Has There Always Been Enhanced Performance?

Most Americans couldn’t care less about steroids in sport. Mike Penner’s article about baseball ratings going up confirms it. People want entertainment. The more you talk about it, the more self-serving it is.

In the ‘60s there weren’t articles condemning Mickey Mantle for hitting home runs drunk. Your self-righteous condemnation of the sport today is almost as deplorable as the cheating itself. To read the articles in this paper, you would think every player is a human equine.

At least now in sport the drugs are a performance enhancer. In the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s the drugs were cocaine and booze. As a Met fan I wish some of the 1988 Mets were on THG instead of on Colombian Gold. Then maybe I would not have had to watch Mike Scioscia hit a home run off Dwight Gooden that ended a potential dynasty.

Donald Cayer

Riverside