Terrific post at OBM on steroids and really dumb columns written by famous baseball writers.

One thing I've never understood about most major sports writers is you have the potential to generate more interest in what you write if you're iconoclastic and go against the CW. Yet so few major sportswriters want to tackle the steroids controversy in an interesting way. There's a huge missed opportunity here (hats off to Reason magazine for running good pieces on this subject).

UPDATE: Apparently Dear Leader Bud Selig is thinking of invoking the Maoist-sounding "best interests of the game" clause to crack down harder on steroids (hat tip: HBT). That's fine, so far as it goes. The players are the ones who've buttered this whole thing. But when will Bud invoke the clause to get rid of himself, something that would truly be in the "best interests of the game"?

MORE UPDATES: Eric at Off-Wing Opinion draws my attention to the Miami Herald's Dan le Batard who has helped sports fans think more clearly about the steroids issues. Here's a good example. He interviews the bioethicist Norm Fost. In an earlier life when I was a TV producer I put together a show on stem cell research and Fost was a guest. He's a brilliant guy, knows the science and has thought about bioethical issues longer than anyone who isn't named Leon Kass.