It seems baseball players are guilty until proven innocent when it comes to steriod
allegations. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have never pleaded guilty or been found
guilty of taking illegal drugs or purgering themselves. Roger acknowledged that he will
never have his good name and reputation back. Both men are looking at the Hall of
Fame from the outside in. Mark McGwuire is hiding in his gated community as well
after his lack of testimony in front of the oversight committee. Are baseball players
taking all the heat for steriods in sports, and is that fair?
Originally, the biggest case against Barry Bonds was before and after pictures.
Pictures from his Pirate days suggest he was a slim athlete, and with the Giants
he absolutely blew up beyond belief. Not only was his body mass huge so was the circumference of his head. After those pictures Barry Bonds became the subject of
scrutiny that he was never able to overcome.
To be fair we should post all athete's before and after pictures. For instance lets look
at a player in college and then fast forward to the prime of his career. Could we find
pictures even more unbelievable than Barry Bonds? What should these pictures do
to this athlete's career? That is for all of you to decide.
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Comments (3)
I don't think pictures are ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by The Blue Workhorse | February 18, 2008 10:38 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I don't think pictures are justifiable as evidence. Almost every single professional player gets heavier throughout their career, especially if the sport involves a lot of contact. When their peers are bigger and stronger than in college, players usually have to add weight (usually muscle) in order to ward off from being injury prone (rag dolls are easier to injure than rock-hard bodies).
Baseball is less of a contact sport, and is the one sport where you can be short, stubby, tall, lanky, or even fat, but as long as you have the god-given talent to throw or hit a baseball, you still can play.
1. Posted by The Blue Workhorse | February 18, 2008 10:38 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 18, 2008 22:38
2. Posted by Peter F. | February 19, 2008 4:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Brent,
An excellent post that makes a point I've made on numerous occasions: ancedotal evidence, such as the pictures you provided and, my personal favorite, " but his head is bigger!" are NOT evidence of steroid use.
Welcome to the fray, by the way!
2. Posted by Peter F. | February 19, 2008 4:18 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2008 16:18
3. Posted by Brent Blaze | February 19, 2008 6:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I expect every sport to have a strong drug policy and to test often without notice to the player. Several players in different sports will get busted, and they should be punished greatly.
Players in baseball are taking all the media abuse on steroids. However if you watched the oversight meeting closely you can draw a direct link back to the owners in all the "talk". Now it is just talk, but the owners are as guilty as any party in all of this.
Everyone is pointing to pictures of these guys saying player X used steriods. Well I've seen Shaq in college and now in the pros. If anyone is guilty of using roids based on pictures, then the biggest case to be made is against Shaq.
Shaq was the second best center on his team at LSU. Shaq wasn't even the center with the biggest build on the team. Shaq's work ethic has been called into question throughout his career, and yet he has turned into the muscle mass pictured above.
The congressmen and women should have been focusing on drug testing in the sport. If you want to ruin the career of Clemens, Bonds, or Shaq then show me a failed drug test. Otherwise, go back to puting the country in debt or writing about sports.
3. Posted by Brent Blaze | February 19, 2008 6:30 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2008 18:30