This week I watched Roger Clemens disagree with his personal trainer over steroid use. I was surprised by the politician who leaned over the big desk they sit behind and spoke emotionally into the microphone "You are a Hero to me..." A baseball figure is a hero. What statement. I am not really a baseball fan and I guess at one level a guy who can hit or pitch a ball around 90mph is amazing but to give hero status to that person?
"I admire you... I wish I could do that... I wear your jersey around the house and ask my friends to call me by rog..." All of those make sense to me. But Hero? A potentially doped up guy who plays a game for a living?
I was at the 8's fire house in St. Paul a few months back and one of the men on the engine pulled a man out of his burning apartment. The news showed up and asked him, "How does it feel to be a hero?" He was taken aback by the question. He told me later, "I am not a hero... i just pulled a guy out of a room... I did my job. A few months back some guys on the ladder truck pulled a man out of a building with ice frozen all over the ladder and hauled him down it... there were three grown men on a ladder rated for 350 pounds. Those two guys were heroes to me."
What makes a Hero? Is Roger a Hero? Am I a Hero? Are you a Hero? Does Roger give up Hero Status because of the allegations? Give me some responses and ill write a part 2
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