Steroids, Red Sox Nation plaguing baseball's return

Two clouds -- one chemical, one unnatural -- hang over baseball asthis season begins. Of course, I speak of anabolic steroids and RedSox Nation. Now, you can legislate against performance-enhancing substances, but you can't legislate against obnoxious NewEngland fans (unless some type of standardized birth control isintroduced to the greater Boston metropolitan area).

Here is the steroid situation, up to the minute:

Jason Giambi is the face of steroids but will not say the S-word.

Mark McGwire will not say anything, including the S-word, if itinvolves discussing the past.

Sammy Sosa will not say the S-word in English but gladly will tellyou, …