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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Over the last couple of months there has been a steady trickle of news about Major League Baseball players and NFL players that have been found to be using steriods and/or human growth hormones. When I hear the national media (drunken slobbery hacks that they are) talk about these offenses they sort of downplay them as minor violations or they say that the relative leagues are taking "appropriate measures" to punish the offenders.

My response to this is: what a load of crap!

if these guys were participants in an olympic sport governed by WADA they'd have gotten a two year vacation without pay. Shawn Merriman would still be cooling his heals at home. Richard Seymour's career would be over. About half of the pro baseball players would be looking at stocking groceries at the SaveMart. Just having their names associated with these fake doctors (or at least dentists with suspended medical licenses) and "anti-aging" clinics would be enough to get them removed from their teams and suspended from competition.

I'm sick of the double standard. Either reveal that most of the big money sports are about as credible as pro-wrestling or clean it up. If you look at the number and types of injuries in pro football, it's pretty clear that steriod and HGH use are rampant. Muscle tears on simple tackles are almost always a result of more muscle mass than can be sustained. Why do college seniors need a month or more to prepare for the NFL Combine? Why do they have separate "pro days?" It allows you to plan your drug enhanced proformance peak for the exact conditions without having to hide your injections for two or three days.

And don't even get me started on the NBA.

I love sports. I hate cheating. I want to believe in something in sports as inspiring but I don't. Every time I see an incredible play in an NFL game I think...drugs...

At least in cycling there's still the purity of suffering.

I have to go now; my glass is half empty.

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