Giambi: Good News/Bad News?
Now that Jason Giambi
has apparently admitted using steroids, I couldn't help thinking that the explosion of money for premier athletes is kind of a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that you'll make a ton of money, the bad news is that you'll probably ruin your health long term so that you can't enjoy all that money you've made in your old age.
The local radio loudmouths were speculating about
Luis Gonzalez, noting his incredible 2001 campaign and that he had not put up numbers like that before or since. That part is true; Gonzo hit 57 homers in 2001 versus a high of 31, and slugged .688 versus a prior high of .549. Of course, the problem with this line of analysis is that lots of players have career years seemingly out of nowhere.
Roger Maris hit 61 homers in 1961; his high except for that was 39. Would anyone care to suggest that Maris was doing 'roids during the Kennedy Administration?