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Ah, the modern world, where you're considered guilty until proven guiltier.
He can't possibly mean that not testing positive is "just as likely" to mean that one escaped detection as it is to mean that one didn't use -- that half of the people who don't test positive actually used. But I don't think Rogers has any idea that the phrase "just as likely" doesn't mean "possible." It's just words to him, not actual thoughts or ideas.
Rogers is a professional writer, and yet he doesn't seem to have any idea that words actually have meaning.
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a simple fact that nonetheless escapes the author
Haven't you guys read Phil Rogers before? Rogers not knowing what words men and letting facts escape him isn't that unusual.
I am at a loss ...
Yes, what a horrible example for our children and grandchildren.
This is the key point to me. It's not merely that people assume guilt; it's that they use logically inconsistent arguments -- because of the fact that they've assumed their conclusion. For example, we were told that Bonds's failure to sue the authors for defamation was an indication of guilt; but Clemens has sued, and yet it's not considered an indication of innocence. McGwire didn't say much in front of Congress and then went away quietly, and that means he was guilty; but Clemens is apparently fully willing to testify and has mounted an all-out defense, and yet that's not seen as an indication that he's innocent.
It seems that the mere accusation alone justifies a conclusion of guilt, and there is nothing an accused player can do to change that.
It's because when a player's accused of steroids, anything and everything that player does is considered as evidence that the player used steroids.
Players is injured? Steroids. Player's been healthy? Steroids. Player has one-year spike and then drops back down? Steroids. Player has one-year spike and maintains? Steroids. Player doesn't sue? Steroids. Player does? Steroids. Player buys new hat? Steroids. Player goes on vacation in offseason? Steroids. Player buys pizza? Steroids.
Everything steroid-related is repulsive to me. I hate the cheating, the see-no-evil of management to the cheating, the (let's face it) see-no-evil of us baseball fans to the cheating, but more than anything else, the ascension to "good-guy" status to a creep like Canseco. He'll tar anybody and everybody for the publicity he craves, and the good will get lumped in with the bad. Someone will always throw the "roids" accusation out there, and all sports will be hurt by that.
We have to stop being selectively angry. When Canseco slithers out from under his rock again, we need to tell him to STFU and go away. And we also need to stop deifying those two creeps that wrote the book based on grand jury testimony. Sports doesn't need to trawl the slime pit to stop PED use.
I left out about 50 additional determinants since I figured you already knew them!
It's going to be real entertaining if David Ortiz or Albert Pujols or someone gets busted for steroids the week before the May meetup, what with me and Kevin and hopefully BL and JC and DMN and maybe even Dial all in the same place.
You wearing a cup? I am.
Pretty good line and an even better set-up line on steroids thread. Well done.
kevin, you aren't supposed to wear it like a dust mask. It goes a bit lower,
Just be glad he didn't brag that his cup runneth over.
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