Rick_Garcia's Blog

This could turn out to be a great day for baseball.
George Mitchell's report on performance enhancing drugs told us something we already knew. For years baseball players have been playing with poison to gain a competitive edge. They made a transition from steroids to growth hormones without a hitch. HGH is a legitimate drug by the way most often prescribed by Doctors to children with stunted growth.
Drug testing in baseball only barely became comprehensive in 2003. And they still don't test for HGH. And if you listen to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players union they won't anytime soon. Donald Fehr says the current drug testing policy works.. Well it works better in detecting steroids. But you need a blood test for HGH and that's not part of baseballs policy....yet.
Let it be Donald! Your union members may have been killing themselves that past several years trying to make big money and break elusive records.
And the reason we should care about our sports stars turning into freaks for our entertainment is because of those grieving parents who marched on Capitol Hill. They are the ones who turned your boys in. They are the ones whose kids wanted to copy their idols and put stuff into their body that eventually killed them. That's what got politicians involved. And by the way, taking HGH and steroids without a legitimate doctors advice is against federal law. Don't like it?! Change the law!
You guys have had a good run. Lots of attention, lots of money, lots of records. I have a feeling we'll find out the price you paid in the next several years when the effects of taking that stuff really hits you!
The records won't likely change as a result of the Mitchell report. The players won't likely be punished for their past drug use. But we can move forward.
To a day when the honest players finally get to step on to a level playing field.
When baseball can be more than just a freak show!