San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera created a fictitious website and a nonexistent product designed to prove he inadvertently took the banned substance that caused a positive test under Major League Baseball’s drug program.As Mercury sportswriter Tim Kawakami said, "If the Giants had any thought of bringing him back either in the postseason or next season, this has to end it."
But instead of exonerating Cabrera of steroid use, the Internet stunt trapped him in a web of lies. Amid the information-gathering phase of his doping case last month, his cover story unraveled quickly, and what might have been a simple suspension has attracted further attention from federal investigators and MLB.
I know nothing about performance-enhancing drugs other than what's in the popular press, so treat the following comment accordingly: it seems to me that athletes, like embezzlers, get caught because they're greedy. If they're willing to take a little PED to enhance their performance modestly, they stand a much better chance of passing the test.
But if they pump it up to increase their batting average by nearly 100 points, as Melky Cabrera did from 2010 to 2012, they'll be caught for sure.
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| From MLB.com |
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