One guys take on Dempster

[Outlaw]

Below is One writers take on Dempster hitting Aroid last night...I'll add a F**K you too for all the cheaters messing with all the Fantasy games these past years. Sure we did'nt know, but we all suspected and now we know a lot more... not that it compares with Sal Fasano's complaints or feelings, but still F..K you all, you cheaters.

http://www.jeffpearlman.com/ryan-dempst ... s-a-stand/

I love Ryan Dempster.

I’ve always loved Ryan Dempster.

Back when I was covering the Majors for Sports Illustrated, Ryan was one of my two or three favorite ballplayers to catch up with. First, he was funny. Like, really, really funny. Great impressionist (if I’m recalling correctly, he knew every line from “The Cable Guy”—he recited so spot on) who once tried selling his chewed gum as a TV gag. Second, he was accessible—if you needed someone to speak with after a Marlins game, Ryan was available (whether he tossed a three-hitter or whether he got shelled for 12 runs). Third, Ryan loved baseball. He was a traditionalist; a purist. The game meant something to him, well beyond a paycheck and some adulation. He knew what it meant to be a ballplayer. He felt the tradition. Absorbed it.

That’s why, when I watched the clip of Ryan beaning Alex Rodriguez last night, I smiled.

Many in the Twitter-verse (or whatever the hell it’s called) slammed Ryan, and I get it. What a pu**y. It’s easy to do that when you don’t have to hit. Has he ever confronted his own cheating teammates (and Lord knows, Ryan’s had plenty of cheating teammates). On and on and on.

The points are valid. No doubt, they are.

And yet … I couldn’t help feeling that, with the pitch to Rodriguez’s body, Ryan was issuing a declaration on behalf of Major League Baseball’s clean, fed-up players. Namely: F**k you.

Yes, fuck you.

F**k you for cheating. F**k you for stealing paychecks. F**k you for influencing the outcomes of games. F**k you for lying. F**k you for dragging us all down. F**k you—Ryan Braun and Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada and Nelson Cruz and Barry Bonds and Jhonny Peralta and Paul Lo Duca and every other guy who felt the need to inject nonsense into their bodies to help accomplish what, naturally, they could not.

F**k you.

I’ve told this story before here, I believe, but whenever I think of guys being screwed by PED, I think of Sal Fasano, my friend and longtime journeyman catcher. Sal was a good, solid Major Leaguer who refused to use performance enhancers. In 2007, Sal’s wife, Kerri, gave birth to a son, Santo, who was born with hypoplastic heart syndrome, a condition in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped. At the time Sal was scratching and clawing to hold on to his Major League career, so that he’d also maintain the excellent MLB health care plan. It was a huge deal, considering Santo’s medical bills exceeded $1 million. Hence, Sal played and played and played and played in the minors, desperate for a call-up (which he finally received, with Cleveland).

Meanwhile, as we later learned from the Mitchell Report, seven different catchers (at the very least) were using PEDs to get ahead and maintain Major League gigs.

That’s what Sal Fasano was up against.

That’s why, this morning, I love Ryan Dempster.

[BK METS]

As much as I hate AROD and his constant lying and cheating, making him the lowest of the low among the group of suspected PED users, I think it was dumb and childish, to throw at AROD. As for me, I watch baseball because I love the game, but mostly because my 2 kids love the game and play it or watch it as often as possible. They know what AROD is. They dislike him as much as I do. But when they were jumping up and down cheering, when AROD got hit, I had a really bad feeling. What are my boys cheering for? They are lovers of the game of baseball, as is Ryan Dempster and many other honest players. But is this the way to deal with it? Is this the way we are teaching our children to react to dishonesty? AROD didn't physically hurt anyone. He cheated and is a liar and obviously that is wrong. But Ryan Dempster didn't show us that he hated what AROD did. He did something worse, in the eyes of a child. Strike him out! Pump your fist! Scream out f**k yeah! But instead he brought himself down to ARODs level and for that, I cannot support what he did. Not when my kids are watching. They know the difference between right and wrong. But the feeling I got in my gut, watching them cheer on this p**sy move was worse than AROD and his selfish action, in this one man's opinion.

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