They should establish two Hall of Fames, in my opinion: There should be the unenhanced Hall of the Fame, and then the Enhanced Hall of Fame. Let the cheaters compete against the cheaters, and the rest of the free world against those who don’t. This is a black and white issue, cut and dried, and you’re talking to a guy who cheated himself – and it did no good. Tells you how bad I sucked as an athlete, I guess. That’s why I started writing best-selling books. ‘Roids don’t help writers – it doesn’t make me type any faster.
5. Is it fair for a person accused of steroid or performance enhancing drugs to be in the baseball hall of fame? Why?
I answered that with the last question.
6. Should further investigation be done to prove or disprove steroid use in players already in the hall of fame?
In the first Super Bowl, I’m talking Super Bowl I, the starting center was Bill Curry from Kentucky. He weighed 215 pounds. Do you think he was on steroids? Bill Curry couldn’t play safety now. Starting centers go 300-plus. Only the real guys who can hold the weight stay in the NFL. The steroid users from college fall away, or go play baseball or join the local MME. If you want to investigate the old guys, pick another subject. If you want to investigate the new guys, the only sport you can pick is baseball, because they’re the only sport that doesn’t test.
7. If found guilty of steroid or performance enhancing drug use should players be fined?
Fines will never alleviate the problem until the fine is a million dollars or more. Fining a guy $5,000 who makes $65 million a year is what he pays a week to park his Rolls. It’s change on the counter.
8. Should they be ineligible to be record holders?
I don’t understand this illegible question. If you’re asking that steroids be ineligible to record holders, then yes. If you’re asking me that records be ineligible to record holders, then, yes. Damn, my head hurts and I’m confused.
9. Should they be ineligible to be in the baseball hall of fame?
THIS IS HUGE – If Major League Baseball doesn’t test for steroids, then EVERYONE THEY ALLOWED TO PLAY SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR EVERYTHING, AND THE HEAD OF THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS UNION SHOULD BE HUNG FROM THE HIGHEST TREE. You cannot penalize players for something they did that, at the time they did it, WASN’T ILLEGAL, LIKE THE REST OF SPORTING AMERICA.
10. Should teams with players testing positive for steroids and performance drug use be fined or should the player be held accountable?
UNTIL IT’S AGAINST THE RULES, NO. The Players’ Union is at fault. Period. That’s where this mess started, and that’s where it will end.
11. What can be done to stop drug use in MLB?
In the NFL, they test randomly, fairly, and repeatedly test offenders. All they have to do is adopt the NFL testing policy. Trust me, it’s driven guys out of football that would be playing now. I could name names, but I refuse to protect my innocence.
12. How does drug use effect how children view MLB players?
That you can start playing baseball weighing 165 pounds, and, miraculously, in two years, hit 65 home runs and weigh 250. It just doesn’t happen like that in real life. Barry Bonds himself has become a cartoon character to children.
13. Should the rules of testing positive be stricter on MLB players?
I’ve answered that question 15 times in the previous questions. Answer: Yes.
14. Should trainers and doctors be held accountable for administering steroids and performance enhancing drugs?
Up to the point that the LEAGUE denounced it and DECLARED IT ILLEGAL … NO. Fans don’t understand what professional athletes understand. It boils down to three words that all athletes know: “CAN YOU GO?” When fans see the trainers or doctors rushing out on the field to help an injured athlete, they assume they are acting in the athlete’s best interest. They are not. They are rushing out because millions of dollars rest on this fact: “CAN YOU GO?” If the guy can’t play, the team doesn’t make money, the advertising disappears, and the lights go off. It’s a business. Athletes are nothing but horses or dogs on a racetrack, and that’s it. Anybody who thinks otherwise – how ‘bout Drew Bledsoe getting knocked unconscious and put in the hospital so stone-cold they thought he was dead. Bill Belichick’s answer: Sixth-round draft pick Tom Brady. Does anyone here even remember Drew Bledsoe, or the fact that NOT ONE of his teammates came to visit him while he hovered between life and death in the hospital?
15. Why do you believe that steroid and performance enhancing drugs have become so popular in MLB?
Because they don’t get tested for it. That’s why it’s prevalent in the Arena Football League. These drugs are prevalent in any sport that doesn’t test.
16. Is it becoming harder for players not using steroids and performance enhancing drugs to compete?
Athletes are spending more time trying to find ways to beat the test than finding ways to compete better. It’s the nature of an addict. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, has a drug. It might be working out, fishing, alcohol, sex, friends, computers, MySpace, pot, coke, even the Bible … everybody is addicted to something. We’re all born with an addictive personality. That’s what drives us to meet and greet others – to find people ‘like’ us. Players will never stop cheating. The knock on the door from a so-called “friend” who says “try this” will never end.
17. Is it fair to players not using drugs are losing that their spot to drug users?
Whoever wrote this question was using drugs, because I don’t know what it says. Every player in any locker room knows what’s going on around them, and those that say they don’t are lying. Period. End of story. You’re telling me the guy blowing up in the locker next to me – I can’t see the needle marks, the bruises, in the shower? Give me a break.
18. Is it okay to take Human Growth Hormone (HGH) to help in the healing process of injuries?
That’s a touchy subject. Doctor prescribed. But trust me – if my multi-million-dollar contract depended on it, or I go back to my condo in St. Pete and make $20,000 as a greeter at Beef’s, I’m taking whatever drugs I can get my hands on.
19. Do you believe young children are more likely to use steroids or performance enhancing drugs because MLB players are using them?
Kids emulate their heroes. I was disgusted Sunday to hear my 12-year-old describe to me, start to finish, of all of the melodrama she’s been watching on the WWE … not at OUR house, but on the nights she sleeps-over with a friend, whose mother we trust. So now I have a 12-year-old who believes Vince McMahan’s schtick.
20. Do performance enhancing drugs pose a threat to the integrity of the game of baseball?
Baseball used to be America’s pastime. Today, it’s a joke. Nobody watches baseball, except painters and carpet layers, who are used to watching paint dry and waiting for the wrinkles to roll out of carpet.
21. With the risks associated with steroids why you think athletes still use the drugs?
Again, any athlete will use anything that he or she can get away with if it gives them an advantage in the competition in which they are competing. Not a single athlete in the world thinks beyond this weekend. I’d pay money to see what made Lance Armstrong’s nuts dry up like grapefruit seeds – guaranteed, it was steroids.
22. Should testing for drugs be changed from mandatory random tests to just mandatory everyday test?
Just have mandatory testing – then do it, and actually do it to the guys that win. Who cares if you tested your third-string, backup relief pitcher who never plays? Test the starters. Prove a point.
23. Do you feel sorry for athletes that have to resort to drugs to play better?
That’s like asking me if I feel sorry for myself. I got to actually play in a professional football game because I did what I had to do. I’m not sorry, and at the time, it wasn’t against the rules or the law. It is now. This question is like asking farmers in Afghanistan if they’re sorry for eating coca leaves. Once the law, the establishment, and the population at large declares that such behavior is wrong, you can’t penalize for it. That’s been done, and now everyone, me included, needs to come clean, tell the truth, and move on. I cracked up laughing yesterday watching CNN when Keith Richards – KEITH RICHARDS – came on TV and said kids shouldn’t do drugs. Keith, we can’t, because you did them all. Our kids have to wait for you to die, so they can cremate you – and smoke your ashes.
24. Have steroids and performance enhancing drugs deluded baseball records?
No, the Players’ Union has deluded baseball. The so-called Union should be banned from the sport, and all of the millions it has should be invested in the charities of all the players who will now be banned from the sport – thanks to those assholes.
25. Have steroids and performance enhancing drugs made baseball more interesting and entertaining to watch with all the homeruns and records being broken?
