This is the Statt Mann Baby!!  Time to Scatt a little bit.

The hyperbole surrounding this week’s coverage of the Mitchell Report on alleged steroid abuse in baseball was painfully laughable.

What the report did to the reputations of several baseball players is scandalously slanderous.  A former U.S. Senator signed his name to no more evidence than the word of two men who may have traded information for federal favors.

Some have called them snakes but even that’s hyperbole I’m sure.

And on that hangs the futures of nearly 100 professional athletes accused of breaking laws that didn’t exist when they’re alleged to have cheated.

The same belief in hyperbole exists in motorsports journalism regularly.

We deify NASCAR based on that sport’s lofty impressions of its own value.

We denigrate sports car racing because we’re too lazy to understand it.

We dismiss things like rallying and drifting because the crowds are small arguing that more people would

be on the bandwagon if it was a prettier bandwagon.

I’ll never understand why we let the hyperbole of small people make up our minds for us.

As we prepare for the New Year and a new racing season, lets shop for and, even, open up a can of “thinking for ourselves” for the holidays.

Peace.