Do you care if pro baseball players are on steroids?

Question

Do you want to see a "pure" game, or would you prefer to see mammoth-sized home runs? and King Kong at the plate?

Answer 1

Why have a pure game? In the modern world, we should have every advantage to make the game more intense and interesting. I also think the opposing team should be robots. Ninja robots.

Answer 2

I want to see a FAIR game where the players, coaches and fans are all on the same page.

For example, we know that a player may use contact lenses or even get lasik surgery to improve his eyesight. It's legal. It's available to everyone (and it won't hurt my little leaguer if he needs to do the same thing).

Did the old timers have lasik surgery to help them see the ball better? No.

Is that somehow unfair when comparing statistics? Maybe, but hardly anything is comparable between two different eras.

At least with allowed medical technologies and training methods nobody's sneaking around cheating and taking advantages for themselves that aren't available to the non-cheaters. That's the big difference that makes the game FAIR again.

I say random drug testing and severe penalties for those who are caught. Meanwhile, let the records stand. For the most part, they were recorded while steroids were not banned by MLB (pre-2000). We know their use was rampant. It's a black eye on the history of the game. But we won't need an asterisk to remember who the biggest cheaters were.

Answer 3

I prefer a 'pure' game. I would have loved to see my dad's favorite players of the past - Mantle, DiMaggio, Robinson etc. play just one game of baseball. I'd also rather not see my favorite player die from steroid use so he could hit an impressive home run.

Answer 4

i want to see a pure game because we dont something to happen like barry "balco" bonds pass hank aaron in the hr title.if the commisioner cant tell that hes not on steroids then he must be smokin something whack.i think that the whole last year "knee injury" thing is whack, i think that he wasnt even hurt,and besides that was probly a diverson to get the steroids out of his system so the tests will come back negitive so he can pass ruth.

Answer 5

I really don't care what the baseball players do to their bodies. It is a game, and if players want to destroy their bodies for a lot of cash, more power to them. I'm not going to suffer one bit from it. I don't think any game is "pure", anyway. All professional sports are corrupt in one way or another; so leave the players alone.

Answer 6

I'd rather see a 'pure' game. Steroids have completely taken the focus away from the game itself.

Answer 7

well then the team with the best drugs wins. because with the right cocktail any guy can hit the home run. so i would have to say a pure game so that talent and hard work actually mean something

Answer 8

of course people today care about pro players on steriods look at it this way would all of todays players match up to yhe way the game was before all the hype on steriods came to be..NO
it give the game a bad name and could psossible harm it in the future.. alot of the records in todays sports are a misrepsenataion of the player who set broke the old one. could they have done it without the juice?

Answer 9

Steroids are like cheats to a video game

Answer 10

maybe we should have a drug free competition and an anything goes competition - same for all sports

then we can stop debating the issue

as it is hypocrisy - we want to see these gorillas slugging out of this universe on one hand then on the other we decry steroids - when we the spectators have driven this supply-demand market!!!

Answer 11

The use of steroids & other performance enhancers disrespects the old-timers and their REAL records, acheived with real talent and athleticism. Athletics are contests to determine the most talented & fittest; not to determine who will go the furthest to win.