Even more disturbing is the portrayal in the movie "Friday Night Lights" when high school player Boobie Myles gets hurt and everyone - coaches, players, fans, family, all pressure him to get back on the field before he's ready.

Boobie Miles is a real guy, of course, and the portrayal seems to reflect reality. That injury changed the trajectory of his life, it appears. I enjoyed reading Buzz Bissinger's short FNL sequel focusing on Boobie Miles.

as usual mike is the most reasonable person like evah

mike should work as a professional arbitration person because he got COMMON SENSE

bob's #4 is AWESOME PRIMEY!!!!

sportswriters/fans/players do not now and have never worried about this "long term health" bullstuff. if they did then cortisone and painkillers would be banned RIGHT NOW and would have been banned a long LONG time ago. remember jim bouton saying that a pitcher would eagerly take something that gave him 5 MPH more on his FB if he knew before that it would take 5 years off his life. he said that in 69.

the ONLY reason that people are seriously UP SET about roids is because of The Sacred Home Run Record. lets be honest. it is why absolutely NOBODY even the roid haters/they should be banned/stats stricken from the records blahblah only obsess about barry lamar and home runs. if barry lamar had hit .394 being careful not to break The Ted's Sacred .400 Barrier, and had broken The All Time Sacred Doubles And Triples Records, wouldn't nobody have cared - and oh yeah - he couldn't break The Sacred All Time RBI Record neither.

in the 60s/70s "anti-drug" people were hysterical about LSD/peyote ( i remember seeing this anti-drug movie obviously made in the late 60s where some young beautiful blond girl is given LSD and she is driven permanently insane and commits suicide because of it) heroine and mary j wanna. nobody gave a shtt about greenies. cocaine was great until the drug dealers started shooting (i mean with guns) too many people. eric clapton's pro-cocaine use song was a big hit - wasn't exactly "i seen the needle and the damage done"

it is obvious that what is socially good/ok/bad to do changes over time. it used to be perfectly legal to beat/rape your wife. if used to be perfectly OK for teenage males to have sex with females over 18. it used to be perfectly OK for males over 18 to date/marry teenage females.

in baseball it used to be ok to do all KINDS of stuff it is no longer OK to do. and very obviously until That Evulll Barry Lamar Bonds Who Is Bout The Worst Person In The World, broke The Sacred All Time Home Run Record. we want to go and punish him NOW for what he is supposed to have done THEN.

which is stupid. do we want to go back and prosecute all the males who are now Old Guys who married when they were in their 203/30s/40s/older to teenage grrls as young as 13 when it was legal and socially acceptable to do this? even now it is not really socially acceptable for an Old Guy especially an Old Rich Guy to go marry some 20-40 years younger female( who has to be over 18) - he gets laughed at and she is referred to as a "trophy wife"

sportswriters and lots of fans don't agree that any substance enhances performance unless it makes the muscles larger. i would bet that if greenies had not been banned but put in the same category as mary j wanna in the ML CBA that wouldn't sportswriters have cared.

There's the BBWAA of 1985, who weighed the differences between amps and no amps, and overwhelmingly picked amps. Then there's the BBWAA of 2012, who looked at steroids and said this cannot stand. In between, there was the BBWAA of 1998, who vehemently attacked Steve Wilstein's andro reporting, and wrote valentines to Big Mac's musculature saving the game, because chicks dig the long ball. Before that, there was the BBWAA of 1988 and 1995 who, faced with brief public outbursts of anti-steroid feeling, looked at steroids and judged them uninteresting or irrelevant.

We rely on all of these BBWAAs to choose baseball's "immortals" and shape its lasting legacy.

It's too bad these four or five BBWAAs that existed within a quarter-century's time didn't write their sports columns for DC Comics. Julius Schwartz could have designated them as BBWAA-One, BBWAA-Two, BBWAA-Three, BBWAA-Prime, BBWAA-S, and so on.

DC Comics eventually streamlined their stupidly gnarled continuity into one coherent timeline-- but then, explaining why the rings of different Green Lanterns would be variously powerless against wood or the color yellow is far more important to get straight.

The BBWAA of 1988 denominated Willie Stargell a first-ballot HOFer three years after John Milner and Dale Berra testified under oath that Pops was not only a greenie user, but a greenie pusher.

The BBWAA of 1988 denominated Willie Stargell a first-ballot HOFer three years after John Milner and Dale Berra testified under oath that Pops was not only a greenie user, but a greenie pusher.

Bonds should have instituted Bonds Bars for teammates to wear on their hats after making good plays and hugged Jeff Kent to cultivate a We Are Family atmosphere in the clubhouse.

McGwire was a fun-loving, forearm-bashing teammate, too. Hugged not only his own guys, but the other teams' guys.

Didn't work for him.

I've always taken the position that professional sports should remove restrictions against medically-supervised PED use in exchange for (1) full disclosure about what athletes are using, (2) a full-fledged program to educate people on what's being used, the benefits of supervised use, and the risks of unsupervised use (and abuse).

-- MWE

I'd go along with that as long as those doctors were all from the Mayo Clinic or some similar group of blue ribbon physicians, and as long as the PED use was for strictly regulated periods of rehabilitation.

I'd go along with that as long as those doctors were all from the Mayo Clinic or some similar group of blue ribbon physicians, and as long as the PED use was for strictly regulated periods of rehabilitation.

You mean like only for day games after night games? Or if there was a long trip before the series?