My friend Jeremy sums up the whole steroid thing by saying, “ballplayers are just stupid.” He means they just don’t know any better. They don’t care. All they know is they’re getting paid to hit a ball and whatever helps them do that, so be it.
I’d like to believe that’s not true. You’d like to believe that, right? I mean, I wanted to believe that construction workers weren’t really like the stereotype in my mind. But then I worked construction for a couple weeks one summer. And everything I thought of was true.
My foreman Cheney(who nicknamed me “Motown” for some inexplicable reason) advised me how when digging a trench, you should do it like you were making love to a woman(he did not use such terms). That you couldn’t stop while you were doing it, you had to do it until the job was done.
I have some other construction stories which I’ll share in a bit which are more colorful including the guy who would call me Dennis Miller(construction workers are big on nicknames–the other two people in my crew were nicknamed Pugsley and C.B.(college boy). I was a college boy too but like I said, I was Motown.) and the best being about a guy named Charlie. But I was just reading something on the Nats and apparently this is what Ryan Church said the other day via the Washington Post:
‘An article in Sunday’s paper about Baseball Chapel quoted Church as saying that he had turned to Moeller for advice about his former girlfriend, who was Jewish. “I said, like, Jewish people, they don’t believe in Jesus. Does that mean they’re doomed? Jon nodded, like, that’s what it meant. My ex-girlfriend! I was like, man, if they only knew. Other religions don’t know any better. It’s up to us to spread the word,” Church said.’
Yes, all the Jews are doomed, Ryan! Ridiculous. Ballplayers are just stupid.
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