A story about steroids in baseball that nobody is interested in

Former Red Sox Lou Merlini: “I’m in spring training, and I got an 8:30-9:00 meeting in the morning. I walk into that office, and this happened while I was with the Boston Red Sox before this last regime, I’m sitting in the meeting. There’s a doctor up there and he’s talking about steroids, and everyone was like ‘here we go, we’re gonna sit here and get the whole thing—they’re bad for you.’ No. He spins it and says ‘you know what, if you take steroids and sit on the couch all winter long, you can actually get stronger than someone who works out clean, if you’re going to take steroids, one cycle won’t hurt you, abusing steroids it will.’ He sat there for one hour and told us how to properly use steroids while I’m with the Boston Red Sox, sitting there with the rest of the organization, and after this I said ‘what the heck was that?’ And everybody on the team was like ‘what was that?’ And the response we got was ‘well, we know guys are taking it, so we want to make sure they’re taking it the right way’... Where did that come from? That didn’t come from the Players Association.” This isn’t the story the fans want so the media is going to unfortunately ignore this. Fans would rather read about how Barry Bonds is evil and that steroids ruined the game than read something that provides insight into what was really going on inside baseball. Nobody cares about the steroids in baseball. Do not let the fans outcry of this fool you. They do not care one bit about steroids in baseball. They care about their precious records and it upsets them that evil-doers are setting new records. (H/T to berselius)