Saturday, January 28, 2006

Bode Miller Pops Off

I ignored it when skier Bode Miller said he's skied drunk. I didn't pay attention when used a bunch of cursewords to describe U.S. ski officials. But this time I figure I'll give the guy a little pub, since that what he seems to be looking for.
Miller told Rolling Stone magazine regarding drug testing policies:

"Right now, if you want to cheat, you can: Barry Bonds and those guys are just knowingly cheating, but there's all sorts of loopholes. If you say it has to be 'knowingly,' you do what Lance [Armstrong] and all those guys do, where every morning their doctor gives them a box of pills and they don't ask anything, they just take the pills."

He is 100% right. Bonds reportedly told a grand jury that his trainer gave him "the clear" and told him it was flaxseed oil. That's just the excuse everyone uses so they can have plausible deniability. I feel exactly the same way Miller does. We know Bonds used steroids, and I'm pretty sure Armstrong did too. But they know how to beat the tests. At least Major League Baseball didn't let Palmeiro off the hook on the Sargeant Schultz "I know nothing" defense.
Only thing about Miller, maybe he shouldn't have used names, or if he had to, he could have mentioned Rafael Palmeiro and other known users. Oh and this better not be like Raffy's "thou dost protest too much" act in Congress. If Miller fails a drug test, he's done. And he should probably win a gold medal or two.

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