Sanchez on Roids
When he's not getting thrown threw a clubhouse wall by Lenny Harris or crying in the dugout, apparently former Brewer Alex Sanchez is juicing. On Sunday it was announced that Sanchez was the first person suspended for violating MLB's Drug Testing Policy.

The fact that he did get caught also reiterates the fact that he is "one of the stupidest people alive" as many people in the Brewers organization had said during his brief stint as the Crew's center fielder.

If Sanchez took steroids, just exactly was he trying to accomplish? He has no chance of being a power hitter (maybe he was influenced by seeing Barry Bonds' transformation from a stick into a beast). Perhaps Sanchez wanted to get a little extra muscle to get some more velocity on the grounders he hits or a little more air under the flares he sends just over the inflieder's heads.


Sanchez denies taking steroids, and on the surface his taking performance enhancing drugs really doesn't seem to make sense. Sanchez has four homeruns in 1,351 career at bats, so obviously he's not a power-hitter and really has no hope of ever being so. Could he have been falsely identified?

First of all, one of the many problem's with the MLB drug testing policy is that it doesn't identify what the player has tested positive for. Nobody is really sure what is tested for, so could Sanchez even test positive for something that is over-the-counter?

How long has Sanchez been juicing (allegedly)? He did hit .322 last year for Detroit. Could it be that taking steroids turned him from a .290 hitter to a .322 hitter? I know he only had 300 some at-bats, but isn't that a possibility? Also, could a slap-hitter like Sanchez symbolize how bad the steroid problem in MLB is? I mean, if a 5'9'' 150lbs banjo-hitter is juicing, could the problem run deeper than we originally thought? If punters in the NFL are juicing and slap hitters in MLB are juicing, what does that say about the steroid problem in professional sports as a whole? I joked that it's only going to be a matter of time before tennis players, golfers and bowlers are accused of juicing, now that might not be too far off the radar.