Nobody is saying that Wehling, the new star doctor of the moment in sports, is Galea, or will ever look at any kind of legal trouble. Maybe what Wehling is doing with blood really is better than what everybody else is doing, he is one of those guys out of science and medicine who really is a step or two ahead of the field.
But sometimes you don’t have to be either a doctor or a scientist to know that when things look too good to be true, they usually are.
He repeatedly refers to the blood-spinning procedure A-Rod got as “a quick fix” and the whole column drips with dubiousness that is only present because A-Rod is involved and he’s a big lightning rod for this stuff, not because there’s a single reason to believe that the doctor or the procedure in question is suspect legally or ethically.
I’m struck by the notion that if Lupica were writing 90 years ago he’d be putting up columns going after Alexander Felming:
Not sure which 1920s ballplayer would be the whipping boy Alex Rodriguez is because of it, but I’m going with ... Babe Herman of the Brooklyn Robins. His name -- there has to be some sort of “little Babe” or “FauxBabe” construction the tabloids would go in for -- and the city he played in would be way too ripe for a guy like Lupica to riff on all the time.