Hank Steinbrenner Doesn’t Need Stupid Facts!

By Chris Mottram
Hank Steinbrenner is like that friend of yours who gets drunk and then just spits total sports B.S., but swears it’s gospel (we all have this friend, unless you claim that you don’t, in which case you are that friend). Except Hank isn’t drunk (I don’t think) and he happens to be in charge of the most powerful sports franchise in the country.
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His latest outburst is just as stupid as it is senseless:
“I don’t like baseball being singled out. Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”
As you read that, you can’t tell me you didn’t picture that know-it-all drunk friend.
Let’s break this down:
-- “I don’t like baseball being singled out.”
Sorry, brah, but it was your commissioner who approved of this witch hunt investigation called The Mitchell Report.
-- “Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs.”
Not anymore so than baseball. Or basketball. Or water polo. Or any sport where you may get injured and/or want more strength.
-- “It irritates me.”
Not half as much as you irritate the general public.
-- “Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent.”
It’s not more prevalent.
-- “The number in football is at least twice as many.”
Too stupid to even warrant a response.
-- “Look at the speed and size of those players.”
Yes, you absolutely cannot be big and/or fast without PEDs. Unless you’re Frank Thomas or Jose Reyes. I’d find it hard to believe that the huge lineman in the NFL took PEDs to be 380 pound fat men. And is there any evidence that PEDs can actually make you run faster? I don’t know the answer, but I doubt Hank does either.
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