[sageofages]

It is sad indeed...but frankly, after the strike, I quit watching baseball.

I just want to shout at all of them...didn't anyone pay attention to Lyle Alzado's torturous demise , even if the dr said it could not be so...makes you wonder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Alzado

Alzado is probably most remembered today for being one of the first major U.S. sports figures to admit to abuse of steroids. In the last years of his life, as he battled against the brain tumor that eventually caused his death at the age of 43, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led to his fatal illness, but his physician stated it could not possibly be true. Alzado was using natural growth hormone, harvested from human corpses, as opposed to synthetic growth hormones. Alzado is buried at River View Cemetery in Portland.