Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

Thanks for noting the other red herring... "the real reason they were banned was because of health concerns."

Yes - they have adverse health impacts - which must obviously mean the decision to ban them has nothing to do with an unfair competitive advantage - all of which somehow makes it more acceptable.

So you actually THINK that if a "safe steroid" were developed competive sports would have no problem with those or other performance enhancing drugs and make them legal again??????

But to your main point, you're correct.

If people actually understood that Steroids gave McGwire and other athletes an unfair competitive advantage and helped them hit more home runs, there wouldn't have to be threads like this.

Originally Posted by scout

Are you people freakin' insane? Steroids don't help you hit home runs. Kind of like guns don't kill, bullets do.
Semantics. It wasn't steroids that helped Rafael Palmeiro go from a single hitter to a power hitter, it was his recovery and work outs.........got it.
As for Big Mac, maybe if he had told the truth in front of Congress he'd be going to the HOF.

Originally Posted by ausbacker

You know, you are coming across a bit smug.. or perhaps I am just misreading the tone of your posts.

Steroids were never legislated against to restrict their performance enhance capabilities. They were legislated against because people were abusing them and dying from massive heart attacks.

Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

Um - yeah... it's the health concerns that everyone's all riled up about when it comes to steroids.

It's got nothing to do with the fact that they are a

PERFORMANCE

ENHANCING

DRUG

that

ENHANCES

PERFORMANCE


it's the health concerns...

So when exactly did they prohibit athletes from smoking cigarettes? Those cause thousands of times more heart attacks than steroids.

I can just see it now... McGwire comes clean... he once was a closet smoker.

And of course the defenders... "Well, smoking cigarettes doesn't help him hit home runs (unlike STEROIDS!)"

It's kindof tough to believe this has to be spelled out for people!

Originally Posted by dalero

If people actually understood that Steroids gave McGwire and other athletes an unfair competitive advantage and helped them hit more home runs, there wouldn't have to be threads like this.

Originally Posted by ausbacker

Are you plainly that ******* stupid that you don't realise I am saying when steroids were legislated against (you know when they first became illegal to use) with world anti-doping bodies, it wasn't because they were performance enhancing, it was the amount of deaths and associated health issue that were being attributed to their abuse?

The sporting bodies around the world were not worried about their athletes "cheating".. they were worried about them dying.

**** me seriously.

Originally Posted by DarrylS

Fine with me, cheating bastards or gambling bastards should not be involved in Pro Sports, McGuire made a mockery of the game.. and the only reason he offers this half azzed confession is for a freaking job...

BTW do not give a rats azz about the Cuban Team from 50 years ago, because they did this it makes it ok???

Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

If people actually understood that Steroids gave McGwire and other athletes an unfair competitive advantage and helped them hit more home runs, there wouldn't have to be threads like this.