Did the Red Sox provide steroids training?

I was going to ream you about not posting the article.....but then I saw the "Least Knowledgeable" Award Winner badge of honor....

For those of you who can't click on links because of firewall issues....here's the article:

 

Big claim, I am sure we will hear if this has any truth to it. the media will talk to every other player on that team and if true someone else will confirm it. If false, this guy has really hurt his career in media.

 

not really the strongest story

 

I wouldn't beat Don up too much for not posting the article. While I always appreciate someone posting the article so I don't have to go looking, it is copyright infringement, so not posting it isn't necessarily a bad thing, just inconvenient for most, and unfortunate for those who can't get to it at all.

Anyway, that last line is the one I think doesn't get the attention it warrants. People crucify the Barrys, the Marks, the Sammys, the ARods, the Mannys, but in the end, baseball knew what was going on. They knew they could do more to prevent steroid use, yet didn't. Why? I think the answer is obvious to everyone at this point: they wanted to save a sport they let suffer due to the strike.

Yet MLB gets a pretty big "Get Out of Jail Free" card when the topic is brought up. It's always on the players as being at fault, with a passing mention that MLB turned a blind eye, and Bud Selig is a total assclown.

Not to say that players were victims. I still believe you should know what the hell you're putting in your own body and at what cost. But, how do you tell a fringe player that he should "do the right thing" when he can stick a needle in his ass on Monday and deposit a check for 50 grand on Friday? When faced with the option of spending the entire span of our useful years in the minors, busing city to city, or playing in front of a packed house on a Sunday afternoon on national tv, let's be honest, what would any of us do?

It really does bother me that baseball as an organization, and the teams represented by that organization, are all able to walk away from this unscathed, while guys who gave their entire lives to the sport are left to hang.

The players are certainly guilty, but so are the union, MLB itself, and every franchise in it.

 

The Yanks had all the experts, the Sox were just trying to even the playing field.

 

Those scrappy underdogs!

 

I heard Merloni and Duquette talk about this on the radio yesterday. More of a whimper than a roar. Sorry, Don. I know you had higher hopes.


In other exciting news that DOTTHR might enjoy, Dan Duquette hinted that he will be soon coming out with "more to say" in "some other medium," the implication being that he's coming out with a book. Although, why the hell he doesn't just say that is beyond me.