Steroids

Recent news out of San Francisco has reported that Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi have receive steroids through the mail from BALCO. Ofcourse all of their denials are we may have received steroids but we didn't know what they were.

I know they aren't that stupid, because if they did receive steroids through the mail that jumps from simply breaking a local law to breaking a federal law. And if they did receive it through the mail the first thing they should of done is contact their attorney and get in touch with local law enforcement to report they receive something in the mail that may have contained steroids but aren't sure what it is. Because you do not want to be caught up in a Federal investigation that could put you away for a very long time. As far as what is being reported neither of these athletes did that.

The use of steroids by any athlete in baseball is an attempt to destroy baseball itself. More than any other sport baseball depends on its history. When the numbers 3,000, .300, 500, 755, 61 and 56 are repeated people know exactly what they mean and what the significance of those numbers are. Baseball is built on numbers and with those numbers we judge the players of now with ones of the past. By using performance enhancers you cheapen those records and in the end you cheapen and hurt baseball.

It will be really sad to find out that Bonds has used steroids because that will show he is a shallow, pale comparison to guys like Willie Mays and Babe Ruth. It will show a fat guy that got drunk before each game was still better than a steroid enhanced behemoth named Barry Bonds. While for some that may enhance Babe Ruth's status as the greatest ever, I don't want a guy who used steroids having his name ahead or even near Ruth's records.

Any athlete that has been found to have been using steroids should have all of his records from the day he entered baseball till the date he was discovered taking steroids erased from the record books. No asterisk should be placed next to their names, their records should simply just disappear.

that's why the baseball players union needs to start testing everyone in baseball for steroids now! You need to make sure these records that are falling left and right are being done legitly and only through natural methods.

I don't agree with Ivy Chats comments.....

All entertainers enhance themselves artificially. Until they eliminate plastic surgery from Hollywood, then juice in baseball is fine by me.

But actors don't become better actors if they get a boob job or a better looking face. If you give steroids to a ball player he becomes a better player overall. On top of that its not fair to the athletes that are not using steroids. These natural athletes should not have to compete against un-natural athletes that were basically created by the best chemist money could buy.

You have to test everyone, only then can baseball get out from under this dark cloud.