January 16, 2008
Glanville on Fear
Via Baseball Think Factory, Doug Glanville opines about the steroid era:
The newest round of Congressional hearings danced around Miguel Tejada, the remorse of baseball leadership and a lot of could haves, should haves, and might haves. Moving forward, we must openly address not only the drug issues plaguing the sports we love, but the culture of fear that shakes our society.
We're scared of failure, aging, vulnerability, leaving too soon, being passed up -- and in the quest to conquer these fears, we are inspired by those who do whatever it takes to rise above and beat these odds. We call it "drive" or "ambition," but when doing "whatever it takes" leads us down the wrong road, it can erode our humanity. The game ends up playing us.
Elite athletes, I would argue, are a lot more driven than society as a whole. That's how they became elite athletes. To them winning is everything, which is why it's easy to go down the wrong path.
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the same "fear" applies to the Wall Street executives and traders, the lawyers and coprorate management types who now are loading up on PED's to get their job done....as are musicians, actors, poker players etc.. In any profession where you are only as good as your last performance, you are vulnerable to trying to avoid the eventual end.
but kudos to Doug, who also is a Penn grad with a systems engineering degree - he actually skipped a game where scouts were coming to watch him due to lab requiremnets. his perspective is valued.
Would it be hyperbole to suggest that Doug Glanville is the most eloquent man to ever play MLB?
