You know what I hate? I hate that the Spygate and Deflategate sagas have made me WANT the media to conduct witch hunts, to get Manning on the podium and grill him for an hour, to write breathless articles about integrity and sportsmanship and shady PI's intimidating people and digging into every last contact Sly's had and grilling them and investigating Ashley Manning and camping out by their residence to get comments from here. I hate it...but that's where we are, because that's what they did during Spygate and Deflategate.
I hate that post-Spygate we heard, when other stories about other teams 'cheating' in various ways, that the media and the NFL learned their lesson and were taking a more cautious approach, 'innocent until proven guilty' and all that wholesome American goodness. I bought it, grudgingly...a measured approach to all sorts of small-ish stories that, taken to the nth degree, could have been Spygate-esque, but whatever, other fans shouldn't have to suffer.
Then Deflategate...the MADNESS that it turned into, the hypocrisy and sensationalism, the lies and crying and finger-pointing, over football psi levels.
Never again. The media putting on the silk gloves and turning a blind eye to this entire HGH thing is sickening. Just like Brady this is a 'big fish', this should be a MASSIVE story, even in a world where the media is cautious this is an all-time, superstar athlete allegedly taking a banned substance and, upon a leak to the media, that player hiring PI's to check in on the leak. Hiring a 'crisis management' consultant. Having lawyers show up to the clinic to 'check in on things'. Even in this perfect world where the media doesn't jump to conclusions, this is capital-b-capital-s Big Story. But they're treating it like page six news. It's sickening, it really is.
