Hot off the wire courtesy of WFAN’s 20/20 sports report:

A former Mets clubhouse employee is facing significant jail time for supplying illegal steroids and performance enhancing drugs to dozens of MLB players from 1995 on.

Thirty-seven year-old Kirk Radomski could face up to 25 years for distributing steroids and laundering money as part of this BALCO case.

The Mets released this statement via the AP story which came out of San Francisco:

“We were surprised and disappointed to learn of the guilty plea today,” the Mets said in a statement. “The conduct in question is diametrically opposed to the values and standards of the Mets organization and our owners.

“We are and always have been adamantly opposed to the use of performance-enhancing drugs and continue to support Major League Baseball’s efforts to eradicate any such use in our game,” the team said.

The players’ names aren’t known yet but when they are, you can bet it will be yet another bombshell.
This is just another gigantic blow to baseball. The problem I will always have with all this stuff coming out now is that baseball didn’t have a steroid policy during what’s now known as the Juiced Era.

I’ve always been consistent in this area because as many know, after the 1994 strike, baseball needed a campaign to get fans back at the ballpark. They chose the “Chicks Dig The Long Ball” ad campaign which didn’t exactly inspire singles hitters. The home run was what mattered most. It’s sex appeal was greater.

Maybe if they had cared about cheating being associated with their game, it wouldn’t have been as prominent now.

I will always maintain that if baseball had a strict anti-doping policy in place, they wouldn’t be coming under this kind of microscope now.

At this point, it is what it is. Just another black eye for sports.