Here’s just one small example of why we can’t only hold the players accountable for baseball’s steroid era, but also general managers, owners and team personal.
The Mitchell report, released Thursday, included a 2002 incident in which Stan Conte, then the Giants’ trainer, told Sabean that he suspected Barry Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was dealing steroids in the clubhouse. Sabean took no action.
Shortly after federal agents raided Balco Laboratories and Anderson’s home in September 2003, Magowan told investigators that he asked Sabean whether the Giants “had a problem” with Anderson dispensing steroids to players.
“According to Magowan, Sabean responded that he was not aware of any problem the Giants might have,” the Mitchell report stated. “However, Sabean strongly denied that such a conversation occurred.”
Sabean took no action. That says it all right there, doesn’t it? You’ve got the team trainer for the Giants telling the GM to investigate whether or not some crook was handing out steroids like Wohlers Candy and the GM does nothing. The players should be held most accountable here, however, we cannot overlook that the owners and in some cases, even the general managers knew what was going on and yet because butts were in the seats and money was pouring in, they did nothing. So lets not only ridicule the players, because the whole league reeks to high Heaven.
