A buddy pointed me to an interesting article by John Brattain over at Sympatico/MSN on the motives for cheating in baseball. With all the fuss over steroids, HGH, and other performance-enhancing drugs, John asks the logical question of why cheaters do what they do. The reasons, although hardly surprising, are a bit disturbing and force (or should force) us to ask some honest questions about ourselves as a society and, perhaps more realistically, as individuals within that society.
There are some real nuggets in here:
…people will do pretty heinous things for comparatively small amounts of cash; so we have to ask …read more

Yeah, so one of the “feel-good stories of the year” maybe isn’t. At least, that’s what some people think. Rick Ankiel, for his part, claims that he was acting under doctor’s orders when he took human growth hormone.
What do we believe? I don’t know. I’m pretty sure we’ll hear a bunch of stuff about Barry Bonds and double standards. Who knows, maybe the race card will be played. For now, here are two statements I’m comfortable making about the situation:

Nobody who has played Major League Baseball within the past 15-20 years is above suspicion of taking any kind of performance-enhancing …read more