Brody Bonds

Watching Brody's improvement these last couple of weeks has given me a whole new appreciation for the baseball steroid scandal. Here was a dog that was completely unable to stand on her own and now can run up and down the stairs in the house, run after a ball, and go for walks (the ball was thrown by a neighbor kid, which we put a stop to). So, she is doing well for the time being. She will be on the steroid for the next couple of weeks and then we'll see how she does off it. It is not a long term solution because it has negative side-effects. The mailman said the other day that his lab bit his hand when his dog was on steroids. We have not seen any Brody roid-rage yet but are keeping an eye out.
Speaking of steroids, did any general manager in baseball history more underestimate the power of steroids than Tom Grieve did in 1989? He had the all steroid team that may have gotten the Rangers to the World Series if he had left them alone; Sammy Sosa, Pete Incaviglia, Ruben Sierra, Rafeal Palmiero, Long-Juan Gonzales, Dean Palmer, Pudge Rodriguez. Seriously, that's a lot of juiced power. By 1995, this is a lineup that could have gone deep in the playoffs every year even with zero pitching, which is a staple of Ranger's teams. Here's a guy who traded Sosa for Harold Baines and Palmiero for Will Clark! That's 100 juiced HR's a year for 4-5 years.