everything we've been told about steroids is wrong! or is it...

I doubt it. I agree that steroids seem to help hitter performance more than pitcher performance. The general theory is that increased muscle mass is more helpful to hitters than pitchers, and I can accept that, although muscle mass certainly helps pitchers as well (despite theories counter to this in the past). The biggest boon steroids offer pitchers, from what I've heard, is improved ability to recover from or avoid injuries, and I think it's no coincidence that injury time for pitchers seems to be WAY up this year. (Could be wrong, but it certainly seems that way.)

Anyway, I just think that steroid-abusing pitchers are getting a free ride here. Anyone notice Billy Koch's performance lately?

A tangential issue: from what I learned in a Nova special, artificially adding a certain gene, usually with the express purpose of increasing the activity of that gene, actually cancels out that gene entirely. Unless Rothenberg is referring to some other technique, he may very well be a quack. Is there a doctorb here who can weigh in? Morbs?

so was the ESPN '98 film any good?

Jeff Tweedy scoring it is NOT a plus in my book...