Reminiscing About Baseball's Steroid Era

Dan, I wonder when they started doing drug tests? Like when did they first start drug testing employees? I think 80's. I don't think they did it in the 70's. You know. I don't think so. No, they probably didn't have drug tests back then. Yeah. You know? Back then I bet Coke was real Coke. You got Coke? I bet it was clean. Yeah. They probably didn't even know it. Nah, you can't fucking. You can't touch it. What does it say here? President Ronald Reagan. The worst workplace drug testing started off after President Ronald Reagan required it for federal employees in 1986. And it peaked during the drug war of the 1990's. Fucking Reagan. 86? Yeah. You probably saw it. Darrell Strawberry, Doc Gooden, he's like enough of this shit. That was the first steroids of sports was the Coke of sports because they all did it. Right. Well, I bet. Yeah, baseball players apparently, they all like to do amphetamines. Yeah, that was no future. Yeah. Well, baseball players, that's probably one of the most performance enhanced sports. Yeah. With all the fucking steroids and apparently they all like ADHD medication. Yeah. Something about it makes you focus. And what it does is too, you play through injury. You don't feel the injury. So you have a little tear. So guys that were at the plate, if they had a little tear in their elbow or shoulder, didn't. Wow. It didn't matter. And their hand-eye coordination was, that's why Barry Bonds. Barry Bonds was so, Barry Bonds was the Hall of Famer before he did it. Then he saw everybody doing it and then he did it again. I was sitting courtside Nick. I got hammered at the Nick. I got, I'm good friends. Pete Davidson is a good friend of mine and he was at SNL and he goes, dude, come down. We got to take, and I'm a diehard Knicks, diehard Knicks because I'm a Yankees Giants. But I've won with them. My problem child is the Knicks and I got my son into it and shit and we go down and I'm sitting next to this guy and he's got his hair slicked back and everybody's coming up to him and he's got some beard. I'm looking at this guy and I'm drinking vodka. They just pour vodka and I'm fucking hammered, courtside. And this guy, I know this guy is so, at half time they take you back to everybody's drinking and eating. So finally they're like, yeah, the guy you're sitting next to is the Mets, the new manager of the Mets, Mickey Calloway. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. That's who he is. So we just start talking. We're shooting the shit and everything. And I go, all right, I'm hammered now. So now I like all of the what you shouldn't do. I'm doing. Yeah, I go, can I ask you a question? He goes, please, please. The nice guy, the best baseball he was up before he was a Mets manager. He was a pitching coach for the Indians and now the Guardians, which is fucking awful name. But he said, I go, who's the best baseball player you've ever seen live in all of the years you've been in baseball? And he just leaves back and he goes, oh, and then he just goes, oh, Barry Bonds. He goes, nobody in history made a pitcher pay for a mistake more. He goes, if a pitcher made one fucking mistake by an inch over. So imagine that guy on Royds. And he was. Imagine. Yeah, he was. But he was that guy. He was that guy before. And then he was on it. So now there's Barry Bonds, monster Barry Bonds. No injuries. No, you know, nothing's going to stop him. Hand eye coordination better. More power. That guy. Yeah. I mean, how many they all did it, right? Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa. They were all on the sauce. You could kind of look at the ones that did a certain way because they were square. I was in a fucking elevator with Gary Sheffield. I was like, he was like a book dresser. He was like a funk. And he was just just there. You could tell that these guys were just different. I met Ken Seiko in 1986. I was a fitness trainer at the Boston Athletic Club. I'd like teach people how to lift weights and shit. And Jose Canseco came in and like the peak of his popularity, he was a fucking giant. He was so big. I couldn't believe how big he was. Like I knew he was, you know, you see him on TV. He's an athlete, but you see him in real life. He's like 260 pounds. He was fucking huge. Yeah, gigantic. Actually, I don't know if Sheffield did it, but he looked like that. I don't know if, who got, who was the big, oh, then the guys that denied it in front of Congress. Oh, what happens with them? Do they go to jail for that? You know, it was funny. Everybody that admitted it was, it was like, okay. But the guys that were like, remember Rafael Palmero? He goes, he fucking like pointed at the guy. He goes, I never, never. And like he did. The problem with that is if you lie about something like that so emphatically, no one's ever going to believe you again. Like if you get in an argument with your wife, I was with Tommy. We went to the fucking game. I drove straight home. I got stuck in traffic. That's the point. I get him. Yeah, he looks like he's on Roy's right there. That's probably why he's pointing. Oh, there's a fucking, there's a bobblehead doll of him pointing. And what? I've never used steroids. Period. Mark McGuire did this one. He just goes, they go, Mark, did you do, you know, did you use steroids in this? And he just goes, I'm not here to talk about, you know, the past. I'm here to talk about the future. And that was his way of just being like, let's, let's clean the game up. Nice. Yeah. After I've made my money, let's clean the game up. Let's bring everybody's home runs down to a normal manageable level. Yeah. Fuck that. My wife knows it online, dude. She's, my wife and I have been together fucking 20, almost 20 years and married almost 15. And when she has me dead to rights, she just looks and we both know. Don't do steroids in front of her then. No. Or don't lie about it. No. Those guys, like, if you think about it, they made baseball more interesting, though. Like, it's so stupid that they busted them for that. They should have been, so shut the fuck up, everybody shut the fuck up. Everybody shut the fuck up. Brought baseball back. But why did they make a big deal out of it? Who gives a shit if they're doing steroids? I just think when it goes from 40 home runs is a good season to 90. It's like... People getting better. Cars getting faster. Now a cell phone. Why did it go to Congress, though? It's pretty weird. It went all the way to the congressional hearings. I didn't think so. It shouldn't go to the... Because baseball's our national game. That's why. Because, like, if that happened with, like, pick a sport, darts, you think anybody give a fuck? Darts players are doing roids, you know? Bring them to Congress. Fucking bocce ball players. Yeah. Why is it that it's got to be that baseball's a national sport? I don't think they would have done that with anything else. They definitely would have done it with football. Because they know everybody's juiced up on football.