I hope he tells us what went wrong with Howard Johnson in ‘88 and ‘90.  Was he doing more or less blow in those seasons? 

By the way, given the financial context he’s playing in, is Darryl Strawberry going to the Dodgers the worst free agent signing ever?

http://www.the-common-man.com

One advantage that the booze, coke, and speed have over steroids is the pale, clear light of time.  As I recall, no one was talking about how “colorful” that drug abuse was at the time.  And considering the continued tut-tutting that Tim Raines gets over the story behind his head-first slides, I’m not sure that the drug angle has quite reached the levels of the Babe’s boozing and womanizing.

But I will point out that alcohol abuse is, has always been, and probably always will be treated much differently than any level of drug abuse.

What’s the story behind the Tim Raines head first slides? Haven’t heard that one.

GWB:  the story goes (maybe from Raines himself) that he used to slide head first because he kept a little vial of cocaine in his back pocket of his uniform and he didn’t want to break it.

I have heard it repeated many times, but I’m not certain of it’s provenance.

While you are no doubt correct about how these revelations will be received relative to the various PED revelations, I nonetheless must insist that your argument is something of a Straw Man.

(I’m so sorry.)

@ Chris H: *Snicker*

We could do some polling here to see how people feel about these transgressions, vis-a-vis the recent steroids revelations and allegations. Ya know, take a Straw poll…