Baseball Players

[GTO Man]

I see A-Rod admitted he lied when asked about using steroids. None of the players have any credibility. I lost interest in Baseball many years ago, it is a joke.

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[moparkid25]

Baseball is my favorite sport to play. But why start investigating all these high-profile plyers now? ALL sports atheletes have used some enhancement at some point to better there game, whether its ‘riods or protein.

Its been going on for years. I don’t condone it, but unfortunately it is what it is.

Jose Canseco is the Benedict Arnold of the MLB. I’m suprised no one’s taken a shot at him yet.

[jonmandude]

My problems with all of this are many.

Why dig up dirt?

How could any of this possibly help the game of baseball, the players, the fans, or the american public?

Why fault the players for trying to improve their ability to make a pant-load of money?

There is not one person that can tell me honestly that they wouldn’t do this. If someone told you that you could take something that could make you stronger, faster, and heal more quickly, plus take your income into the stratusphere, Wouldn’t you do it? If taking a suppliment (or even steroid) could offer the difference between a base salary or a multi-million dollar contract wouldn’t you do it? Can you honestly say that if you had a chance to make $250M you wouldn’t take anything? Please. Would you honestly care about the HOF, public opinion, the bad press, or anything else while your counting your millions? Let’s not forget that A-Rod was barely in his 20’s.

Also, who didn’t enjoy the Sosa/McGwire home run race a few years back? Who didn’t watch Bonds go for the record? Who didn’t enjoy the Rocket when he was pitching his best? Or the Cansenco/McGwire “Bash Brothers”? Every baseball fan loved it all. It was entertaining. And after all, isn’t that what sports are supposed be? Entertainment? Truth is the past decade plus has been the best ever for baseball.

If we don’t want this stuff to happen remove the names and numbers from jerseys and pay everybody equally. They would each be a part of a team not an individual star. But that wouldn’t work because we all want our stars. Bad always comes with the good. When will we understand and accept it?

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