ESPN Radio personality admits to using steroids!

And for some lame reason it's a big deal!

Mike Golic, co-host of ESPNRadio's "Mike & Mike in the Morning," apparently admitted to using steroids while he was in the NFL.

Golic (not to be confused with his brother Bob, aka Mike Rogers from "Saved By the Bell: The College Years) glazed over the question and the show went on, but as angry bloggers tend, someone picked up on the fact that ESPN deleted a call about the incident from its podcast, implying that The Worldwide Leader thought it was a big deal.

I'm not so sure. While Awful Announcing here is a little overzealous in its attempt to indict ESPN for this, I can see that side of things. Why not make this public? Who even cares? He argues that if ESPN makes such a big deal of Barry Bonds, then why not of this?

I'd respond to that by saying it's a completely different situation. It is ESPN's job to pretend that sports records matter; therefore, Barry Bonds using steroids was a big deal to them. This guy is their employee, and may or may not have used steroids 20 years ago.

However, Deadspin brings up a good point, saying “Seriously, Golic: We don't mind if you did steroids. It's really not a big deal. . . But seriously now: It happened. We heard it."

Greg brought up a good point when he and I were chatting about this, because I was kind of confounded by why ESPN is trying to keep this so hush-hush. If you care that much, fire him; if not, let it go. Greg mentioned that this could be a good thing for them, as Golic could bring up why he took steroids (he said it was for an injury, which is a perfectly legitimate reason), and open a discourse about it instead of continuing with the "Drugs are bad, mmmm-kay?" discussion that solves nothing and will perpetuate illicit drug use unless we actually do something about it.

This doesn't really pose a problem for Golic's stint on the radio at ESPN; however, it could throw a thorn in the side of the diet food he peddles along with a bunch of other former NFL players.