Oh, and while I don’t mind the occasional round of golf, it ain’t perfect either fella’s… http://www.thegolfblog.com/2005/04/steroids-in-golf.html

And as for NASCAR. I used to love the stuff until the day the driver died. Now, it’s a stop on the channel surfing spree. You want to talk about cheatin’… he’ll man, NASCAR’s the poster child for cheatin’. Uh, I mean, bending the rules…. yeah.

Hockey seems to be pretty clean, too, though I’m sure that I’m not completely aware of the dark side of that sport. NASCAR has (re-)entered my sports universe, as well, though the billboardy/carnie-barker aspect is wearisome to the highest degree, not to mention ripe for parody.

I wish I were a better person and could sit quietly and better myself by reading great works during periods of physical inactivity, but sometimes I just gotta veg out with the toob.

I don’t think Perry should be a HOFer, necessarily, but he certainly deserves to be remembered by the baseball universe. He was a grand character who kept what should be a fun game fun.

If it were up to me, Barry Bonds (and a whole lot of other players) wouldn’t be wearing a MLB uniform right now and Gaylord Perry wouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame.