Supposedly Steve Phillips said this last week on his XM Radio show:
Did Steroids ‘Save’ Baseball?
While discussing the Barry Bonds perjury trial, Phillips went on to suggest that steroids helped the game.
"Thank God for steroids," he said. "It brought the game back from extinction."
If I may? No man or group of men, nor some muscle-building drug, has ever saved baseball.
Babe Ruth didn’t save baseball, nor did Kennesaw Mountain Landis.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa didn't save baseball, nor did Cal Ripken.
All of those might have, in some small degree, facilitated baseball’s economic fortunes for short periods of time. But I will argue with virtually no reservation that if none of those men had been born, baseball today would be almost exactly what it is.
The game has always been bigger than any one man. Or even any two men, juiced up on ‘roids.
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