Roberts and Gibbons: Open Thread
Today Brian Roberts and Jay Gibbons had to face the music in Spring Training once again and had to explain themselves as well as ask fans for forgiveness.
To me baseball is a game and just a form of entertainment, but I’m curious to what you all think about this whole drug issue.
From the Baltimore Sun: Hours before the Baltimore Orioles conducted their first full-team practice of spring training Tuesday, Roberts and Gibbons again acknowledged their misdeeds. Speaking one after the other, each apologized for his conduct.
“Embarrassment is a good word. Disappointment. You know, it’s just one of those things where you look in the mirror, and I have no excuses,” said Gibbons, who will serve a 15-day suspension at the start of the season for receiving a shipment of human growth hormone after January 2005, when it was banned by baseball.
“I blame myself,” Gibbons added. “It’s definitely something that’s out of character. I took a shortcut and I’m paying the price with the 15 days.”
Ah, I remember fondly way back when Jay Gibbons while under scrutiny from Jason Grimsley’s admission said he would never use PED’s and tried to discredit him.
Meanwhile, Brian Roberts said this:
“I told the truth. I made my statement. We’ll move on from there,” Roberts said. “It’s life. You make bad decisions, you pay whatever price there is and you move on. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not the biggest thing in the world to me. It’s really not. I’ve sincerely apologized and I know I made a mistake, but it won’t change the rest of my life. I won’t let it change the rest of my life.”
and…
But before he went onto the field, he had to deal with questions about his status with the team, his thoughts on leaving and his inclusion in the Mitchell report.
“In the end, I have to answer to God. That’s the only person I answer to, when the day comes. That’s the only thing I worry about,” the second baseman said. “It wasn’t exactly the usual offseason. You never know what to expect in life. That’s the great part about it. You take your circumstances and you hopefully do the right thing in those circumstances.”
I believe in forgiveness first, but at the same time, are these guys playing us for fools or are they really sorry?
I’ve lauded Gibbons and Roberts for being great people off the field; however, I wonder about their sincerity. I think they knew exactly what they were doing (sorry, I don’t think Roberts used drugs only once — this is a conscious decision, not like buying an ugly t-shirt) and I really don’t think much of their mea culpas besides just saying the word, “whatever”.
I was harsh with Pettitte, Clemens, and I have to be harsh with our own guys - I see the forest from the trees, and there’s more to story; however, it’s up to us to either buy it or not.
Roberts adds this as well, “I don’t know that anybody wants to air their dirty laundry for 50 million people,” Roberts said. “Would you want to tell everybody what you’ve done wrong in your life? It’s not the most fun thing in the world. I’ve lived with that mistake for a long time, but it didn’t necessarily mean that I wanted to tell everybody about it.”
Interesting.
Are you angry, do you even care, or should we forgive, move on and forget?
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