David Segui Admits to Steroid Use; A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes

Wooo, steroids! It's almost like nothing else is going on in baseball ... oh, right:

When Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drug use is released, likely later this week, at least one former Oriole fully expects to be mentioned prominently.

Retired first baseman David Segui said today he has experimented with anabolic steroids, bought shipments from his friend, former New York Mets clubhouse attendant and admitted drug distributor Kirk Radomski, and reiterated he used human growth hormone with a legal prescription from a Florida doctor.

But Segui told The Sun that he declined to talk to former Sen. George Mitchell because he didn't want to betray the trust of other ballplayers or be caught in a game of speculation about what former teammates or opponents did or didn't do. He also didn't want people wondering what information might have came from him.

In the procession of average baseball players wrapped up in accusations of steroid use, is David Segui the best? He's an obvious notch or ten below Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and the like, but he's no marginal AAA player, either. He had a long professional career with plus-league-average numbers. There's an obvious motive for Segui, as there is for other players ... but maybe his seems less honest, less visceral. If you took steroids for 10 years to put up a 110 OPS+, was it really worth it? What's the effing point?