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If your heroes are baseball players, are YOU the one with the steroid problem?
I'm appalled that more than a passing mention in the press comes out of this steroid story. The real drug-use problems in this country - the ones that have a huge and crushing effect on our culture - are mostly alcohol-related. This story has glamour, so it's a national crisis we're all meant to be interested in. If you look to big-money sports for your role models, you're looking in the wrong direction. Even the idea of a 'team' as a cultural icon is a silly myth.
Fans are addicted to the big muscles and the high scores; they're as responsible as the players. There are somewhere between 750 and 1280 major-league baseball players. More people die in drunk driving accidents in the U.S. every month. But most of them don't earn a living playing sports.
Boston: Read carefully - "...surprised that MORE THAN a passing mention...." That means I don't think the story merits the attention it gets. Before you get on me about hypocrisy, I'm interested in the attention the story gets, not the players' steroid use itself.
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Lighten up bro! I agree that alcohol is a WAY bigger social problem than jucing, that's obvious. Personally, I could care less. In the big picture this story is small potatoes. We've got 2 wars going on, and election coming up, a BIG border problem--who gives a rat's a*ss about some athletes juicing it up. Is it cheating to use pain killers or have ortho-scopic surgery? I like seeing a player hit 73 home runs, n' I don't care if it's a result of jucing--we, the fans, are the winners. As Bonds said, the juice won't help a player to make bat contact w/ a baseball.
JUICE FOREVER!
Salaam.
- 1 decade ago
So what are you trying to say here? That we should focus more on alcohol than on Steroids??
You maybe right, though..
- pricehillsaintLv 51 decade ago
Charles Barkley said it best, "I am not a role model! Parents should be role models."
If you're worshiping athletes, instead of God, Jesus, your parents, police officers/firefighters/soldiers that risk their lives everyday, then you got bigger issues than drugs & alcohol!
- ReduviidaeLv 61 decade ago
Am I the one with the steroid problem? No... I don't use performance enhancing drugs, so I will not be impotent.
