Steroids In Sports

Fact: Baseball is being scrutinized for letting (encouraging???) its players use HGH and other PED's. Football embraces them.

There are 90 names on the Mitchell Report. Everyone (except Roger) says they "took it once, a few years ago when they were injured to help recover quicker". Um, okay... So where was the big news about all those HGH production companies going out of business? The only stories I've heard about these operations at all were the one or two coming out of Orlando that were shut down when all the employees were carted off to jail. There is absolutely.no.way. that all those drugs went to just 90 people 1 or 2 times.

How many times have you tried something that would help you at your job once or twice, realize it works, know that there are no regulations (at the time you tried this) or hurtful ramifications, basically no way of getting caught and no punishment if you do...and only did it once or twice? Basically, if you have a job, someone has a product that makes your job easier/better/faster/quicker and there are no repercussions from doing it, you use this product repeatedly. No question. I just want someone to come out and be like "Yeah, I used to shoot up in the bus on the way to the park. My old lady don't let me shoot up 'round the house, so I get my junk from downtown and got'sta ride the bus into the stadium. "

Athletes, like most D-Blogger's, have decided they are above the law and will act accordingly.

Why do we not care more if one of them is hopped up on drugs or steroids when we watch them? In my group of friends, even though most of them have strong, to unhealthy appetites for a particular season or a series of sporting events. I haven't really seen or heard anyone opine on the subject. I can verify with all certainty that they all have opined in the past. Sometimes we agree (Bobby Bowdin's douchability) or disagree (Who has a crappier QB situation: KC, Tampa Bay, or Chicago? Still undecided) but either way, we will talk about it. Why doesn't something that plagues the center of professional sports have such an apethetic reaction from fans. This is getting less talk time that if a presidential debate was being held at a community college campus, in a community college classroom, with the fourteen of thirty-five students attending class that day providing the questions. You know three of them are going to be "Is this going to be on the test?".

Don't we watch our sports figures to show us something superhuman that we can't do ourselves? Don't we just want these people to dance for us? Wouldn't you want to see them do that in the most human condition possible? I have given my opinion time to grow, and it has finally matured enough where I can definitively state that I do not think any steroids or PED's should be allowed in any sport.

More importantly, why do we let some of these morally reprehensible people have second chances? I'd like to live in a world where second chances for athletes are are myth. Being physically gifted and having a sport that's designed to highlight some of those physical traits while providing an overly excessive salary isn't a right. It is a privilege. It should be taken away at the first sign of trouble. And yes, this is an area where I would like to see the owner's embrace collusion. Kick out all the scumbags. So what if Oakland loses their NFL team?