Jemele has a point

It's WAY too premature to declare that Ankiel's gotten a free pass. The freaking story just broke a few days ago, it hasn't been confirmed, yet folks have been all over it in those few days. Jemele's seriously jumping the gun on making that argument.

As for Clemens, I tend to believe he's been using too, but so far there's no real evidence beyond rumors and gossip. If we had deposition admissions and Game of Shadows type proof like with Bonds it would be one thing, but its something competely different to condemn the guy without any evidence to back it up.

 

And yet, it's not to soon to declare JEmele will get a free pass for throwing crapola (creamola?) like that out there...

 

Me too.

 

I think people WANT Ankiel to get a free pass, but those seem to be the same people who think Barry and Vick should have gotten a free pass ... at least on this board ...

 

I take that back. In a sense, she's right.
The current outcry for Ankiel is not the same as it is for Bonds. Nor should it be. There isn't the prolonged suspicion of use. However, there is no sense of coverup that there was for Bonds, who at first didn't, then did without knowing what it actually was.
Comparing Ankiel to Vick is just goddamn dumb. Defending the slaughter of animals he bred for combat and bankrolled for his entertainment isn't the same thing. And shame on you, Jemele, for comparing the two. That's pandering to the lowest common denominator -- playing the race card when it not only can't be proven, but isn't applicable. If you think that the media wouldn't be all over Ankiel for killing dogs he used for his own sport but are doing it for Vick because he's black, then you are a race-baiter.

 

And, by the way, Bonds used steroids after they were outlawed.

 

Slappy: I don't think she would calling it pandering. She'd argue it is a legit comparison. And she'd be sincere about it. Good God.

 

I do think the Ankiel outcry has died down in a hurry, at least for now.

 

Funny how she starts the column: Race should be injected into a conversation judiciously ...

 

Pete Rose committed the worst sin a professional athlete can and some fans still want him back in baseball, and the Hall of Fame.

Actually, Jamele, I think Rae Carruth trumped Pete Rose. Don't you think?

 

Also completely misrepresents the position of most people who think Rose should be honored in the HOF but who certainly don't think he should be allowed to manage a team ever again.

 

You guys quit letting facts get in the way of a lucid argument, would ya?