David Wells Says ‘No’ to Drugs, Little Else

The term bon vivant, translateled literally, means “good living.” And for as wildly divergent as individuals’ opinions are as to what constitutes good living, the term as a noun has a rather specific definition: a well-traveled, jovial fellow who can drink enough to kill a Clydesdale. Or, in other words, David Wells.
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↵Baseball’s old galoot, who is closer to Hall of Fame viability than you think, recently disclosed something that sounds surprising but isn’t: that Jose Canseco offered him HGH in 2001. It seems like a bombshell, but really, Canseco was probably offering it to Bud Selig, George W. Bush, the Olsen twins, his parents, and the greater Salinas, KS area.
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↵There’s no reason to think Wells is making this up, and for Canseco’s voluminous faults, dishonesty about PEDs isn’t one of them; we imagine he’d whole-heartedly admit to this if someone cared enough to ask him.
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↵So while it’s good that for once, Wells just said no to something that’s bad for him, it’s a little disappointing that he’s using it as the force behind a hardline approach to PEDs, advocating a lifetime ban from baseball for usage. Yes, that would get rid of usage pretty quickly, but then the best player in the league would be, like, David Eckstein. And nobody wants that.↵