If you're going to cheat, you'd better cheat well.
Tigers' utility man Neifi Perez has been suspended 25 games for testing positive for a performance enhancing drug.
This news causes me to question not only Perez's (very limited) playing ability, but also his apparent lack of a brain.
If you're going to juice up and risk getting caught, you better fork over for the good stuff. In this day and age where soft-hitting utility players are in less demand, I can understand Perez's desire to look for an edge.
But if he's going to juice up, I fully expect a .300 average, 10-12 home runs, and about 25 stolen bases by now. Instead, he's hitting a buck-seventy-two with one homer and six RBIs. Weak.
If chemical assistance doesn't help you produce numbers better than that, it's probably time to hang up the cleats.
UPDATE: In all fairness to Perez, it was amphetamines he was caught with, not steroids. Still, as Tyler points out in the comment below, this was not a first offense.
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My guess is that it was amphetamines, which have been used for about 40 years and by multiple Hall of Famers. I was under the impression that the first offense was counseling (Bonds) so he must have been really stupid to get caught twice.
I think that amphetamines are the untold story in baseball this year and can be blamed for a lot of players having simply dreadful seasons (Julio Lugo).
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