Cheating in Sports
I wish I could take credit for this, but it is from my Representative at Merril Lynch.
"In most sports today you have to ask who’s running the asylum. Baseball and football players keep saying they want to rid their game of drugs, but it’s hard to believe them when they keep fighting every effort to find the cheaters. Why are the players even in the mix when it comes to drugs in sports? The folks who run the game should be the onlty ones making the decisions or rules concerning banning the taking of illegal drugs in sports.
The latest battle is over human growth hormone. The World Anti-Doping Agency expects to have a blood test ready later this year for the previously undetectable drug. Athletes in Olympic sports will be subject to it. But the players in America’s two biggest sports don’t want any part of it. Again why are we even asking the ones who will be tested for cheating?
We’ve heard this before. Baseball has undergone a steroids scandal whose effects will continue to be felt as long as Barry Bonds is still swinging a bat and guys like Mark McGwire are on the Hall of Fame ballot because the players wouldn’t agree to be tested. They finally gave in on steroids, then fought like the devil against testing for amphetamines, finally agreeing to be tested for the drug that fueled the game for generations – as long as the penalties weren’t too severe.
This is very simple: If the players don’t like the rules against taking illegal drugs, don’t let them play the game. The reality is that players want to protect what they see as their right to cheat. There’s no other way to explain their unflinching resistance to every effort to root out the cheaters among them. They might say they don’t want cheaters, but if they meant that, they’d be the ones demanding the strictest testing possible. It’s just my thoughts!"
Thought provoking, isn't it?
"In most sports today you have to ask who’s running the asylum. Baseball and football players keep saying they want to rid their game of drugs, but it’s hard to believe them when they keep fighting every effort to find the cheaters. Why are the players even in the mix when it comes to drugs in sports? The folks who run the game should be the onlty ones making the decisions or rules concerning banning the taking of illegal drugs in sports.
The latest battle is over human growth hormone. The World Anti-Doping Agency expects to have a blood test ready later this year for the previously undetectable drug. Athletes in Olympic sports will be subject to it. But the players in America’s two biggest sports don’t want any part of it. Again why are we even asking the ones who will be tested for cheating?
We’ve heard this before. Baseball has undergone a steroids scandal whose effects will continue to be felt as long as Barry Bonds is still swinging a bat and guys like Mark McGwire are on the Hall of Fame ballot because the players wouldn’t agree to be tested. They finally gave in on steroids, then fought like the devil against testing for amphetamines, finally agreeing to be tested for the drug that fueled the game for generations – as long as the penalties weren’t too severe.
This is very simple: If the players don’t like the rules against taking illegal drugs, don’t let them play the game. The reality is that players want to protect what they see as their right to cheat. There’s no other way to explain their unflinching resistance to every effort to root out the cheaters among them. They might say they don’t want cheaters, but if they meant that, they’d be the ones demanding the strictest testing possible. It’s just my thoughts!"
Thought provoking, isn't it?
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