Call me "Scoop"

Not to go all NAACP on you, but does anyone else detect a little bit of a double standard in Rick Reilly's reporting?

A couple years ago, he wrote this article about Bill Romanowski. It's beyond positive, about how hard he works to keep himself in tip-top shape. He's not an asshole. He's just misunderstood.

Of course Romanowski who now admits that yes, he used steroids from BALCO.

The mere suspicion of Barry Bonds' steroid use has kept Reilly busy for years. He hates Bonds here, here, here, here... you get the idea.

Of course Bonds is/was on steroids. Just like of course Romanowski was on steroids. And Sammy Sosa. And Ken Caminiti. And Jose Canseco. And Mark McGwire. They're all lying, cheating pieces of shit.

But Reilly has singled out Bonds repeatedly, and Sosa most famously (the "get tested right now" article), but I don't remember a similar treatment for the other guys. Maybe it's just a coincidence that the two guys he singled out most notably are both black, while all the other guys I named are not.

I can't wait for Reilly to prove that it was just a coincidence when he writes a follow-up column, ripping Romanowski as a disgusting, dirty, cheating piece of shit.