If you believe everything you read in the media, you would think all other sports are clean. If they have discovered steroid use among cyclists, you can bet there isn't a clean sport...except maybe golf (though you never know).
Are there people who really believe it is just a "baseball problem", or do they know that baseball is the scapegoat? How have other sports managed to stay out of the discussion? I also think Congress should be more concerned about things other than someone hitting a baseball.
Discuss!
machine3 wrote: How have other sports managed to stay out of the discussion?
the other sports all have testing procedures and have had them for years. while there are always ways around the tests, the other sports have made their best effort to stay clean and baseball didnt. to put it another way, the other sports have all shown a desire to be clean whereas baseball only recently did, and even thats debateable given the weak punishments for cheating. i dont think anyone is saying the other sports are clean, but they are at least making an effort to get/stay clean.
and none of the other sports are the national past time.
machine3 wrote:I also think Congress should be more concerned about things other than someone hitting a baseball. Discuss!
There are millions of posts on this subject of course, but congress is not concerned about the guys playing baseball, they are concerned about the negative side-effects of steroids on players bodies.
machine3 wrote:I also think Congress should be more concerned about things other than someone hitting a baseball. Discuss!
There are millions of posts on this subject of course, but congress is not concerned about the guys playing baseball, they are concerned about the negative side-effects of steroids on players bodies.
That IMO is precisely what makes Congress a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to this situation.
How does the NFL (for the most part) stay out of the controversy? Football players are the most obvious users. I don't care if they have testing in place...they know it's not effective. Testing (like in other sports) will not change MLB much if any...so will the controversy die if they had the same policy as the NFL? Probably not.
machine3 wrote:How does the NFL (for the most part) stay out of the controversy? Football players are the most obvious users. I don't care if they have testing in place...they know it's not effective. Testing (like in other sports) will not change MLB much if any...so will the controversy die if they had the same policy as the NFL? Probably not.
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TexDawg45 wrote:Remember the episode from "playmakers", when he injected another man's piss to hide crack-cocaine abuse?
j/k, I do not care if they use steroids or not.
Agreed. I want my professional athletes on steroids. Bigger, stronger, faster? Absolutely. I want to vicariously live through them.
I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego, but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD at noon. I thought it was an off-day. At 1pm, my girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!"
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