WOT: Steriods in Baseball, are you still a fan? Options

[MattR]

Two players have come out in two days. Yesterday it was Jason Giambi of the Yankees who knew he took steriods and today its Barry Bonds of the Giants who claims he didnt know they were steriods. What are your reactions? Can you still love baseball? Does this change how you look at these new power hitters? What should Bud Selig do? (commissioner).

For me, I was elated when both a Giant and Yankee were found guilty of steriod use, but when you eliminate the competition aspect from a homer's point of view (go dodgers), but I think this really hurts baseball. I think its similar to the strike of '96, they're going to lose a lot of fans. Its too bad, and I do think its the worst thing to happen to the sport since '96.

[balljoint]

From the shape of a lot of those guys it was pretty easy to assume they were using steroids. Performance enhancing drugs are so high profile around the Olympics and they do testing in other sports, I think it was a worse thing when Baseball was pretending that there wasn't a problem. Now that they are having to deal with an extra load of bad press they will have to implement some kind of testing program.

Selig gives the entire league a 3 month notice that they are going to be tested. He then states clearly that if there are fewer than 5% positive tests then there is "no problem". Then the players promptly fail in over 30% of the tests. Duh. They had three months to get themselves clean but as a group they were too dumb to get it right.

I miss hockey.