriters, true. But the hyperbole used by Telander in this column was way over the top. I understand his point, but he made it extremely poorly.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 17, 2009 4:07 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

not to forget

that a “tourist” from New YTork picks up the paper, and reads it. Will he/she know that Telander is a doofis, or possibly take it at face value, and next thing we know there are Steroid allegations in NY towards Theriot. 100% unjust allegations (IMHO) as well.

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on May 17, 2009 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs