Can we all just accept the fact that MLB Players used and use steroids?

Question

I'm tired of hearing new stories on the news on which player has been linked to using steroids. I'm a serious baseball fan and i could care less who uses steroids. They have been using them for years and i don't understand why people are surprised by this. If you didn't know that Mark Mcgwire was using steroids when in the mid 90's just by looking at his body then you were in denial. I'm pretty sure it was very very common and may still be so i don't know what the big deal is all of the sudden these past couple years. Can't we just move on and forget about it. MLB just announced it made 6 billion dollars this year and this is after all these steroid allegations. That just goes to show most fans don't care about steroids and they don't want to hear about them. Fans like ballparks, exciting games, rivalries, HOME RUNS. Why can't we just accept the fact they used steroids and leave it at that. If the truth really came out you would be very surprised how many MLB Players used steroids

Answer 1

No we won't is not fair to some players that their teammates are cheating because they want to make it. Think about how many teams got screwed out of a chapionship. Do you really think Barry Bonds was the guy that has the most home runs last year somebody else deserves that honor.

Answer 2

I don't think steroid use is anywhere near as common as you think. In my experience, there are three types of clubs: a) nested, b) a star, c) clean. The clubs with a nest of steroid users are the ones like the Oakland A's of the 80s or the Texas Rangers of the 90s. The Bash Brothers were totally artificially enhanced. Some teams have one star, like Gary Sheffield, who juiced, but did so most privately. Other teams had a lot of pressure to stay clean, the White Sox were like that. Frank Thomas always intimidated people to stay clean. ((If you think Frank Thomas may have juiced, then you really know nothing about baseball.)) I for one, hate the juicers and think they should be treated like the gamblers pre-1919: they should all be banned for life.

Answer 3

And where does it stop?
Should be accept that college players use steroids so that they get noticed by pro scouts, maybe high school football players who need some size to be "seen" by the college scouts.
Let's just make steroids available OTC - like aspirin. Then anyone can take it to be one of the "beautiful people".

If it's wrong, and cheating, then its wrong. Even if we have trouble now trying to figure out who uses and how to deal with it - we need to deal with it. If not for us, then for the next gen athletes - - - our kids.
I refuse to believe that all athletes are all about the money. Maybe that makes me naive - but that's fine. If I truly believe it was all about the money - I would no longer be a baseball fan - just a money fan.

Answer 4

I've been accused of cheating before, that's why I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that babe Ruth did anything besides party too hard. I do believe Lance Armstrong is a guy who uses steroids or performance enhancing drugs, and plays the saint for fans. If he used pot or drank, he wouldn't be able to play the saint, everybody would figure he's not only just like us, he's worse than us, he's supposed to be special. Well, Lance Armstrong plays Mr special too damn well, I believe he's got something to hide, unless his genetics are half kryptonian.

Answer 5

I think that some of the so-called fans here speaking negatively about Barry Bonds and the drug using players are not sports fans at all. They try to back their facts up with stats and trivia, but actually dont see the real "bad guy" here, the drugs that most athletes are using to "supposedly" enhance their performance.

Why is it that all of these other baseball players that were caught with those drugs in their systems are not members of the 500 HR club or Cy Young Award Winners, if the fans think they know for sure that those drugs truly enhance performance via scientific study?

True fans could care less because I've never seen any of them throw back any of Barry Bonds' and other "drug using" slugger's batting practice or ingame HRs! If baseball were without HR's, drug enhanced or not, I could care less because it's not my body getting damaged by drug use, and those HR's sure are entertaining!

I think that the fake fans should go to the Yahoo Health or Liberal message boards and voice their opinions against drug use there..... Pro sports will have athletes "using", no matter how stringent the drug testing programs are..... Everyone wants to supplement their natural talent with "something else" and Barry Bonds is not the only one.....

Answer 6

I agree with you, and while we're on the subject, why don't they ever investigate pitchers. It's not like they never cheated before. Gaylord Perry's Vaseline ball is more famous then anything else he accomplished in his career. Instead congress makes a big show out of a panel created to expose steroids in baseball.(you know, so we will see our tax money isn't wasted) All the hitters denied using we're treated like lairs. The one pitcher (ol' bloody sock) denied steroids, and it was accepted as gospel. Pitchers have just as much to gain from steroids as hitters, they should investigate both, or preferably none.

Answer 7

They don't call us The Giants for nothing guys...when the Dingers are going out and making crooked numbers appear like majic on the board; you tend to forgive a litte more easier; most of you would have supported him to the end too..Fkn' A,,he was with us for 15 years...and then before him; we loved his Dad.. Can you really blame us..we like homers as much as the next guy; only better when they're launched by OUR guy...and we love OUR Giants.. Cut us some slack now,,huh??? WE know he's a turd!
Sorry bout him.. we're still Giants fans with or without him; matter of fact; most every one of us is glad he's outta here..swear to god..we are so glad that's over.. you think it'd be the other way around; but enough is enough..good riddens Barry "We never really gave you a knickaname like the players we REALLY loved like Stretch Mcovey, or "Say Hey?? Willie??" You've always just been Barry "The expensive pain in the ***, rude *** player that took over for Jeffrey Leonard, that was VERY rude to Jeffrey Leonard before Jeffrey Leonard retired after filling the huge hole Jack Clark left out there... but now he's gone..and we can get back to digging the **** out of OUR GIANTS Because we love those SFGiants man!!!
YEAHH!!!
NOW..let's figure out how to Hit "X" amount of Home Runs; but somehow stay in last place all year...BARRY????? You could have at least waved once in a while; we were the only one's that DIDN'T throw syringes and Duracell's at you.. WE showed the class by apoligizing for you;and giving you a place to play when the rest of the league considered you UNEMPLOYABLE; like they do now; you rude SOB... Thanks though for the *** whippin's you gave the Dodgers over the years.... In that area you were a regular WIll Clark (Card carrying member),, FKn' Dodgers...what's up with that?? Where are you Tommy??? WE Miss you blowing us kisses when you came on the field with those "BUMS"...
I"M OUTTA HERE!!!!! NO...I'm SAFE!!!!

CandleStickInTheMudderBrudder!

Answer 8

i honestly beleive that team and the comish pushed for players to use . after the strike season i believe 94 they needed to do something to get there fan base back , and the homerun chase with mcgwire and sosa in 98 was the best thing for baseball. it brought alot of fans back

Answer 9

Why can't we just forget about it? America's past time has been made unclean. We all know that it has, so why don't we accept it? I don't know about you, but I think a true baseball fan would be a little mad that the sport he loves hasn't been what he though it was.

Answer 10

You can accept what ever you would like; this is a free country and YA is a free society as long as you follow the guildines so you are free to believe what ever makes you happy!