Who Does A Kid Look Up To?

Posted in Life ::: February 12, 2009 6:48 AM

 If you are a sports fan and pick up a paper, log on to espn.com or watch the news, you have got to wonder what it's all come to.  Alex Rodriguez admits to steroids during the height of his performance with the Rangers due to the pressure of his big contract there.  Yet, he says he hasn't done it with the Yankees - why, because there is no pressure playing in New York for the Steinbrenner family? Hard to stomach.  Another former baseball MVP Miguel Tejada just plead guilty to lying to Congress about steroid use, a misdemeanor.  It makes you wonder when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire will finally pony up for their less than stellar congressional performances and admit to what we all believe went down.  On a slightly different note, an ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar, one of the game's best second basemen ever, is suing him for having been forced to have unprotected sex with him for four years despite him having AIDS.  These are just allegations remember but nonetheless, bizarre.  And Brett Favre is retiring - again.  What's this - ten times?  Feels like it.  Brett, and I speak for everyone, just please go away already.  You took a Hall of Fame career and made us sick of you, not easy to do, but you accomplished it nicely.  And all this is literally just what's in today's headlines.  It makes you wonder if there are any sports heroes left.  And you know what, there are some.  Yet, it's not the guys making millions.  It's the guy strapping on his prosthetic leg and gutting out a marathon in relative obscurity.  It's the high school kids playing sports for the sheer joy of the game, with no illusions about money, entourages or "making it rain".  Professional sports will always have its place and I'll be no different from the other addicts, I'll still watch, I'll still go to games.  Yet, as far as teaching my kids about people to look up to? Forgive me if I point them in a different direction.  

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  1. Posted :: February 12th, 2009Jennifer Shadduck

    Money really is the root of all evil kids…at least when accompanied by greed.

  2. Posted :: February 12th, 2009Dave Rook

    Well said. The generation of Cal Ripken-type athletes is gone for the most part. There are still athletes that are worthy, however not so evident. Many of the high-profile stories and players are the "boken" ones. It’s pretty hard to explain to a 6 yr. old what A-Rod was talking about. I changed the channel. Perhaps that’s the answer for awhile.

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