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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Will Carroll speaks
Let’s listen. He also addresses corticosteroids as it related to Sandy Koufax. Last year, I brought up Sandy issue as it related to Kirk Gibson. I was going to write this to Will, but I’ll post it here, and hopefully Will will see it too:
Will, good article. You should write more articles of this type.
As for corticosteroids (i.e., Kirk Gibson’s The Natural moment), what makes that drug less bad than steroids or hGH? As of at least a year ago, the Gibson drug was on the WADA banned list (though some countries were asking for its removal). So, clearly there are some “inner circle Hall of Fame” drugs where it will be banned for the next 100 years, and there’s fringe drugs that undergo debate. At one point, Andro for example was banned by Health Canada, IOC, NFL, but not MLB. I suppose the Gibson drug is one of those fringe drugs. How do I know that hGH is not in the same class? And where do greenies fall in all this? Wouldn’t some sort of classification system be better, so we can distinguish between lifting a $1.39 cigarette lighter (slap on wrist), stealing a $139,000 car (bad), and embezzelling $139 million (slap on wrist)?