Alex Rodriguez On Steroids

Brian, I fully agree with your last sentence - and while I do somewhat fault the players for knowingly cheating, the real culprits in this mess are the MLB leadership. There was known usage decades ago, but it was always ignored. Then when slightly above-average players started hitting 50 home runs a year, we all knew it wasn't legit. Baseball as a whole profited from the home run record chases of a few years ago, but now they're going to have to pay for it. Bud Selig, and maybe previous commissioners, should be held most responsible. Probably the heads of the player's union should be faulted just as much. Baseball will survive this, but it is a huge black eye for the sport. I feel sorry for the players of the era who did not cheat, especially the ones denied a roster spot to someone else who was juiced up.

I find the whole steroid issue in sport to be quite comical. ALL professional athletes are dirty, as long as money is involved (and based on performance) athletes will cheat...period. To detect steroids you must test for the product that is being used, there are 10's of THOUSANDS of performance inhancing steroids available if you are motivated enough to look. We will never have the resources to test for all of them, people will always get by. Most of the big name cheaters that get caught never fail a test, they are implicated through doctor's and pharmacutical records. I think that we just need to realize that the pros are juiced, and live with it. Why do you think so many top pro athletes die before their 60th birthday?

Very good points. Implementing 100% effective drug testing is next to impossible. That being said there should still be an effort made to limit illegal substances from sports.

Here's what happens when steroids are legal. All Drug Olympics

Thanks, that's a funny video. And I don't mean to rant. It's just that the general public so ignorant to the extent of the doping in sports (womens luge is the only olympic sport that has never had a disqualification for doping). I don't believe the juicers have an unfair advantage, because the athletes that they beat are juicing too. And I really don't know what the solution is. The fact that adults are killing themselves for huge amounts of money doesn't bother me. Just so long as the fans recognize it for what it is. What bothers me is the teenagers that start doing it to try and go pro. Think of all the kids that don't make it and end up doing alot of physical and even phycological damage to themselves in the process. The whole thing makes me crazy.

Just like with crime, you're not going to stop everyone, but that shouldn't keep you from trying. At the very least, public humiliation suffered by the likes of A-Rod, Giambi, Clemens, McGwire, etc should be somewhat of a deterrent.

I really don't see professional athletes caring about public humiliation. Their main concern seems to be all about themselves and what they are able to get away with to make themselves better athletically. There may be some few acceptions to this rule.