I, Jason Cleghorn, am hereby announcing my retirement from Major League Baseball today after 14 years of play. Oh wait, that's right I didn't play in the major leagues. I had some talent(OK not much but some). But what really sickens me, as someone who spent a million hours on an Alabama red clay field with 100 degree temps and 98% humidity, hitting soft toss until my hands bled, or catching pop flies until I couldn't hold up my glove anymore, or running until I couldn't puke anymore, is that THESE guys took the place of friends that I had that didn't quite make it.
Life isn't fair and all that bullshit, but I just have to look back in anger ($1 to Oasis) and wonder if my friends that DID have talent and whose idea of performance enhancing drugs was a pinch of snuff, SHOULD have been the A-Rods of this day. We'll never know how many of these guys don't belong in the major leagues.
But I know that for many of us, that baked in that Alabama heat for the love of the game, these losers cheated us all.
I am currently "researching" bluegrass music. This is American musicianship at its finest. I'm convinced that these are the best musicians around. What I like about bluegrass is this general feeling of 'unpretentiousness'. Kinda like me. 
