Is baseball ruining steroids?
[Laughs.] There’s a serious question there somewhere, because steroids have saved the lives of people with AIDS, saved the lives of people with horrible, debilitating injuries; improved the lives of people with terrible muscle palsies. And yet, steroids are called by Bud Selig “a terrible substance that must be eradicated.” So, if you’re talking about the demonization of something which in some ways has offered tremendous medical and scientific advantages to people who in previous centuries would have been either cast off or left for dead, then, yeah: baseball has given steroids a bad name. With steroids, it’s a question not of use, but of abuse…They can be very dangerous and very harmful. And they could also upset the competitive balance of a sport…Part of the problem is…people are taking them in back alleys, people are getting injected in the team men’s room. And it’s not being overseen by a doctor, by someone who actually has some training… When you talk about how some pitchers ta
