Jose Conseco, Drug use and the people who know less

I just watched the A&E special on this guy and I was very impressed with a few things and not so impressed with others. (First let me say I am not a baseball fan, and hardly watch the sport.) While Jose Conseco does seem sincere on the Steroid use, and I do believe everything he has to say about who was using and who wasn’t. I do not think of this guy as a snake or a snitch. I wasn’t so impressed with the fact that he got caught at the border of Mexico with some steroid that was supposedly used to reverse some of the effects of long term use? Maybe it is true, but if it is, surely there would be a better way to obtain this drug? He was after all seeing Dr’s to help get off and re-align his life.

All he is just telling you that the people that most idolize are using performance enhancing drugs. (I wonder how big a deal it would have been if all the players were using cocaine pre game to enhance their play?) I wonder what most would you say then?

I empathize with this guy because he was ostracized from his sport because he was to my knowledge the first to be “Caught”. (I just ordered the book so I haven’t read it yet?) But it is interesting how all the other players named are suddenly quiet? If I am wrong and these other players come out and have written books on the subject please let me know. But as far as I am concerned it is too bad that he was treated this way. But then again this is the American way! We find out who has a problem, and everyone except the person who had the problem is suddenly an expert on the problem!

I was recently at a meeting that had nothing to do with drugs, but it was filled with people who are in position to make decisions on people who use what they called illegal drugs. It was ironic that not one person there had ever “tried” any of these drugs, and it was even more shocking how little they knew about any of the drugs that they talked about?

So I am sure that with all of the people in baseball, that know more about these drugs then the actual people who used them. Just like the meeting I was at where all of these police and firemen and members of the political community knew more about the use of drugs then someone who has used them. I will note that during this conversation I had to correct these people on their use of terms on the drugs they were using.

My point being, if you want someone who is going to be a dietician for a group of people, you do not hire a fat doughnut eating couch potato, you hire someone who is living, or at least has lived a healthy life style for quite a while right? So if you want to learn more about illegal drugs in sports, or illegal drugs in any arena, you hire someone who has lived the problem, not someone who has just read a book on them!

I started this on Jose Conseco, and went on with the idea of how he was treated and his current situation. I wish to say to Jose, Good luck and you seem to be an interesting person, and if MLB had any brains they would have kept you on as an advisor rather then just tossing you aside like we have the tendency to do in America in so many areas.