Curt Schilling can say anything he wants.

I am surprised that Curt Schlling's blog is actually quite insightful, forthright, and well-written (now that he's cleaned up his grammar).

I'm late with this post, but it's a good one:

"But now this man is going to act as if he was a ‘victim’ of the same thing we all were? Worse yet, so many of these writers and media members are standing on the tallest mountain shouting to anyone who will listen how wrong all of this is, how bad all of it is, and how dare we players sat by idly and did nothing.

These men were privy to the same scenes we were on a daily basis. They saw us dress, and undress, they rolled their eyes the very same way many players did at the guy who ‘worked his ass off’ when he’d really ‘worked his ass on’ and put on astronomical muscle mass in 4 short months.

They saw hitters go from 18 to 40 home runs, pitchers go from 88 to 90mph, to 95-97mph yet we’re the ones who put our heads in the sand? Weren’t these the men and women with the power of the pen?

(For a player it’s far harder than many think to conclude that guy used PEDs. Not every player who increased his velocity by 5mph or hits 20 more HRs cheats. It’s hard, it’s a challenge, but it can be done, some players have and will continue to do that and they’ll do that clean.)

Hell, Pedro said that he KNEW players who did it for a fact. That makes him 100% more informed about users than I am, or ever was. I suspected, I certainly had my own ideas, but I never knew for a fact that ANYONE used steroids or HGH unless they came out since and admitted it.

What makes Pedro, or any member of the media that was so intent on heaping glory and praise on all things Bonds, McGwire, Sosa and others for ’saving the game’ of baseball in 1997 and 1998, any less culpable?"

The writers, fans, coaches, managers, owners, GMs, commissioner are, in fact, less culpable. Even if they turned a blind eye, they didn't necessarily do the crime.

It's also a bit silly to condemn the reporters whle absolving the teammates who refused to blow the whistle.

But Schlling can condemn ARod all he wants. If Schilling played the game clean during the steroids era, he has at least earned that. A lot of the people who are complaining are the same people who fed their kids with steroid money.

Also, I find this post very interesting because it demonstrates the antagonism between the players and the press. We all subtly know this, but the press warps the truth. They pump up the friendly players and tear down the unfriendly players.

Seriously, is ARod really less forthright than Derek Jeter or Michael Jordan?

Bobby Abreu is the worst-fielding outfielder I've ever seen on a day-by-day basis. He is a joke in the outfield.

Why am I bringing it up?

Because the press seems to have "decided" that Abreu is an adequate outfielder. The same press that has "decided" that ARod is struggling at third base.

In five years at 3b with the Yankees, ARod had a tough three- or four- game stretch where he made five or six errors, including three in one game. The rest of the time, he has often approached Gold Glove caliber.

Last year, Abreu probably gave back 25 runs in the field. So, as far as I'm concerned, he was a $16M corner outfielder who drove in 75 runs.

Stick a mic into Abreu's face every day. Follow him around with cameras. Ask him why his parents named him "Bob" and his nickname is "Bobby" and if this is why he's such a mental wreck who is afraid of walls in the outfield.

What's the "truth" about Abreu? What's the "truth" about ARod?

The "truth" is that the writers dislike ARod and like Abreu. That's it.

Which is why so many fans don't care about the Pedro Gomezes of the world. To us, ARod is neither likeable nor unlikeable. He's .300/40/120 with 20 stolen bases thrown in.

I don't need to spend time in the sweaty locker room watching them, ahem, "dress and undress."