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RED JUICE AND RICE
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Baseball players from all over have been congregating in a courtroom in
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Pittsburgh for the last few weeks to testify about drug use in major league
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baseball.
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The trial, which has provided much needed grist for Howard Cosell's daily
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radio commentaries, has also revealed some interesting recipes for athletes' pre
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and post-game cocktails.
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Not a few of these recipes have enough power to make cocaine seem about as
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innocuous as salt. For instance, there is 'red juice,' which is a powerful
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upper that won't let the user come down. How do you come down off of red juice?
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Take a downer, of course!
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(Then there's Pete Rose's recipe, "High on Life," but nobody's trying to find
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out if it comes in liquid or capsule form.)
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Players who have testified in return for immunity from prosecution have been
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naming names -- some of them among the game's most revered. It makes you wonder
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who might be implicated next.
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Here's a roundup of what we have learned in recent testimony:
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* Ewing Kaufman, owner of the K.C. Royals and giant drug manufacturing firm
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Marion Laboratories, has not included freebies with any of his players' lifetime
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contracts.
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* The number of players who have testified under immunity is not larger than
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the number of players in the major leagues. * High salaries are not
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specifically linked with high drug usage.
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* Players who live in California are no more prone to drug use than players
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who live elsewhere.
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* There is still no drug that will enhance performance better than a corked
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bat or a greaseball.
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* There has been only one documented instance of a player using drugs to get
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from one city to another instead of flying on the team plane.
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* Most players don't lock their lockers.
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* Nicotine is the most popular mood altering substance in use in the major
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leagues.
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* The trial wouldn't have been in Pittsburg if the Pirates had had a better
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team this year.
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