At the game today with my dad, we were sitting in front of the press box and I pointed out TH. I told my dad about emailing him regarding his offseason article in which he wrote Angel Salome was suspended for steroid use - not generic PEDs or a banned substance, he wrote steroids.
Since there had been a bit of a debate from "Coach" and a few others, I thought I'd follow up, as other source had confirmed the actual substance. So, I asked him if it was steroids and he replied something to the extent, well everyone pretty much knows it was steroids but you never get confirmation on these things. (That's a paraphrase from memory, hence the absence of quotation marks.)
Regardless of what substance it was, I personally thought it was irresponsible - and perhaps inaccurate - to print such a thing without, well, "facts" to back you up, podunk or not.
Edit:My original message to TH, in part:
"I hope all is well.
I noticed that you wrote Angel Salome was suspended for steriods in your article from jsonline.com, posted 11/24, which I assume ran in the 11/25 print edition. I am following up to verify that the performance enhancing substance was indeed steroids, as it has not been previously verified, I believe. "
here is Tom's response, from my email...
"I was told the substance was some sort of steroid but you can't ever get verification of such things because all of that info is confidential. Officially, it was a "performance enhancing" substance."
I can't find an copy of the November 25th article (posted 11/24/07), but I don't really think that's necessary for this case.
