Major League Players & Steroids: WTF?!
ESPN.com - INSIDER - Buster Olney Blog
I am a 37 year old man who still plays a pretty solid outfield...On my city "D League" softball team. I played some pretty good baseball in my day...At the high school and later summer league level. In fact I can honestly say that the only thing that truly separates me from players that play at the Major League level is talent!
I'm here to tell you, I don't care if I had taken every steroid known to man in my late teens & early 20's or if I sprinkled HGH in my Mountain Dew during my "prime" as a ball player I would still be a Quality Manager or in some other inane position...I would just have even less hair but more zits.
It takes an entirely different skill set to play at the major league level than pretty much every man in the world has. And I could rarely hit a summer-league fastball let alone the BB's being thrown in the "big game" so pumped up muscles would have made no difference whatsoever! Two things to consider here:
1) Performance-enhancing drugs seem to be more and more ubiquitous at the Major League level. You want to villify Barry Bonds, why haven't others racked up the numbers he has? One answer...Talent. I hate the selfish, self-centered jerk, but he has talent.
2) So what if a player wants to pollute himself with acne-creating, testicle-shrinking drugs...Let him! It's HIS body! If an athlete chooses the perpetual ache of tommorrow over the possible stats of today; it's HIS body!! By the way, that's my philosophy at the broader public level as well, so don't scream "but the drugs are illegal".
Stop this mad talk about Barry and the asterisk on his record. We're finding pitchers taking the stuff, we're finding career minor-leaguers taking the stuff. They are not performing anywhere NEAR the level Barry is because of...Talent.
I have to go. I have a design of experiment to write so I need to get injected with some horse sperm to make that report fly!!
I am a 37 year old man who still plays a pretty solid outfield...On my city "D League" softball team. I played some pretty good baseball in my day...At the high school and later summer league level. In fact I can honestly say that the only thing that truly separates me from players that play at the Major League level is talent!
I'm here to tell you, I don't care if I had taken every steroid known to man in my late teens & early 20's or if I sprinkled HGH in my Mountain Dew during my "prime" as a ball player I would still be a Quality Manager or in some other inane position...I would just have even less hair but more zits.
It takes an entirely different skill set to play at the major league level than pretty much every man in the world has. And I could rarely hit a summer-league fastball let alone the BB's being thrown in the "big game" so pumped up muscles would have made no difference whatsoever! Two things to consider here:
1) Performance-enhancing drugs seem to be more and more ubiquitous at the Major League level. You want to villify Barry Bonds, why haven't others racked up the numbers he has? One answer...Talent. I hate the selfish, self-centered jerk, but he has talent.
2) So what if a player wants to pollute himself with acne-creating, testicle-shrinking drugs...Let him! It's HIS body! If an athlete chooses the perpetual ache of tommorrow over the possible stats of today; it's HIS body!! By the way, that's my philosophy at the broader public level as well, so don't scream "but the drugs are illegal".
Stop this mad talk about Barry and the asterisk on his record. We're finding pitchers taking the stuff, we're finding career minor-leaguers taking the stuff. They are not performing anywhere NEAR the level Barry is because of...Talent.
I have to go. I have a design of experiment to write so I need to get injected with some horse sperm to make that report fly!!
posted by Invictus | 11:06 PM
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