Wooo, steroids! It's almost like nothing else is going on in baseball ... oh, right: When Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drug use is released, likely later this week, at least one former Oriole fully expects to be mentioned prominently.In the procession of average baseball players wrapped up in accusations of steroid use, is David Segui the best? He's an obvious notch or ten below Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and the like, but he's no marginal AAA player, either. He had a long professional career with plus-league-average numbers. There's an obvious motive for Segui, as there is for other players ... but maybe his seems less honest, less visceral. If you took steroids for 10 years to put up a 110 OPS+, was it really worth it? What's the effing point?
Retired first baseman David Segui said today he has experimented with anabolic steroids, bought shipments from his friend, former New York Mets clubhouse attendant and admitted drug distributor Kirk Radomski, and reiterated he used human growth hormone with a legal prescription from a Florida doctor.
But Segui told The Sun that he declined to talk to former Sen. George Mitchell because he didn't want to betray the trust of other ballplayers or be caught in a game of speculation about what former teammates or opponents did or didn't do. He also didn't want people wondering what information might have came from him.
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12-11-2007 @ 1:13AM
theomnivore said...
Whats the effin point? Money and competitiveness; that's always been the point. If I could take a pill to make me better at my job, I would take it unless there were significant risks. If I could take a pill that would make me so much better at my job that I would make exponentially more money, I would do so unless the risks were astronomical. This would be immoral. It would probably be illegal. And I would do it, because I like money and I have professional/occupational pride.
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12-11-2007 @ 4:34AM
AT said...
The point? $41,836,952 (Baseball-Reference) in salary for his career is a good place to start. Let's say David Segui sans steroids is a replacement-level player. There's a huge difference between a fifteen-year career netting $40M and a two or three year cup of coffee at the MLB min. wage.
BTW now seems like a good time to point out that I am struggling through a BA that will earn me about $20-50,000 a year for the rest of my career. And David Segui made that every 2-5 days in 2004, logging 59 at-bats and 2 games in the field that season. Not that I'm bitter.
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12-11-2007 @ 4:31PM
Phil said...
NOW ALL U PEOPLE GET OFF BONDS A-- OK. WHEN THE LIST COMES OUT, WE WILL SEE WHO WAS CHEATING. U CAN'T PUT THIS ALL ON ONE PERSON. BELICHEAT PAYS 500,000, F--KING POCKET CHANGE IN HIS COUCH. BUT WHEN BONDS DOES THIS PUT HIM AWAY. GOD I LOVE AMERICA.
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