Taking PED’s gives you a strong advantage over the other players. Any ‘records’ A-Rod broke should be taken away from him. He did not earn anything the PED’s did.
Lying is also a disease for A-rod, writing phony “apologies” he doesn’t mean in the slightest is also a disease for him. I could continue, but A-rod makes me sick.
Cheating has gone on in baseball since the earliest days of the game. Should Joe Kelley be tossed out of Cooperstown because he used to hide balls in the tall grass in left field so he could relay singles to the infield faster? Whitey Ford was notorious for scuffing up balls. Kick him out, too? What about King Kelly, to whom half the rulebook owes its existence because of his creative interpretation of the rules in effect when he played?
A-Rod’s a special case because of his accompanying hubris, but he’s just one more case in a long history of players seeking an edge. Funny how so many of the same people who hate A-Rod for taking PEDs are giving Andy Pettite a free pass for doing the same thing.
I don’t care what drugs they take to play better! I want lots of home runs! When Sosa & McGuire were bashing them out of the park, it was exciting!This is all about a bunch of self-righteous sportswriters & one crackpot from Canada, Dick Pound, who think PEDs are the worst thing on Earth! Let them take anything they want, as long as they know the long term consequences.
PEDs serve as a good example of game theory’s prisoners’ dilemma.
If just one player took PEDs, it would give that player an advantage on the field. PEDs “work” only if few players use them.
However, if everybody took the PEDs, nobody would have an advantage; on the field, everybody would have about the same statistics as they would have if nobody took PEDs.
Better nutrition, of course, provides a similar advantage to everybody. However, there is a significant difference between better nutrition and PED use: PED use has terrible long-term effects on the human body.
Therefore, if all players were to use PEDs, there would be no improvement in overall on-field performance, while the athletes would fare very badly off the field.
We don’t want this to happen, so it makes sense to ban PEDs.
All the phony praying and genuflecting for Josh Hamilton’s “courageous battle” makes me ill. All I can think of is Steve Howe, of the half a dozen or so “second chances” he got for cocaine, and the vilification thrown at every black athlete who is found to have smoked marijuana.
AliCom almost 10 years ago
Taking PED’s gives you a strong advantage over the other players. Any ‘records’ A-Rod broke should be taken away from him. He did not earn anything the PED’s did.
Godfreydaniel almost 10 years ago
Lying is also a disease for A-rod, writing phony “apologies” he doesn’t mean in the slightest is also a disease for him. I could continue, but A-rod makes me sick.
Guilty Bystander almost 10 years ago
Cheating has gone on in baseball since the earliest days of the game. Should Joe Kelley be tossed out of Cooperstown because he used to hide balls in the tall grass in left field so he could relay singles to the infield faster? Whitey Ford was notorious for scuffing up balls. Kick him out, too? What about King Kelly, to whom half the rulebook owes its existence because of his creative interpretation of the rules in effect when he played?
A-Rod’s a special case because of his accompanying hubris, but he’s just one more case in a long history of players seeking an edge. Funny how so many of the same people who hate A-Rod for taking PEDs are giving Andy Pettite a free pass for doing the same thing.
strictures almost 10 years ago
I don’t care what drugs they take to play better! I want lots of home runs! When Sosa & McGuire were bashing them out of the park, it was exciting!This is all about a bunch of self-righteous sportswriters & one crackpot from Canada, Dick Pound, who think PEDs are the worst thing on Earth! Let them take anything they want, as long as they know the long term consequences.
tiyapakhi almost 10 years ago
PEDs serve as a good example of game theory’s prisoners’ dilemma.
If just one player took PEDs, it would give that player an advantage on the field. PEDs “work” only if few players use them.
However, if everybody took the PEDs, nobody would have an advantage; on the field, everybody would have about the same statistics as they would have if nobody took PEDs.
Better nutrition, of course, provides a similar advantage to everybody. However, there is a significant difference between better nutrition and PED use: PED use has terrible long-term effects on the human body.
Therefore, if all players were to use PEDs, there would be no improvement in overall on-field performance, while the athletes would fare very badly off the field.
We don’t want this to happen, so it makes sense to ban PEDs.
loner34 almost 10 years ago
A-Rod is a disease.
Mary McNeil Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Cheating is more a way of life, not a disease, to him !
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 10 years ago
All the phony praying and genuflecting for Josh Hamilton’s “courageous battle” makes me ill. All I can think of is Steve Howe, of the half a dozen or so “second chances” he got for cocaine, and the vilification thrown at every black athlete who is found to have smoked marijuana.