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Baseball Is About Drugs!

Baseball Is About Drugs!

So the Mitchell report comes in saying that there are many big names in Baseball using drugs - sports enhancing drugs that is... anyone surprised? Seems to me like in this competitive sports world it is the case of who is caught and who is not? If you get paid more to hit a home run more than a double wouldn't you be tempted to make sure you do it? The answer is "yes" for MLB stars who struggle to make it big each time they step to the plate. My other position - do fans even care if they are injecting? I doubt, they just want to see something incredible from the stands. What are your thoughts?

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I read the report and have a couple of observations:

I was interested in who wasn't really nailed as having done Steroids...
Sammy Sosa (does this mean he was really clean?)
Mark McGwire (his name is mentioned, but there is nothing concrete...they knew about the andro...he never hid that and it was not on the illegal list)
Albert Pujols (always been suspected...but might all be genuine)
Brady Anderson (bulked up and had one monster year...never heard from again)
Luis Gonzales (guy bulked up so much...he had trouble swinging the bat fast enough...soon after left the league)
Randy Johnson (he is now the most dominant, clean, pitcher of the last decade plus?)
Ivan Rodriguez (nice...always liked the guy)

I am not sure the exact quote, but it was near the beginning of the report: "the other guy is on 'roids and he's taking my job!" Mind you...most of them are million dollar a year paying jobs! I have no doubt that if I were in the same situation...my hat and shoe size would have grown about 2 sizes just like Barry Bonds did when he was 33.

Honestly, the report got one thing right...they all share the blame. The players for doing it and the management for allowing it to happen, as they were pretty nearly willing participants. I saw several quotes in there from managers that knew their players were juicing and that is compliance! Well...we will all enjoy telling our children of the golden "steroid era" of baseball!

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Weren't these regulations only recently put in place, something like 2003? Maybe the way they go about enforcing is not handled well. Drug testing should be done way before a guy breaks a record or gets his name in the Hall of Fame. Seems silly to now look for clarity among your sportsmen after the fact.

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Oh there was a no-drugs/steroids policy for a long time. The thing that was missing was testing. The players union naturally blocked this and the management (watching homerun races and attendance rising) really wasn't interested in pushing it. Additionally, the list of things banned did not include a lot of psuedo steroids.

In my opinion, if management wants to complain about players on roids then they need to admit that they were enablers in the whole thing by turning a blind eye to the issue and the players who juiced need to step forward.

Unfortunately, I can think of no other thing than to actually put that asterik by the records of these guys...steroids work. If any of them go into the HOF, then there will need to be a Steroid Era wing to explain it in about 50yrs.

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Gloves off at US baseball hearing

There are angry exchanges as US baseball star Roger Clemens is grilled by Congress over doping claims.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...cas/7243998.stm

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I think they need to ban all types of steroid to include the pseudo ones. All sports need to be drug free. Many kids look up to the professional players and if their favorite player is juicing up then they see it as something they should do to be like their idol. Having teen boys in sports I hear about other students who are juicing up because this player or that player is doing in this sport. It does not matter the sport from a parents point of view because you do not want you child to be on the juice just to be able to play beyond college.

I think more awareness to the masses is needed to get the kids in junior high and high school off and away from steroid use. This should help all the major sports become drug free too as the older juiced players leave and the newer non juiced players take their place.

As a fan I would much rather watch a honest clean game than a team that does all it can to include juicing their players just so they have a better chance of winning. The owners of the sports teams and the players need to clean their acts up. But then again this is just my opinion.

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Clemens looked really bad during this hearing. I step better than McGwire did a few years ago, but not much. McNamee was right about Pettite and Knablauch...so why lie about Clemens. Roger really needed to just come forward a while ago and admit to what he had done. Now it looks like he has likely lied under oath and has enough people that could testify against him...NOT GOOD and NOT SMART for a guy that wants into the Hall of Fame. A body language expert had this analysis of Clemens and McNamee's testimony.

https://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3244344

Bonds doesn't even have this much against him!