MLB steroids
Major League Baseball should be ashamed of itself. But what happens with the likes of Clemens and Pettite is not my main concern. After all, Roger Clemens has his own kids who will ask him if the stories are true. No. That's not the #1 issue here.
I want to know what MLB is going to do to reach out to college and high school kids to let them know that using these performance enhancing drugs can be dangerous to their health. And that if they want to play professional ball... it won't be tolerated in either the Major or the minor leagues.
My suggestion? A minimum outreach effort would include: every time scouts go to a game, they set up a meeting with all players of both teams and let them know... MLB doesn't tolerate it. If it's a half hour talk by the scout, it may take 30 minutes to schedule... and wouldn't take more than an hour of a scout's time per day... I think it's the least that MLB could do for the next few years to reinforce the idea with kids that this alleged behavior will not be tolerated.
Major League Baseball... both management and the players' union... should be ashamed of itself.
Tim White
4 comments:
The report was what I would expect from a retired political hack on the board of the Red Sox...naw, not trying to pay back Clemens...naw!
Big Papi got that way from Gatorade....right.....
From what I understand, Mitchell interviewed only two people (both NYers, I think). But Mitchell didn't claim to do a comprehensive study... he just said this was one sliver of MLB.
If Selig does what is right (and he hasn't for years), he'll press forward with this. But then, the players union and virtually everyone seems complicit in this to some extent.
As for the Sox... one of the lesser known guys on the list was on the Sox in 2001... the year that somebody had his needles fall out of his bag... and he became the running gag for the whole team.
No, the Sox are in trouble on this one too. And if that rumor is true (was reported in the Courant, I think), then these gents knew (or should have known)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2001.shtml
including Manny, Mirabelli, Varitek and Wake.
My guess is that everyone wanted to win... so owners, players taking drugs and players who were relatively less "valuable" all accepted it in a quest to win.
And this may very well all still be quiet if it weren't for Caminiti speaking out... and that was several years ago... so even after he blew the lid off it... it's still taken years to get this far... and I wonder how many more college and high school kids continued taking stuff in the meantime.
Yankees ain't doing so hot this century, too baaaadd!
A nice full-page Ad, in opposition to the mall, was in this week’s Herald. About time.
Check out the Cheshire Town Post site. A review of the latest pro mall petition proves there is little support for the mall. Out of 150 signatures there are some interesting signers, the current owners of the 107 acres and their families, as well as Doug Calcagni’s realtors and some signatures that were obviously signed be someone other than the signed name. 54 out of 150 signatures are very interesting. Why do these people have to resort to these tactics to push up the number in support of this mall?
See the results and their petition
http://leversandpulleys.com/cheshiretownpost/
Or click on the link Tim has under blogs.
Also, visit
http://cheshiresmartgrowth.com/
to see the difference between the Myth and Reality
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