Boosters may not be the root, but Roberts still was blindsided

The last column I insinuated that the Cape baseball boosters were at least some of the players operating in the shadows of self-certainty who contributed to the blindside firing of first-year baseball coach Joe Roberts. I should have qualified my statement with “some or certain booster club members” because some parents knew as little about all this nonsense as coach Roberts, who verified that the first he heard about the coaching change was via a phone conversation with Principal John Yore after the decision had been made.

Roberts has yet to hear from anyone at the board or district administration level as to why the decision was made not to approve him for next baseball season.

RELEASED STATEMENTS - Do you ever wonder why certain athletes in legal trouble talk to the public through “released statements?” It’s because they have no idea how to feign and fake remorse because in many cases it just isn’t there. Perhaps if they would show up for a press conference and answer all questions related to their transgressions we would get a better read on whom they really are.

“So, Mr. Vick, what are you thinking about when you grab a dog by the rear haunches and beat it to death on a slab of concrete? Is that funny to you? Is it a power move to show your pound dog friends that you are still “so ghetto?”

Plaxico is another no talking somebody. “Plax - why a loaded gun in a crowded bar?” You already stand above the crowd and are backed up by a middle linebacker. You had everything to lose and you did.”

Grandmom Rose offered this advice: “If you need a gun to go out, better stay home.”

PEOPLE DON’T CARE - Baseball players use steroids and we don’t care - do dah, do dah! Perhaps I could use a testosterone bump? And let’s say I’m looking at a pill and a syringe. My inclination is to swallow the pill, which would be a mistake because my liver ain’t about allowing poison into my blood stream. So I pick up the needle and find a vein because I’m not afraid, just a moron. The direct mainline of the steroid would most likely stop my heart in the middle of my hulk scream. But I’m smart so I know the safest delivery portal is through the Roman Empire otherwise known as Gluteus Maximus.

Here’s my point, as we say in the shared needle business. Most times suppliers are also injectors - “Back that butt up” - and do you realize how dangerous these cats are? Go ahead and cheer for Manny and A-Rod, but parents of athletes better get hip and realize that many of the role models in sports are intravenous drug users and these same drugs can kill a kid quickly or slowly.

PORTION CONTROL - Show me a real guy with small portions on his plate and all the nutritious food groups represented, a one pork chop guy who says, “Now I’m done,” and pushes away from the table before heading out for a walk or bike ride, and I’ll show you someone in search of a new circle of friends because no one likes the made over success stories, especially “real guys.”

But seriously, I didn’t see any reason to be new hip guy and be fat guy also - sort of defeats the porpoise, as we say in the tank at Sea World. All the trainers and therapists will tell you that nutrition and diet are at least 60 percent of any training or rehabilitation program, but talk about boring.

I’m in search of positive advice - perhaps like female fertility drugs - look what it did for Manny Ramirez, although it won’t be my head that’s bobbling.

SNIPPETS - Don’t forget, high school athletes, that a completed physical is needed to begin practice for fall sports. Contact the Wellness Center at the Ninth Grade Campus in Lewes at 645-6668. Tell them Manny sent you.