Nothing has caused me to raise my eyebrows in surprise more than Mark McGuire's recent announcement that he did, indeed, shoot steroids. Gee...McGuire was involved in the use of HGH and other performance enhancing drugs? I'm completely flabbergasted! Don't get me wrong. I'm not naive. I always knew that some players cheated but i always assumed they were the obvious players like Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron, or Rod Carew. THEY always seemed like the true steroid red-flags to me. But McGuire? I would have NEVER guessed that his ridiculous bulk was due to performance enhancing drugs. I just figured that he worked out 28 hours a day and ate nothing but raw eggs. What's next? Is Barry Bonds going to issue a statement revealing that pumping steroids into his blood stream is the REAL reason he outgrew a baseball cap and a pair of cleats in his late 30's? Will Sammy Sosa hold a press conference to proclaim that using a corked bat in a game WASN'T his only ethical slip-up? I can't imagine. I've always held these men above suspicion and I've always believed what they've told us. Kind of like how, in the 1980's, I believed that Reagan had no idea about Iran-Contra.
Hold on...A new email just hit my inbox.
Oh, it's from my old friend Orenthal. He just told me that it really WAS him who was responsible for the double murder in front of his Brentwood home. Shut up! I always thought it was that elusive, faceless guy that O.J. and his caddy used to search for at all of the upscale golf courses in California. After all, wasn't that glove not fitting the most damning evidence YOU'VE ever seen!? What a day of enlightenment.
Hold on...My cell phone is ringing.
Sorry about that. My old friend George just called. He just told me that the "WMD" fairy tales were simply to provide justification for a full-scale invasion of Iraq. WHAT? Our president lied about the real reasons we went to war?? That's never happened in America before!! Good God. What a day in the "shocking revelations" arena. I haven't even read the emails that Kwame Kilpatrick, Bill Clinton, Robert Blake, Ted Kennedy, and Roman Polanski have just sent me. I wonder what unbelievable deeds THEY are going to admit doing. One could only guess.
Hey Brian. I like how the post events coincide with the topic, "Life if full of curve balls". I like that there's not too much content...I hate reading massive amounts of things! The picture also goes well with the post. Nice graphics:video bar. This post is very informative. I know NOTHING about baseball, but while reading, I'm like "Really?" lol! It does keep my attention and has me wanting to know what you're gonna mention next. The only thing I suggest changing is the background. I'm not too fond of the black. Maybe change it to a nice blue or something:)
ReplyDeleteim glad it held your attention tiffany. i was wondering if a non-sports fan would understand what the hell i was talking about lol. ya...im still learning too. this is the first time "blogging" so im not too hip to all the features yet. im gonna try to figure out how to change the background color and experiment with some shades of blue. see ya tuesday!
ReplyDeleteI find your layout functional and very legible. I like that the font size is big enough that it's very easy to read, but it feels very cramped in the small column you have for text, and I only get more claustrophobic still when pictures are added to the mix. I also think the colors don't all go well together. The purple and the blue are nice, and so are the blue and the green, but when they all go together it seems a little dissonant.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the content, you have a compelling way of writing. Unfortunately, sports do nothing for me. xD I don't have any interest in them, but I did keep reading because you started off talking about steroids and who doesn't like a little voyeurism into the mistakes of the lives of others? So all in all, not my kind of thing but very good job anyway.
Your post should strike a chord with those not interested in sports because you thread other references as well. Most readers will see that you are writing about sport references but that what you are truly saying moves past sports. You have an effective conversational voice that will attract and engage readers.
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