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Former Diamondbacks pitcher Jason Grimsley admitted using amphetamines, federal authorities said in June after they raided his home. So if other players also did use the pick-me-ups, imagine how tired they're feeling right now, MSNBC.com contributor Bob Cook writes.

Lee qualified his statements by saying he rarely used greenies. First, because they made you feel stronger than you really were, which would be a problem for control pitcher like Lee. Second, “you never know when it might rain. … That’s when you see entire teams of players chattering away at each other and doing six hours of Nautilus.”

Like how, in the business world, the assistant manager who can’t seem to shut up and seems a little too excitable isn’t naturally enthusiastic — it’s the four frappucinos per day he’s gulping.

In fact, it might be that our own culture of stimulant use keeps us from seeing who’s amped and who isn’t. Or, perhaps it’s not that we don’t see it, it’s that we don’t really care. In the nonsports world, you don’t find up-and-coming executives trying to get ahead by going to the office washroom with a fellow up-and-comer and asking the fellow employee to please shoot him or her in the rear with stanolozol. But you will see them walk out for a mid-afternoon jolt of joe, or an after-work cocktail of vodka and Red Bull.

Speaking of Red Bull, so heavily caffeinated it’s banned in France, we have no compunction about the so-called “energy drink” sponsoring race cars or even sticking its name on a soccer team. But what do you think would be the reaction to a certain laboratory buying a team and calling it the New York Balcos?

We don’t have to open our eyes to athletes’ use of stimulants. Many fans’ eyes have been dilated enough to be wide open, too. Perhaps the clearest signal athletes are staying away from the hard, banned stuff is not seeing them be less attentive at play. The clearest signal would be seeing them gumming up the lines at Starbucks with the rest of us.

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