Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said on an ESPN Radio interview Wednesday he was encouraged to use performance-enhancing drugs near the end of his career.
“At the end of my career, in 2008 when I had gotten hurt, there was a conversation that I was involved in, in which it was brought to my attention that this is a potential path I might want to pursue,” Schilling said in an interview with Colin Cowherd that focused on the use of PEDs in baseball and recent allegations about several star players.
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In his book, Jose Canseco said, the biggest impact steroids had on his career wasn't in building big muscles -- he was a gym rat who worked out constantly and would have become strong anyway -- but instead enabled him to recover rapidly from injury and earn the megabucks the owners were paying him. Canseco said, he couldn't have had a career if not for steroids, because he was so injury-prone; steroids enabled him to recover rapidly. Isn't that a GOOD thing? He also said, IF one uses steroids properly, in an informed way, and under a doctor's supervision, steroids are nothing but a BLESSING. If steroids could have put Schilling back on the field, performing again at a major-league level, why would that have been a BAD thing? Very strange -- this obsession that America has with steroids.
Schilling has turned into the crazy ex-girlfriend in Fatal Attraction. Hope Henry et al keep a close eye on their pet bunny!