Another drug-free blog post.
By now, you've heard the latest in the ongoing story of baseball and steroids. Alex Rodriguez admitted to using steroids between 2000 and 2003 - after damning information was leaked to Sports Illustrated over the weekend. They always confess and say how stupid they were after the evidence is presented. Before that, we must have thought they were innocent and intelligent. The thing that confounds me about the steroids stories are the so-called purists who claim that the game is forever damaged and irreparably harmed by players who use drugs to enhance their performance. Poppycock. Let's go back to 1968. Bob Gibson led the majors with a 1.12 ERA, Denny McLain won 31 games and Carl Yazstremski led the American League in hitting with a .301 batting average. Why? Because prior to the 1968 season, they raised the pitchers mound an inch and a half. Was the game irreparably harmed? No. Some numbers changed, and it became more of a pitcher's game, but baseball was still basebal...