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A-Roid and Aquifers: A Connection?
February 12, 2009 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Alex Rodríguez linked to aquifers? What’s up?
Check out this (thanks to Josh Newton) Sports Illustrated article by Tom Verducci, who co-authored The Yankee Years with Joe Torre. Here is the final paragraph; read the last sentence:
Rodríguez’s hope is that this managed interview will put his drug use in “a vault,” he said, so he can move forward. It’s a nice sentiment, not just as it applies to him but also for the entire Steroid Era. We should hope it is true. It’s just not realistic, not when too many questions remain and the truth, like water from an aquifer, is relentless.
So water from an aquifer is ‘relentless’? Is it fossil water? Who has the rights to it? What about land subsidence?
How about a Congressional investigation?
Nice simile, Verducci! I think you’ve been hanging around with too many hydrologists.
So maybe this will lead to a fusion of sports journalism (an oxymoron) and hydrology:
“James was sweating like alfalfa transpiring in the Texas summer sun.”
“Howard crushed the ball like it was a consolidating clay in the San Joaquin Valley!”
“Ichiro sped around the bases like the water on the outside of a meander bend.”
“Tomlinson moved the pile forward like a flash flood pushing ’57 Chevys down an Arizona arroyo.”
“Lidstrom clung to Crosby like a cation sorbed on a clay particle.”
“Like Navier and Stokes in fluid mechanics, Montana and Rice are the best-known duo in football.”
“Like Darcy before him, Coach Knight laid down the law.”
Yeah, this could be journalism’s next big thing. Or it could get ugly fast.
[See my post on the REAL problem with the steroids snafu.]
“Sports journalism is to journalism as soil physics is to physics.” – a cranky physicist
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