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.

[krk]

Ran across a great article today. Located here:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/co...39;+credibility

But it's not really rocket science, is it? Take a sport, and pile up "big money on the table if you are successful." All areas of regulation will be tested (equipment, drugs, etc) -- if your drug testing policy has weaknesses, it will likely be exploited by someone. And if you look at the level of ingenuity applied in some sport with seemingly rigorous programs (i.e. the olympics), it's not a big step to think about the same machinery being applied in sports with less rigorous programs.

It's business. So was Enron.

kim.