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Those cortisone injections are an example of somebody legally using a type of steroid under a doctor's care. I woulld imagine that would apply to more than a few officials on this forum too. They're about as far from what Bonds and the other juicers were doing as you can get. Apples and watermelons.
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Why?
A performance enhancing drug enhances performance whether you get it from an MD or a gym rat with connections.
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Let's try again. What do Kirk Gibson & Willis Reed have in common? They are men, who when you wouldn't trust them to carry an egg from the refrig to the frying pan, pulled out one single miracle performance only because they were both shot full of drugs. IOW their performance was enhanced by drugs.
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Of course, I also do agree with you that MLB was jumping up and down when McGwire and Sosa were having their homerun battle. They coulda cared less that steroids were involved. It certainly did take Canseco and the U.S. government to pull their head outa their butts. They're hardly unique there though. What professional sport anymore really cares about anything except maximizing their investment?
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Good to see you've come to your senses.
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As far as baseball's greed goes: what's wrong with greed? It's their investment, why shouldn't they maximize their return? Which leads me to another point: the 1 thing you CANNOT fault MLB for is "willful neglect". They have had a precise strategy since the 70's to grow worldwide revenue. The WBC this week springs directly from that strategy.
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They are allowed their greed and I am allowed to turn my back on the game (which I pretty much have after living and dying with it through the 70's and 80's.)
I meant willful neglect in terms of their caretaking of the beauty and integrity of the game itself, not of revenues or franchise financial health.
My opinions are really just the grumblings of a bitter ex-fan and don't really mean anything. whatever this crap is they are selling now is making a whole lot more money than the game of baseball I used to love. But the day Bonds' name goes above Aaron's in the record book is the day they may as well take a big piss on the record book, IMO.
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You're late to the party.
Some of us pissed on the record book back when Mcgwire & Sosa broke 61.
[Edited by Dan_ref on Mar 9th, 2006 at 06:34 PM]