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Baseball can't win against PEDs
Are we seriously even debating the issue as to why so many athletes risk future shame, derision and ridicule by using performance-enhancing drugs?
It was the old hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan that coined the phrase "C.R.E.A.M" - translation - Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
On Tuesday, the Miami New Times released a 5,400-word story about the results of its 3-month investigation into a firm called Biogenesis of America.
The information linked prominent Major League Baseball players Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, Melky Cabrera of the Toronto Blue Jays, Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers, and Gio Gonzalez of the Washington Nationals with the anti-aging clinic that allegedly specialized in administering performance-enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone.
I'm not going to get into the debate of whether or not fans really care anymore that some athletes cheat to produce the lofty statistics we are entertained by.
But, if Major League Baseball is truly serious about getting rid of what it, at least publicly, acknowledges as a scourge in the game, it's going to have to up the stakes in its war against PEDs.
The problem is there is probably nothing it can truly do.
Read more: Baseball can't win against PEDs
Are we seriously even debating the issue as to why so many athletes risk future shame, derision and ridicule by using performance-enhancing drugs?
It was the old hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan that coined the phrase "C.R.E.A.M" - translation - Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
On Tuesday, the Miami New Times released a 5,400-word story about the results of its 3-month investigation into a firm called Biogenesis of America.
The information linked prominent Major League Baseball players Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, Melky Cabrera of the Toronto Blue Jays, Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers, and Gio Gonzalez of the Washington Nationals with the anti-aging clinic that allegedly specialized in administering performance-enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone.
I'm not going to get into the debate of whether or not fans really care anymore that some athletes cheat to produce the lofty statistics we are entertained by.
But, if Major League Baseball is truly serious about getting rid of what it, at least publicly, acknowledges as a scourge in the game, it's going to have to up the stakes in its war against PEDs.
The problem is there is probably nothing it can truly do.
Read more: Baseball can't win against PEDs
