Jim Rice issues a shallow opinion: Steroids are dumb

Jim Rice readies himself for the Cooperstown Hall of Fame by talking some baseball.  The ex-Boston Red Sox slugger who smashed 382 home runs reveals an astonishing lack of thought when he called the use of anabolic steroids 'dumb'.

Jim Rice, if there were not revelations of steroid era juicing your rather paltry (compared to juicers) career sum of 382 dingers might get you a free beer at the Dew Drop Inn;  382 home runs is about a 5-6 year total for 'roiders.  Jim, your best year was 49 homers at age 25; in your best late career year was 39 at age 30.  In your waning days you hit 27 and 20 at 32 and 33 years of age.  Your last years power totals would be considered banal for even a shortstop these days.  You have very little in the way of post-season achievement.  Come on man, if you think taking PEDs is dumb, you don't realize that the PED generation buries your stats.  That is the point.

Take Maany Ramirez.  at age 33 when you hit a paltry 20 home runs Manny hammered 45.  At the age you should have retired (36), Manny whacked out 37 home runs and 121 RBI leading to a 20 million dollar contract (and no obviously it was the brilliant new era of sports conditioning...just look at Manny).  At that age you, Jim Rice, hit 2 home runs with 22 RBI.

Using PEDs may be cheating, but in terms of productivity and in terms of salary it sure aint dumb.

Jim Rice said he doesn't get the Steroids Era.

The owner of 382 career home runs over 16 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, Rice said Friday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame that steroids aren't worth it.

"I don't understand why guys think they need steroids," said Rice,  specifically addressing a reporter who asked the 2009 Hall of Famer whether Manny Ramirez's recent 50-game suspension for using a banned substance tarnishes the legacy of Boston's left fielders.

Ramirez played left field for Boston from 2001-08 before the Red Sox traded him to the Los Angeles Dodgers in July. Major League Baseball suspended Ramirez on May 7 for testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a female fertility drug that can lessen side effects such as decreased sperm counts and testicle shrinkage that may coincide with the end of a steroids cycle.

"Babe Ruth didn't need it, Lou Gehrig didn't need it, and now Manny is going to lose about $8 million dollars," Rice continued. "It's just dumb."

The only dumm thing, Jim Rice, is that you and the other baseball players who didn't use PEDs and steroids stood by while your game was cheated.  We understand that it is never easy to speak out against fellow players, especially powerful cheaters with big stats and big money.  However, keep in mind your election to the Hall of Fame is essentially a sympathy play for a clean player...because your stats are mundane when compared with juiced era stats.

Comments

[anon]

Wait, who says Jim Rice is clean? It's pretty well accepted that the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 70s were institutionally juicing, so why not other athletes?

[Steroid Nation]

That is a good point Anon. However, looking at the stats and looking at Rice, he doesn't meet the visual test.

:-)

[chris]

Manny is going to lose $8 million dollars. Well, yes, as long as you don't count the tens upon tens of millions of dollars he's made by managing to maintain a high level of performance well beyond a natural prime. Or even the other millions he's going to still make this season when he gets back. The reason they use the darn things is because the upside is far greater than the downside.

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