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There is no bigger sham in sports than the concept of selling family fun at the old ballpark. How can any honest commissioner or franchise owner continue to target moms, dads and kids when drugs are such a prevalent, insidious part of the game? The integrity of baseball -- an oxymoron, I know -- has been gutted for two decades by steroids and, through all the deceit, we momentarily ignored that cocaine and other recreational drugs scandalized the sport in the 1980s.Now, in the name of Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington, we have evidence that cocaine may remain closer to the game than we've recently assumed. Because managers are among the vast majority of ballclub employees subjected to drug screening, Washington tested positive for cocaine during a random urine sampling last July. Though he claims it was the first and only time he used the stuff, sorry, I don't believe that a 57-year-old man suddenly seeks a street drug to soothe what he calls personal issues and professional stress. He has passed every subsequent test and, for now, deserves, a day-to-day opportunity to overcome his demons and keep his job.
But clearly, this development is troubling in how it underscores a double standard. Major-league players, unlike major-league managers and even major-league clubhouse attendants, are not randomly tested for recreational drugs. Which means we have no better idea how many players are using cocaine than we know how many players are using human growth hormone.
Get your tickets now, kids.
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