Ban those you can prove. I'm sure the others will feel bad enough (LOL yeah right)

This drug and sports episode reminds me of a Saturday Night Live sketch about the "drugs allowed olympics". There was a weight lifter. The weight was so heavy that when the guy tried to lift it his arms got off his body. There was lots of blood and everything... I guess that the athletes did'nt really get the message at that time.

I guess this is another twisted side of our new society. What counts is the surface. The medals, honors, money made by businesses... Not the way those feats are accomplished (athletes on drugs, sweat shops...)

I remember reading some years ago in a major local newspaper that as a sales rep it was more important to be pretty than knowledgeable.

Where will all this nonsense lead us?

I'm sure there will be a point where people will wake up and realize that the values are screwed up. And that it is time to make the necessary corrections.

But I'm wondering what will have to happen to provoke the changes.



>What about those drugs used by players in the past before testing even started? It has been contended that drugs of some form or another have been used by sport legends all along...
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>>>>>Berry Bonds - The finest baseball player produced by chemistry!
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>>>>Tom,
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>>>>I agree. Barry Bonds is just another business man. The problem is that the "business" is entertainment. Fans love the home run. In fact, my first baseball hero was Hank Sauer. My second was Ernie Banks.
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>>>>However, there's one thing about baseball that this current "scandal" can't take way from what Bonds has accomplished. All the steriods in the world can't improve your eye/hand co-ordination. Can you hit the ball farther? Sure, but it doesn't matter if you can't hit it in the first place.
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>>>>(He who grew up with the kids of the players and coaches of the Chicago White Sox.)
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>>>Any HR records he has or attains will be severely tainted. I agree that his eye/hand coordination has ZIP to do with any doping he has done, but I can't help but believe that this doping did enhance his power and his HR production. He should receive a permanent ban from baseball because he does not deserve to pass Ruth and Aaron on the HR list. This is also far worse than any thing Pete Rose or Joe Jackson did to the game. At least they earned their HRs the old fashioned way. I also think his HRs from 2003 should be stricken from the record books.
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>>Perhaps a new category should be in order. Records while on drugs. This way everybody would be happy. Purists would still have the records from the clean guys (or perhaps they could be called those not caught yet) and the mutants category.