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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Frankly, I doubt the steroid scandal will affect MLB much at all in terms of popularity. It'll become like the Olympics. Every once in a while we'll get shocked as a big name gets caught cheating and tossed out, then life returns to normal the next day.
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And that is sad. I hope Albert Pujols is clean, but because 'roids seem so pervasive in MLB I have to wonder.
Same as the NFL. National Felons League. Assault Charge? A few Battery charges? Well, you're under contract now so don't so that any, m'kay?
Win a medal at the Olympics? Don't celebrate until the drug test comes back. Even then, it may be years before it gets sorted out (a la Beckie Scott).
I hate feeling jaded, but almost any accomplishment anymore seems to have a lingering doubt. The fact that the Players Associations are so against drug testing seems to me to make all the players complicit inthe problem. Some players will always try to cheat, but until the leagues, associations and players all decide to work together to try and catch the cheaters, it is all a competition between chemists.