Possibly with a big assist from WBTV’s Danielle Trotta.
No wonder NASCAR gets away with murder. The iffy reporting enables it. Recall that days before McGee reported, citing unnamed sources, that NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield had tested positive for methamphetamine, Meck Deck readers were told that the circumstances strongly suggested that the unnamed “illegal” drug NASCAR claims Mayfield tested positive for was meth.
McGee wants to treat his story as some sort of big scoop rather than the logical deduction of available facts. From his sit down with Trotta now it is clear why — McGee does not have a logical bone in his body. He does not seem to recognize — at all — the potential for the Adderall which Mayfield was prescribed to both A) Function as a performance enhancing drug for race car drivers and B) Be abused just as any amphetamine could be.
And McGee seems downright contemptuous of the notion that the Adderall and Claritin-D that Mayfield said he took combined to produce a false positive for meth. The decongestant pseudoephedrine is only a pre-cursor chemical for meth and Adderall is speed just like meth.
Instead, McGee is spinning a fanciful tale that Mayfield was “high” or “under the influence” via meth during a NASCAR race, completing ignoring the Adderall aspect, even after NASCAR doubled back to say, whoops, that is a violation of our drug policy too.
Still left unaddressed by McGee or any other reporters supposedly on the NASCAR beat is the number of drivers who have tested positive for Adderall — ever. Now that NASCAR has said that Adderall use is forbidden, wouldn’t that be an interesting thing to know? Whether guys on speed ripped around racetracks at 200mph, a few feet from paying customers?
But for now, the Mayfield sideshow. NASCAR seems to be moving on the notion that Mayfield used Adderall and pseudoephedrine in an attempt to mask meth use. You know what? Could be. Absolutely.
However, ask yourself why a guy who has a prescription for legal speed would go out and buy illegal, street-grade speed. One answer might be, because he is a hopeless drug addict with a death wish. And it took a urine sample for NASCAR officials to notice this? See, any which way you turn on this matter, NASCAR looks like crap. To a fair-minded, independent thinking-person.
Unlike Ryan McGee.
Bonus Warning: Danielle, do a better job of thinking for yourself next time. These national guys are not any smarter than you — just more ruthless and self-promoting. Don’t let them intimidate you into buying what they are selling.
