Reply #4: Well

[Johonny]

Why should players have to play by the standards of say the NFL? NFL is a contact sport where a juiced up player has a larger impact in creating serious on the field injuries. In non-contact baseball it's not as big a problem. Certainly long term health of these athelets is an issue, but it's their issue and it's them that should be pushing for a clean sport. Until the players care, I could not give one crap.

If steroids have raised the cost of baseball it's only because it's raised the fan interest. The same hypocrites that are crying foul are the same people that have flock to the sport even though it only takes the casual sports fan to know steroid use was rampant. A testing program to give the sport a fake illusion of purity is the kind of false American values I'm sick of.


Think of it this way. NCAA standards treat players as cattle. With restrictions on length, choice, pay (both in sport and outside)... Should baseball have the NCAA standards? Well in a way it did until the player union fought for freedom.