Colin Cowherd likes men...

... or just taking really horrible mainstream media positions. Sorry Colin, my venom wasn't directed just at you, but you seem like a logical choice to call out as the representative for mainstream media types in the sports arena. Substitute Woody Paige, Rick Reilly, or just about any other sports talking head.

For my first post back allow me a rant against two stories/narratives I noticed last night/this morning in the sports world.

1) Statheads rejoice, old-timey sports narrative poops pants and weeps: Last night Roy Halladay made his long-anticipated first post-season start.  For 12 years he utterly dominated the AL  but failed to ever pitch in the post-season, thanks to JP Ricciardi.  The same JP Ricciardi who on Baseball Tonight makes John Kruk (yes, he of the infamous prediction that Randy Johnson would win 30 games in a season in which he maked 34 starts for the Yankees) look like an idiot savant.

Now, according to famous old baseball witch doctors and Dan Shaughnessy-I don't even care to spell his name right-Roy should have struggled from his lack of having "post-season experience wins".  In fact, he should not last 2/3 of an inning and have his arm explode mid-pitch, Dave Dravecki style considering how little experience he had going in. Instead, he only pitched the second ever no-hitter in post-season history. Now granted, I know no-hitters involve a healthy share of luck but clearly Halladay is one of-if not the- best pitchers in baseball and really stupid antiquated, unproven sports cliches that sportswriters tend to treat as the Bible should go the way of Chris Rainey (i.e. away.... to jail).

2) 'Brent Musberger says pros could use steroids' - instantly Jay Mariotti's brain explodes and the remnants are all over Tim Cowlishaws new Ed Hardy shirt (for some reason I envision scenarios where Tim and Jay are always hanging together and Tim insists upon always wearing Ed Hardy shirts- apparently in my fantasy Tim Cowlishaw is quite stylish). This was a lead story on CNNSI.com this morning about Brent Musberger questioning the mainstream media's position of righteous indignation concerning the use of steroids. Mind you, he did not say they are good nor should be used, he just believes the media should leave this to the medical field to explore more. I now lament the fact that the term "steroid-user" has now replaced "convicted felon who raped young children and ate their entrails" in sports lexicon as the worst type of athlete. I hate everyone on their high horse about steroids, and in particular, HGH. Maybe this is a contrarian view, but please, there are much worse things athletes have done than use steroids or PEDs.

I wanted to expand on the above topic more but my attention span when it comes to writing is comparable to Raskal's when it comes to numbers, not drinking, or growing hair.