Steroids in baseball question

Tom House was an interesting fellow.

 

Duke Snider is on the record admitting the took an occasional greenie. His career ended in 1965. Of course, the greenies they had were basically like two cans of Red Bull.

 

I know that Nolan Ryan has a lot of possibilities, but if he were to come up dirty, I completely give up.
Never again would I watch one pitch or swing of baseball, and I love baseball.
Never again.

 

All sports are dirty to some degree.

Watch an NBA game from 1978 to what they are doing today. And do not give me a "hours in the gym" bullshit answer.

Shit look at the builds of rappers or the empty heads doing reality TV. Watch The Duel or whatever it's called and tell me those kids are not doing something.

 

That's the big problem. Players have been using for years. Sometime in the early 1990s, the chemistry got good enough to upset the balance.

 

Well, there's a huge difference between taking greenies (some of which were their wives' prescribed diet pills) and taking something that's going to make you order your shirts three sizes bigger.

 

The difference being effectiveness.

 

Greenies had the same short-term effect as three cups of black coffee. Players took greenies to wake up, recover from hangovers.

Steroids radically change your body and potentially make you a different player.

 

I'd feel sad if it was true of either Ruth or Ripkin.

 

So, certain levels of cheating are acceptable, but not others?

 

Even if we're assuming that players back then only took greenies, which I think is far from true, I don't see the difference. Stuff that makes you play better is stuff that makes you play better.

 

What's your definition of cheating as it relates to baseball?