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Albert Pujols, Others Unfairly Dubbed the "Un-Naturals"

Back in the day — well 1995, which I guess wasn’t too far back in the day — there was a tale regarding NFL legend Reggie White late one season. An MRI had diagnosed White with a hole in his hamstring, and the Green Bay Packers announced that he would be ruled out for the remainder of the season.

But just one day after rubbing some dirt on the injury, White was in the Louisiana Superdome competing at a high level in a game versus the New Orleans Saints, and he would go one to play the remainder of that season including the playoffs.

At the time Reggie credited his religious faith along with divine intervention for being able to return to the football field. A more secular view would have Reggie as an absolutely freakish physical specimen who was able to withstand a tremendously high pain threshold. In these parts here in Wisconsin, most took Reggie White at his word, attributing his staying on the field to a combination of the two possibilities.

Then came Jeff Passan’s piece on Yahoo Sports on Wednesday, a mainstream writer on a mainstream outlet. The article was titled ‘Skeptics View Pujols’ Return as Unnatural’

Passan explains in the piece that Albert’s return to the lineup is being held under the microscope in baseball’s post-PED era, with players such as Pujols and Jose Bautista as targets who now have to deal with unfounded speculation.

In this era, a baseball star simply cannot win. In 2004, Jack McDowell, then himself a writer for Yahoo, speculated about Mark Prior’s Achilles tendon injury , noting Prior’s slow recovery as a ‘tell-tale’ sign of a player whose muscles got too strong for his tendons. Days later Dr. Blackjack was forced to backpedal from that diagnosis.

Nancy Grace would even be hard-pressed to put MLB players under the coals like some so-called experts and mainstream media do.

The evolution of the social media world has changed the landscape greatly in just the two short years since the infamous Jerod Morris/Raul Ibanez firestorm . As Passan mentioned in his article, Twitter is now the vehicle for anyone to speculate anything about sports – or anything else. Two years ago it was Jerod’s piece that wound up getting Ibanez’s attention. Put Ibanez’s torrid start in 2011 v. 2009 and Raul would be speculated on social media well before Jerod’s long, thought-out piece.

Earlier this year Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler didn’t have to wait until the next morning or even the post-game talk shows to hear himself labeled as a ‘quitter’ after the NFC Championship Game; many of his own NFL brethren were doing that long before the game ended.

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