Brick House
May 5th, 2005This guy used steroids?
I’m glad this story came out. I had a very heated argument with my mommy during Spring Break, around the same time of the Congressional Hearings. I am for strict punishments for steroids users, since the sport has the right to set standards like these, but I am opposed to rewriting record books. Because where do you draw the line? Was the sport ever pure?
I’m not saying that Babe Ruth may have used steroids, even if they were around. He was fat and liked to eat hot dogs. I’m just saying that the news about House helps illustrate the fact that sometimes when we say things aren’t like they used to be, that they’re worse off than in the good old days, we’re whitewashing history. I’ve been reading Larceny and Old Leather, and it turns out baseball has always been full of liars and cheaters.