Chicago Sports Review: Wilson: Spinning the Mitchell Investigation Back to Reality

Sally, Golic Greenberg…pretty please.

Now mainstream sports journalists want to jump on the “perhaps we should talk rationally about steroids” and the “perhaps athletes should be allowed to use steroids under physicians care” bandwagons. In the latest round of anti-steroids hysteria, writers like the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins are about, oh, seven to ten years late.

Now journalists-turned-talking heads like ESPN’s Mike Greenberg are “worried about the burden of proof” when it comes to the names about to be released from MLB’s Mitchell investigation. There has been no worry whatsoever from Greenberg when it comes to Barry Bonds and many, many journalists around the nation.

Think about this for a minute: why would Sally Jenkins suddenly begin to spout off about legal remedies to the “steroid situation?” Why the sudden self-proclamation that she too, and probably most of us, are cheaters?