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Do You Really Care if Athletes Use Performance Enhancers?

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But;
Don't we go to baseball parks to see guys like Bonds hit home runs? Go to basketball games to see guys dunk from half court? Go to football games to see 250lb LBers run as fast as 200lb running backs?
 
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Taosman;1215550; said:
It seems every sport has been infected with the use of performance enhancing drugs. Does it really matter to you? Is it inevitable?
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yes it matters, but who is to say without testing in all sports. I work at a gym and steroids is rampid. High school students take roids, wieghtlifters, some of them take roids. Look at how these roids users think, maybe this will help me make money to be the best on the field of play or a scholarship to a young kid.
Sign Barry Bonds so taos can go to a ball park near you so Barry can hit the leather off a baseball. This is a huge dicussion taos and I don't need no poli forum:biggrin:
 
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Do You Really Care if Athletes Use Performance Enhancers?

Nope.

I'm especially amused by the indignation some show when it comes to baseball. Teams move fences to accommodate their players, the league can change the compression of the ball - and has over the years - to greatly change the game, the mound has been raised and lowered, the list goes on.

If there was actually consistency in baseball, then fine, no drugs. But the history of the game is anything but consistent. Hell, Gaylord Perry wrote a book about how he cheated during his career and he's in the Hall of Fame.
 
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Jake;1215650; said:
... Gaylord Perry wrote a book about how he cheated during his career and he's in the Hall of Fame.
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Good point. It seems to me that there is, in the public's view, "cheating (wink wink)" -- like Gaylord Perry engaged in -- and CHEATING -- like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Roger Clemens (allegedly) engaged in.

Let's try to get a sense of perspective here. Baseball has historically been a very different game from one generation to the next. This doesn't excuse cheating, in whatever form, but ballplayers have cheated for as long as ball games have been played.
 
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You know all along I have said I am against it in sports. I just have always also said that there is no way they are going to stop it...It's ruined a nice sized portion of competitive sports...A guy can't look amazing,and people give him credit without their own assumption he's on steroids. To those people it really sucks for them..JMO

Any freak athlete anymore is questioned when he performs a great feat...The usage is always going to be there so even if they are on something..They still can do it better then I can sitting on my couch..

There's a new film out called "Bigger,stronger,faster" i'm going to watch it tonight..It is all about this type of thing. I'll let you guys know how it is or isn't.
 
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