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Last night at a downtown bar, we eavesdropped on a heated debate about the Bonds' indictment. The all-male group of self-proclaimed Bonds-haters argued loudly about whether or not sports should simply start allowing athletes to get as chemically enhanced as they wanna be, health risks be damned.
The main pro-roids (pro-drug?) point was this: seeing as how athletes already push themselves to physical extremes, shouldn't synthetic enhancers also count? Since it also deals with the body? See who's a lightweight, see who's not? That, ultimately, juiced up athletes is the future of sports, so...why not give in?
Any sports fans care to chime in and educate us non-sport followers?
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i dont understand why fans put up with the mlb union refusing urine tests. that basically tells me every single baseball player is on the juice. fuck em all!
Maybe we should have a separate, lesser league with sanctioned, somewhat regulated enhancers. It would have more of a circus-freak/carnie type feel - guys with heads the size of pumpkins, testicles the size of peas, and maybe a super woman or two. The appeal would certainly be WWF-ian/cage fighting-like. But the real question is: would this appeal to Bay Area residents, or more of a Vegas/mainstream America circuit? Certainly there will always be demand for the "authentic".
The line between 'okay' and 'not okay' performance enhancers is finer than most folks probably realize, it's pretty much arbitrary, and it's only going to get more blurred as drug-making technology improves.
Can't speak for all sports fans, but I think most pro athletes *are* on the same playing field and that it's a performance-enhanced field. Personally I tune in for the competition and to be entertained, not because I think they're Greek gods who are supposed to uphold some moral example for me to follow.
I think that it all depends on the drug.
We wouldn't want some sports stud looking and acting like living skeleton Amy Winehouse. Of course, god only knows what she's on. She's probably shooting-up draino at this point.
But a shot of triple distilled testosterone with HGH every day should cause the players a good rage.
They'll get to play with their balls much more agressively.
I don't think Greek gods had any kind of moral standard that anyone was supposed to follow. But kids do look up to athletes, for better or worse, and it would help the sport for them to recognize that and set a better example.
Bad choice of words, but you know what I meant. I just don't think you can get "athletes" to collectively start acting better, since they never really have. All that's changed in recent years is the way the media covers them.
I'm shocked that it isn't the common view that professional athletes are the most upstanding individuals with unquestionable integrity. um... yeah...