WASHINGTON (AP) -- Major league players and owners agreed to toughen penalties for steroid use to a 50-game suspension for a first failed test, 100 days for a second and a lifetime ban for a third.
Here is the rest:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/11/15/steroids.policy.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
Fair??? I am not sure about it. Why three strikes?? Too much like baseball and the real world. Too much forgiveness. I am all about the one strike rule!
I'm with you, Ruby. Joe Average never gets cut that kind of slack. These people get paid (most cases) millions of dollars and set themselves in a position to be idols of little kids everywhere. They should be held accountable to the same kind of standard everyone else is. If they mess up, they should pay the price for it.
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Well, I think everyone deserves a second chance...but even though they think everyone is doing this...it is still cheating and goes to the integrity of the game...but it has put seats in the seats because everyone loves homers...stonger players = more HR's.
That having been said...I think they are trying to find a way to gracefully back away from this PR nightmare....hopefully 10 years from now this sad chapter in baseball's history will be closed and the athletes wont find new designer ways to cheat to get stronger.
Yes, there will always be cheaters and those looking for "the extra edge". I even agree that everyone deserves a second chance. The problem is that Joe Average doesn't necessarily get a second chance while just about any given celebrity or athlete gets a seemingly infinite number of second chances. I wouldn't want my kids or grandkids aspiring to be "just like Mike" if Mike was using drugs of any kind to get ahead. It's the same principle as holding the anorexically thin supermodels (Kate Moss comes to mind) as the symbol of beauty. Encouraging people to destroy their health to achieve success is just not right.
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I used to know this guy who was "on the juice". He did it because he wanted to be one of the best powerlifters in America. He thought this would help him. Honestly, it made him more muscular and thus stronger. He became nationally ranked. He wasn't the best but whe he was on steroids he achieved more than when he wasn't on them.
Why he'd put his life & the possibility of children on the line? I guess it was that his current GOAL became more important than the long term.
I haven't seen this guy in years but last I heard, he still didn't have any kids.
I used to think, let em take em, but then I think off the people they are up against. I do not think it is fair to play two football players against each other and one has that advantage.
I am thinking of a steroid using league for each sport and one non steriod using league?
This way the playing field evens up a little and then you know what you are up against!
