Gammons on juicing. Wonderful stuff, with lots of good points, including the one about Gaylord Perry and his spitballs, and the fact that Giambi and Bonds aren’t the only bad guys in this fiasco:
There are anywhere from four to 10 pitchers in the Hall of Fame who cheated in some form or another; Gaylord Perry wrote a book about it.
All those civil rights that our government shredded at the expense of Giambi, Bonds, et al., aren’t coming back, much less their reputations.
I can understand that players are necessarily wary about testing: it looks like teams will use any excuse to get out of bad contracts, as Jason Giambi or Denny Neagle will testify. But it also looks like that’s the only way to regain the public trust. Leave the juicing to the 300-lb hulks slamming into each other on Sundays.