Dee Gordon became the latest player to get himself suspended 80 games for taking performance enhancing drugs in baseball. What caused Gordon to use and is it really that big of a deal? Isn’t the playing field level if everyone has access to these substances? Aren’t they just trying to get more money and make baseball a better product when all is said and done? What is so bad about that?
Elsewhere, Bryce Harper also got himself paid by Under Armour in what is reported to be the most lucrative endorsement deal in baseball history and Curt Schilling was chopped off an ESPN 30 for 30 episode thanks to his brainless comments that got him fired from the network.
Crowding the Plate Episode 6: The State of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball
Intro/Outro: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” sung by Edward Meeker and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by The Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club
Break 1: “Cheat” by The Clash and a quote from Major League.
Break 2: “The New Pollution” by Authority Zero with quote from Futurama episode “Fear of a Bot Planet.”
Hosted by Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen, Crowding the Plate is a weekly baseball podcast here on Last Word on Sports. It aims to cover the fun, yet analytical, side of baseball once a week.
Joe Hojnacki writes about soccer for Last Word on Sports and is also co-host of the Crowding the Plate Podcast. An avid Red Sox fan, Joe idolizes Bryce Harper and feels that his fun showmanship is the way to save baseball from becoming overrun by old folks, and from dying out.
Greg Hessen is the resident Tigers fan on Crowding the Plate. As somewhat more of a traditionalist, Greg longs for the days of pitchers hitting in the American League and a landscape that doesn’t include things like bat flips and PEDs tarnishing the greatest of all games.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 24: Dee Gordon #9 of the Miami Marlins runs to third base against the San Francisco Giants during the fifth inning at AT&T Park on April 24, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The Miami Marlins defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-4. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)
