Here we go again. This time a disgruntled employee at a wellness clinic in Miami decided to release confidential records to a local newspaper.
A-Rod is on the list. So is the Nationals fantastic pitcher Gio Gonzalez.
HGH is the term being bandied about the most, the drug that baseball is going to be testing for regularly this season.
Newer drugs, not currently being tested for like IGF-1 and GHRP are also being mentioned.
Is this a game of cat and mouse? Players always looking for advantages in drugs that aren't screened for in regular testing and using them until they too have quit and find something else.
Baseball isn't really cleaning up its sport. What it's really doing is getting players to try more and more exotic drugs that cannot be tested for. That's scary. And it's only going to get worse.
In a sport that pays hundreds of millions to its greatest stars, some are going to take every advantage they can to make sure they get that money. That's the reality.
That's the sad reality.
And baseball isn't going to get better. It's just going to get more dangerous for players who break the rules.
No solutions are going to be offered here today. I don't think there are any.
You can't change human nature. And human nature has a very, very dark side.
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