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...cusp of another golden age, as attendance swelled to record levels and the Boston Red Sox mounted an astonishing, myth-busting World Series run. Now, as teams get ready for opening day, drugs have dulled the allure. First, leaked grand jury testimony revealed that Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi had allegedly taken performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds denied knowing those substances were steroids.) Then, in a splashy new book titled Juiced, Canseco wrote that he had injected McGwire and Palmeiro with steroids and noted that they were far from alone in their drug usage...
...part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, as well as Commissioner Bud Selig. So far, only Canseco, who has a new book out fingering dozens of players as steroid users, has said he will come...
Unlike the Mets, the Yankees were correct in viewing themselves as contenders, and can hence be excused for trying to sign the one supposed missing piece each time someone came along. Unfortunately for the Yankees, not all of their moves turned out as expected. Jason Giambi provided less bang-for-the-buck in 2004 than almost anyone else in baseball. Kevin Brown, meanwhile, earned nearly $16 million but had an ERA over four, made just 22 starts, and got torched by the Red Sox in the ALCS, recording just 10 outs combined in his two starts...
...season was not kind to Giambi, 33. He had obviously lost weight when he reported to Yankees preseason camp in February, and by July he had lost bat speed and 65 points against his .302 career average. He lost the month of August to a mysterious ailment that was later diagnosed as a benign tumor. (The tumor, which the New York Daily News reported was near his pituitary gland, could be linked to Clomid, a women's fertility drug that boosts testosterone production and that Giambi has admitted he might have used.) And last week it seemed possible he could...
...course, tainted Yankee Jason Giambi at least is an adult; teen athletes, however, have started using the same drugs the pros do. Again, setting a good example for kids is a noble argument--but one that society hardly heeds otherwise. If steroid scold John McCain were a woman, he might be pushing laws against plastic surgery among pop starlets, the better to save girls from deadly eating disorders. President George W. Bush denounced steroid use in the State of the Union. "It sends the wrong message--that there are shortcuts to accomplishment," said the Yale legacy student...