Even Obama Has To Answer An Obligatory A-Rod Question

Barack Obama’s Presidential address giving his views on his first 100 days covered a variety of extremely important issues that have been plaguing Americans since Dubya left the office exactly 3 weeks ago. Obama made his case for his economic stimulus, then answered some hard hitting questions from journalists. These questions covered some tough issues, ranging from Obama’s plan to move troops to Afghanistan, his goal of an energy efficient America, and plans to kick start the job market, all topics that are very important to Americans at this moment. And then there was this:



Notice that Obama’s first word in reaction to that question was “uh.” He then followed it up about how disappointing it was.

He actually probably wanted to say, “uh, what the hell kind of question is that? How I go from just talking about creating 4 million jobs and sending troops to Afghanistan to being upstage by douchebag of the decade nominee, Alex Rodriguez? Can I please see you’re credentials Mr. Michael Fletcher? Washington Post? Oh, okay, that explains EVERYTHING.”

Oh, I wish the day when someone will put dumb questions on the spot. Of course it will never happen, but what a wonderful world it would be. Unfortunately for me, Obama had to give the standard “think of the children” answer, which actually makes a lot of sense. It’s too bad in a world filled with smart men and women, children are often forced into idolizing sports figures at the risk of looking uncool or getting beat up. Is it cool to look up to Harald Zur Hausen? Hell no. He may have discovered HPV leads to cervical cancer, but he can’t hit a ball 400 ft, so screw him. Instead, children look up to the A-Rods, the Mannings, and to a lesser extent the Barkleys of the world (minus the getting a BJ in the corner ordeal).

Obama’s overall view on the situation is that baseball has turned into a sad, depressing state. I could not agree more. I try very hard to hold my disdain for baseball. Sometimes, I just don’t get the sport. It’s boring, it’s slow, and it provides no adrenaline rush. The only thing I really like about baseball is watching pitchers, because I guess I have respect for guys who can throw things with speed and accuracy (thus my admiration for quarterbacks). It also doesn’t help that the sport has been run with issues ever since I was a wee lad. The steroid issue is the first major concern with the money making giant. There are the obvious issues that arise such as the purity of the game, legal issues, and the long term effects (meaning whether or not some baseball player may go Chris Benoit on someone).

Speaking of wrestling, it seems that baseball and the squared ring have more in common than ever before. Both are pretty much hand in hand with steroids at the moment. When I think of pumped up juicers, I think of two guys: Batista and Barry Bonds, figureheads of their industries. Wrestling and baseball also both have their “list of guys who probably use steroids.” For wrestling, their list was in the form of a Sports Illustrated article that outs stars like Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, and Edge to name a few. For baseball, it’s the Mitchell List.

Well at least there hasn’t been a baseball movie about a wash up picking up the pieces of his life while holding on to his glorious past. If there were, Mickey Rourke would definitely be playing him.

And at least baseball doesn’t have its share of horror stories like wrestling. There aren’t any Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit type cases in the MLB. Oh, whoops.

Okay, well at least we know the games aren’t rigged or staged. Right? And surely no one has done anything to dirty up the sport…. right??

Damn, well I guess our President is on to something then, and it sure is a hot topic at the moment. Even if you’re taking all your time reviewing a stimulus to boost alternative energy and create new jobs, people will still want to bother you about baseball and steroids. Freakin’ A.