Giambi's Apology Rings Hollow

Slugger once again apologizes for doing "stuff"

Once again, Yankees slugger Jason Giambi is in the news for all of the wrong reasons.

One would think that a man who is one of the embodiments of the steroids era in baseball would have learned to just lay low and keep quiet.

Not Jason Giambi, who became infamous for his confession of steroid and human growth hormone use to a grand jury during the BALCO investigation and his "apology," in which Giambi apologized to everyone under the sun...but never said what he was apologizing for.

Giambi sat down with a USA Today reporter for an interview and let out a quote so vague that it was in the league of Andy Reid's post game press conferences.

"I was wrong for doing that stuff. What we should have done a long time ago was stand up -- players, ownership, everybody -- and said: 'We made a mistake.'

Giambi also went on to say that he was glad for the new testing system, alleged that he is one of the more tested players in the game, and said that steroids did not help him hit home runs.

First off, if you're going to apologize, you do not come out twice and let out these vague, cheap apologizes for offenses that you won't name. Secondly, to have the nerve to say that steroids did not help him hit home runs is ludacrous. If they don't help you hit home runs you wouldn't have taken them. If steroids don't give you an advantage over other players you wouldn't have taken them. If steroids didn't help your game how come you went from a decent contact hitter to a home run king?

Also, you're glad for the new testing system? This is the same system that got such big name cheats as Alex Sanches and Juan Salas. Let's face it, the steroid testing in Major League baseball is a joke. The powers that be within baseball will suspend someone just to show that the system works. When that eventually was not enough to quell the masses, Major League Baseball finally took someone down of importance, Rafael Palmeiro, who, as he testified before Congress, emphatically, with his finger pointed at everyone in the room, denied steroid use.

I don't know what it is about these juiced sluggers who think they can fool the public. Giambi comes off as a total fraud and a coward for hiding behind his weak, vague statements, and Palmeiro was shown to be a liar and a cheat. These players should learn from Jason Giambi and other players, such as Barry Bonds. You may be innocent under the blind eye that is the steroid policy, but in the court of public opinion, they will always be liars, cheats and frauds.