Steroids, Steroids, Steroids...Makin' Me Sick

We all know steriods are illegal. We all know athletes have a tendency to dabble in the matters of taking, injesting, and injecting things that can give them a performance edge over the competition.

We all also know that doing so leads to more pebbles, cash, dinero, duckets. or whatever you'd like to call it...in an athlete's pocket.

As fans and media, I can't help but put some belief in the fact that we played a huge part (especially in baseball) in the steriod era. We wanted more homeruns. We wanted more stolen bases. We wanted to see more excitement in a sport that seemed to be falling in viewership and for the lack of a better term...excitement.

So what did baseball do? It went out and pumped up to get excitement and that worked. Suddenly, there was a homerun race. Records were being broken left and right.

And we LOVED IT! The fans and the media had no complaints and at the time were so excited about the productivity that we turned away and played ignorant about performance enhancing drugs and their roll in baseball.

Sure steroids were around then and the thought that ball players could be using them was very evident, but WE DIDN'T CARE. Something should have been done then. Something should have been said. Why wasn't it?

Money. Excitement. And America's past-time returning to its huge status once again.

You want to bust people for steroids? Fine. It was and is illegal.

But HGH...is a huge crock. It wasn't illegal. It wasn't even against the rules during the years that most of the players have been accused of purchasing it from ridiculous reports like Senator Mitchell's.

It's like the league deciding that caffeine is against the rules one day and then going back and looking at all of the pictures of people with cokes and coffee in their hands and accusing them of cheating.

The Fact of the matter is: WITH HGH THE ATHLETES WERE NOT CHEATING if they were using it before it was deemed "against the rules."

Think about the logistics of a ridiculous claim and a terrible case before you go accusing people of things that you arbitrarily make rules against one day and start pointing fingers.

So, as the media and as fans, its our duty to end this. To quit talking about it. Let it rest and leave these mens to do what we love...compete and entertain. Put in drug tests. Put in fines and penalties if athletes fail, but don't look back to what was done in the past.

Let's move forward.