Analysis: The "Hating Game" with Barry Bonds

Now they are, but in 1998? HGH? Really?
And Vincent me no Vincent memos. That's yet another attempt by Fay to pretend he's the last great commissioner. He "encouraged the the teams to crack down on them." He did? What he do, beyond the memo? Your proof of "cheating" as a state of mind is woefully thin. I've never seen a player take a shot of xylocaine before the game, either. Doesn't mean he's cheating, although it's a drug that allows him to perform. And do you seriously believe the fans gave a damn? I'd like a whole raft of evidence on that one. The stands were filled in '98. The AP locker-snooper got buried in the public mind -- and rightly, too.
You believe that "cheating" is pretty much anything that doesn't conform to your own artificial set of parameters. Fine. But it's not the correct meaning of the term. Words are what we do. They mean something. They don't mean whatever we'd like them to mean.

 

Anyone who uses the term "haters" loses the argument.

That is all.

 

It's going to be a genuine panic when the medical chickens start coming home to roost in another decade or so.

Poetic justice.

 

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

 

I love it when we agree, Montezuma.

Makes me all warm and fuzzy...

 

warm and fuzzy hater.

 

The steroid deal is just an added bonus.

 

absofuckinglutely.

 

Hey, you gotta have some perks...

 

Yeah, and Mark McGwire, the Great White Roid Boy, is certainly riding that tidal wave of public approval, as the national disgust with Bonds mounts.

 

And what if they don't?
What if most of these guys live long and happy lives?
By this standard. we should make the NFL illegal.

 

Generally it will take longer than a decade for the medical issues to take root. And the time also depends on the type of drugs used, the cycles followed, whether the athlete abused the illegal drugs, etc. And we all know individuals react differently to drugs so some might see only mild issues or perhaps none at all.

But some/many abusers will play the price. Sad, but the trade-off is one they were willing to risk.