Harold Reynolds, Tom Veducci and Bob Costas whine about the steroid era. Apparently only the great hitter used steroids. Too bad they don't realize that people don't care what they have to say anymore. Also, Harold was complaining how it changed the type of players GMs looked for and they no longer wanted slappy speed guys. In other words, Harold Reynolds sucked but would prefer to blame steroids for the end of his career.
Baseball is a game of the long season, of relentless and gradual averaging-out. Irrelevance—since the reference point of most individual games is remote and statistical—always threatens its interest, which can be maintained not by the occasional heroics that sportswriters feed upon but by players who always care; who care, that is to say, about themselves and their art. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, he is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
