Steroids In The Hall And Beyond

Steroids and the Baseball Hall of Fame just don't mesh well. Steroids in baseball paint a picture of shady cheaters, selling out their bodies, integrity, morals, honor, and self-respect in dark corners of clubhouses around the USA, aided by equally-as-shady trainers and suppliers. The Baseball Hall of Fame in

Cooperstown is everything that is right with sports; legends inhabiting the halls of a grand museum in a romantic little city, a destination for tourists, fans, and people who seek a wave of majestic nostalgia from America's pastime.

Steroids and the hall, though polar opposites, were always destined for a meeting once Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa captivated the sports world with their highway home-run chases in the early 2000's. Baseball sold its soul when it let PEDs run rampant in the game. Although the sport is recovering, this year's hall of fame ballot sends the sport back to a time when the powers of the MLB turned a blind eye to the steroids that helped hit home runs, put butts in seats, and finally drive baseball past its pre-lockout popularity.

This is the first year of hall of fame eligibility for the likes of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza, and Sammy Sosa, and players with checkered pasts such as Mark McGwire, Jeff Bagwell, and Rafael Palmero remain on the ballot from 2012. It's unavoidable. We'll find out soon enough if baseball's journalists feel the stars of the steroid era deserve to be immortalized, but the road to that decision for many of those writers, and the people that call themselves fans of the game, has been, is, and will be difficult, toying with the very basis of our ideas about right and wrong, just and cruel, fair and unfair, in sports and life as a whole.

Andy Reid responds to report that his son possessed steroids at his time of death

The Philadelphia Eagles’ head coach Andy Reid has responded to the report that steroids were found in his son Garrett’s room at the time of his death.

County District Attorney John Morganelli said Monday that anabolic steroids were found in the room where Garrett Reid was staying when he overdosed on heroin on Aug. 5.

Garrett was working with the team as part of their staff during their training camp.

In a statement released to Players View from the team, Reid’s tone was as could be expected.

“As you all know, my son Garrett battled addiction for many years. While there were some victories along the way, it ultimately was a battle that he lost and that cost him his life. Our family feels the pain of that loss every day.

“Today’s report saddens me greatly, but only confirms the troubles Garrett encountered in the final years of his life. As parents, we were encouraged by his apparent progress but, like many addicts, he was able to conceal the signs of relapse.