Stop and think about this from two perspectives:
1. Cheating infers that an opponent has an advantage over his opponent (use of steroids/PEDs). Do you HONESTLY think that if an MLB player wanted to get his hands on PEDs he could? Thus, it says that becase a player chooses NOT to use, that those who DO choose to use are cheaters...HUH?
2. Do PEDs help with hitting a baseball? You have to time the pitch and hit a round ball with a round stick at the precise angle in the right direction. Will PEDs help that ball go father...yes. BUT you have to make contact first. PEDs don't help that.
Steroids and PEDs are player-hater crutches.
Don't want to hear about the legalities.
2007-12-14 07:35:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
No, I don't think it's cheating. I think there's nothing at all wrong with athletes using steroids. It makes for more entertainment.
Health consequences? LOL! Gimme a break! Just BEING a pro athlete has health consequences! If you were concerned about health, you'd outlaw the sports. What hypocrisy!
Not fair? LOL again! What's "fair" about the whole thing? Professional athletes are freaks of nature to begin with, mutants with very specialized powers far beyond normal -- it's not a matter of fairness. Anyway, to be fair, just allow the damn steroids, and let it be fair that it's any individual athlete's choice whether he wants to use them or not.
2007-12-14 07:39:03 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew O 5 · 2⤊ 8⤋
Cheating doesn't infer anything. It may imply a lack of conscience on aplayer or players. Only the interpreter of a given set of information can infer something from that. Now tha English 101 is over, let me addres the cheating question. You can't remove the legalities from this issue--legalism is fundamental to cheating or playing fairly. With increased muscle mass comes the increased ability to hold and move more easily a round stick that is being directed at an incoming sphere. Steroids help increase muscle mass. You can make a simple inference from these facts. {By the way, eyeglasses are also PEDs, but since they don't pose a health risk,they are not generally considered illegal.}
2007-12-14 15:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by ponyboy 81 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly, your definition of cheating must be your own, because you are of course, way off base.
Cheating - To violate rules deliberately, as in a game. While there may not have been rules around EXACTLY the stuff they used, there are rules about foreign substances and drugs.
Secondly, you don't want to hear about the legalities because they automatically offer a contrary opinion to yours.
To infer that one must begin to use PED so it's a fair playing field is absurd. Do you really want the world to operate like that?
On your second point, do they help with hitting a baseball? They help with SOMETHING or people wouldn't use them.
Yes, they help with distance and healing. But your concept that they have to make contact first is pointless, if they couldn't make contact, steroids or not, they wouldn't be in the position to cheat in the first place.
2007-12-14 15:58:39 · answer #3 · answered by brettj666 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is really cheating.
Just because a lot of people were doing it does not make it okay.
and yes, PEDs help with hitting a ball. You still have to be able to hit it, but hitting it harder is a good thing for most players. And strength also helps with bat control, so it's not just distance.
2007-12-14 15:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
They may not help with hitting a baseball, but they do help once the contact is made. But if it does help with bat speed, it does help in all the categories you stated of putting the bat on the ball.
It's like saying it doesnt change a defensive linemans rushing approach, but it sure helps the force in which it is done.
If it didnt help why do so many take the risk.
2007-12-14 16:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by The Lorax 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Deduce what you will from it. Steroids do more than build muscle. They help in recovery, can improve hand-eye coordination, increase fast-twitch-muscle speed. Patrick Arnold, the chemist who created the Clear – another of BALCO's steroids – and later was sentenced to four months in jail, said his performance-enhancing drugs really did enhance performance.
What do u gotta say about that!
2007-12-14 16:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by TRS 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the sad thing is we hear about players who took hgh or steroids and they only have 2 career homeruns =[. plus if canseco is spewing out the truth , which was somewhat proven by mitchell, doesn't that mean it's en even playing field because everyone is cheating?
2007-12-14 19:13:58 · answer #7 · answered by elias 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PED enhance performance (thus the name), which is to say that the player was able to perform before, which is granted, but taking PED's is not in the "spirit" of the game.
2007-12-14 15:39:58 · answer #8 · answered by haveyoueversleptoutside 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, yes and no. For one, you are right, it does not help you hit the baseball. But, what the problem is, is when you DO hit the ball. It does go a lot futher, that is an unfair to all the other players who follow the rules and play the game regulerly.
2007-12-14 15:45:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's cheating. It gives an unfair advantage. Up to 5% greater bat speed.
2007-12-14 15:43:53 · answer #10 · answered by Denny B 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Performance enhancers are expressly prohibited by MLB. So regardless of the advantages or disadvantages, it's not allowed, and therefore against the rules. But those that took them before they were expressly banned, I don't see a problem with it since they operated within the scope of rules set forth by MLB.
2007-12-14 15:44:43 · answer #11 · answered by Joe L 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋