I think that this is something that the government absolutely should have no role in, so yes, I care.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I voted no, because it really doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
I'm not a baseball fan, never really have been.
What I don't get is why there is such a big to do about it. Most people (particularly those who were involved in high school sports back in the early '80's) kind of have an instinctive feeling that most sports programs are tainted by some form of performance enhancing substances... I mean, how else do you explain an 8th grader with the body of a mini-Schwarzenegger and 5 o'clock shadow? (and that's just the girl's gymnastics team... just kiddin'... ) I was behind a couple guys that fit that bill in wrestling for my whole junior and senior high experience.
Anyway, what is the big deal with it in professional sports? Pro sports is not about the "purity" of the sport and physical fitness anymore anyway... it is all about money and celebrity and money and fame and money. Bring it all out in the open, acknowledging the dangers it has on the body so that people are "informed" and so that parents and students of kids who want to go into pro sports can make wise choices (or at least not blame anyone for ruining their bodies). So, get it all out in the open and make sure it is supervised and administered openly then there is no "scandal".
Oh, and the other thing would be to stop the practice of turning collegiate and high school athletics into the farm programs for pro sports. Period.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
The U.S. government supports baseball through various subsidies and grants to different cities so yes I do care. I think since they are ponying up money which I think they shouldn't, they then though have a right to make sure there isn't any illegal activity taking place. Personally, I hope the major leagues all go under. They are horrible examples to children and young athletes. I used to go to a couple major league games every summer but cannot stomach the attitudes and garbage anymore. I was as big a fan of baseball growing up as you could be. I still have a box full of cards and memoriabelia I collected back then. It makes me sick to my stomach to see these guys doing illegal drugs and not only getting away with it but hearing people actually say it's not big deal. They have destroyed something good about America and the innocence of children. Those that played by the rules were at a dissadvantage. I would kick them out of baseball forever, remove their records, and throw them out of the hall of fame.
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As I walk through this earth, nothing can stop, the Duke of Mirth!
Well, yeah, that would be the pragmatic thing to do, Duke, but we're talking money... as long as sports is an industry for making rich people richer and sports figures gods, there is going to be this sort of stuff going on. It will just get more embedded and move deeper down into the shadows.
The "for the love of the game" attitude was lost many decades ago. It has just been in our lifetimes that the public has gotten to the point they can't turn a blind eye to it anymore.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I think that this is something that the government absolutely should have no role in, so no, I don't care.
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no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
Slate Magazine is running an op-ed piece about how Bush's thirst for power is to blame for the steroids problem in baseball... Hahahahaha... idiots... Bush is to blame for everything.
--Ray
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just kiddin'... 
) I was behind a couple guys that fit that bill in wrestling for my whole junior and senior high experience.
