Dan Calabrese

Just tossing this out there if anyone wants to comment.

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington tested positive for cocaine during a random drug test in 2009, a fact that was made public within the past couple of days. It’s also reported that Washington has been subjected to more stringent, regular testing as a result, and has passed every test since. That’s good.

First time user at 57?

But what of his claim that this occurred in a moment of weakness, and that, at 57, he used cocaine for the first and only time in his life?

Do you believe this? How many people use cocaine for the very first time in their lives when they’re already in their 50s?

It seems to me that often when someone is caught doing something one time, they will cop to the one time because they have no choice, but will insist, however implausibly, that this was the one and only time they committed the egregious act.

When Washington was a player, the cocaine scandal in baseball was in full bloom. He is asking us to believe he never touched it then, but inexplicably, in a “moment of weakness” became a first-time blow-snorter at the age of 57.

Just wondering how many people believe that. Do you?

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