Baseball DIY

Over at the Washington Post, George Robinson reviews several of the latest sports books including The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems by Will Carroll. I love how this is the "real story", because, you know, it's all been fiction until now.

Please.

Robinson isn't too thrilled with Carroll's work but does manage to give it a backhanded compliment of sorts:

The Juice is a sloppy, messy book whose disparate chapters read more like contributions to a festschrift than parts of a unified work. Nor is it clear who the book's intended readers are. But this book offers a lot of hard facts and some necessary myth-busting. For all its many faults, The Juice is a useful volume, if only as a reminder that, as Will Carroll states bluntly in its conclusion, "The simple joy of the game escapes us from time to time." ·

I'm not sure if he wants us to read the book or not but I know how I feel about it. I'm reading books on war and gardening right now. I'm sure that the steriod scandal will be just fine without me.