DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE UNDERSTAND THE REAL PRICE OF STEROID ABUSE?
Earlier, several members of the Writers’ Bloc considered the current steroid “scandal” and basically decided that it wasn’t so bad, that players should be able to do what they wanted to with their bodies, and that, in any case, there’s nothing much anybody can really do to stop it. Now, Chuck Hirshberg — normally the most affable and agreeable of colleagues — offers his opinion on these opinions, as follows: Wrong. WRONG. WRONG!!!!! The dangers of steroids | By Chuck Hirshberg A few weeks ago, when spring training commenced, a glorious sound was heard throughout baseball nation: “Sploosh.” It was the sound of major leaguers flushing their steroids down the toilet. There’s no need to mention any names. Players who, for years, have been suspected of juicing rolled into camp looking ever-so-trim, as if some naughty child had let the air out of them while they were asleep. “I been, um … dietin’,” these players explained, sheepishly, but no one was fooled. Steroid users were running sca
