Do you care about athletes doping?

[4est_4est_Gump]

The big dopes.


Why? Why not? Do you even follow these sports?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

As long as my team eviscerates yours and we're not caught cheating, who cares, right?

 

[Adre]

I follow baseball and the Tour de Frogs, which seem to be the most affected sports. Since it is about strength and stamina, you'd think basketball, football and soccer would be more likely than baseball to be a hotbed of doping.

Cheating is rampant, whether it's Wall Street, college testing, or sports. Sadly, it is ingrained in our culture. So it renders records and numbers almost meaningless.

 

[run_silent]

It seems to be they are going to do it anyway.Sad but true. Why should the cheaters get an advantage?

Make then all legal and even the playing field.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As long as my team eviscerates yours and we're not caught cheating, who cares, right?

...

My team is the Chiefs. You do not need to dope; management spends most of its time stoned out of its gourd.

I follow baseball and the Tour de Frogs, which seem to be the most affected sports. Since it is about strength and stamina, you'd think basketball, football and soccer would be more likely than baseball to be a hotbed of doping.

Cheating is rampant, whether it's Wall Street, college testing, or sports. Sadly, it is ingrained in our culture. So it renders records and numbers almost meaningless.

Do they not already have more established testing procedures?

Maybe the lack of it in prior years explains OJ.

It seems to be they are going to do it anyway.Sad but true. Why should the cheaters get an advantage?

Make then all legal and even the playing field.

There is an argument then that those unwilling to take a chance with their long-term health will be ruled out as top athletes, but, I wonder, is this not also true without the drugs; some of these sports take a tremendous toll on the body.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I don't dope, Dope!!!​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Boomer's not aging all that well...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That's Vlad's Siberian kitten.


Okay, off to do some IRL shit.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'll be back once my lesson is over...


I'm teaching the big dope not to dope, just to train.


Best of luck!

 

[JudasIscariot]

Yes of course

If it's banned then why should somebody gain an advantage illegally?

Isn't that why hard work and a lifetime of training is so revered, if it was allowed for everyone to dope then fair enough but not when it's banned.

The problem is that more athletes dope than were told, plenty of it has been covered up in the past like Carl Lewis for example.

The make scapegoats out of people while others get a wide berth

 

[kbate]

Baseball - Yes, because the stadiums are not designed for the supermen with giant bats with wispy handles. Move the fences back to 500 feet instead of 330 and then I won't care. Drugs make the game boring as it becomes just "long ball" and nobody bothers with bunts, base stealing, pickoffs or anything but try to hit the homer.

Football - No, because we want hugely muscled supermen on the line and we want superfast receivers and defensive backs and we want to hear the bones crunch when each play starts. Quarterbacks should be able to throw 60 yards and field goal kickers should score from 80.

Hockey - No, because hockey doesn't matter except to a few very odd ducks in weird towns and anything they can do to make it matter would be good for the sport.

Golf - No, because no matter how strong you are, if you miss the perfect swing you aren't gaining from strength.

Bike racing - who cares, they've got one race that matters and its in France, let them dope away - equal field for all.

Horse racing - Yes, I care because the life of the horse is at risk when they cannot feel their injuries and continue to drive as hard as they are capable.

Running/field sports - Yes, because of the health aspect for the athlete.

 

[Saint Peter]

spuermen

You spelled sperm wrong.

Hockey - No, because hockey doesn't matter except to a few very odd ducks in weird towns and anything they can do to make it matter would be good for the sport.

You are dead to me.

 

[kbate]

You spelled sperm wrong.



You are dead to me.

Not my fault your sport is only viewed for the potential of a good fistfight. Much like NASCAR is only as good as the crash. Drugs would help NASCAR also, because then the crashes would come sooner and we'd see less boring driving in circles.

 

[Saint Peter]

I am not a big race fan but I did go to the Top Fuel drag races in Denver this year.

Seeing a car go from 0 to (almost) 320mph in a quarter mile was very cool. Seeing the mechanics tear the engine down and rebuild it in time for the next race was amazing.

 

[Josiyummi]

Yes I care. They are role models for kids everywhere, and setting very bad examples.

I don't care what it does for the sport, or outcome of a game.
But kids are being influenced by these idiots.

 

[Earl]

Yes I care. If the sport organizations were serious they would ban for life any play found using PHD's. Baseball has banned one of the best players ever to play the game for betting why shouldn't it be the same for using drugs or any other ban substance. Just MHO.

 

[Beco]

The big dopes.


Why? Why not? Do you even follow these sports?

I kind of do care. Although when news breaks of cheating, it doesnt impact me eithe way. But the big problem is, when a guy hits 40 homeruns, or runs the fastest time in the 100 meter, ya wonder....so in a sense, its ruined sports.

 

[Beco]

Yes I care. If the sport organizations were serious they would ban for life any play found using PHD's. Baseball has banned one of the best players ever to play the game for betting why shouldn't it be the same for using drugs or any other ban substance. Just MHO.

PED's, right? Most players can't even come close to a PHD

 

[rosco rathbone]

not really

I kind of enjoy the spectacle of a battle of cyborgs and their medical teams being presented to the proles as a contest of purely human qualities of will, strength, etc.

 

[eagleyez]

couldnt care a wit. These guys forget Lyle Alzedo, covered in tumors on the cover of S.I. He was dead in 3 weeks. This shit is harsh.

I like baseball but Im a College Hoops fan and being originally from the hub of the universe, I bleed Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots. The Hernandez murder case surrounding the Pats will, I think, spur them into a great year.

But, no, let these cowards take this stuff. It all comes out in the end.

 

[renard_ruse]

...you'd think... soccer would be more likely... to be a hotbed of doping.

Yeah, because its so hard to jog around in circles, then stop, jog around in circles some more, and occasionally kick a ball a few feet.

 

[Wok]

The big dopes.


Why? Why not? Do you even follow these sports?

No. I do not care what they do.

 

[Saint Peter]

Wok!

You fucker!!

 

[Angeline]

Yes I care. They are role models for kids everywhere, and setting very bad examples.

I don't care what it does for the sport, or outcome of a game.
But kids are being influenced by these idiots.

That's the main argument for me. Then again in the early days of baseball drinking was rampant and anyone could get a nice cold coca-cola, so maybe it's just the culture keeping up with the times. And now we have 24/7 news to alert us all to how we should feel about it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Angeline!

You fucker!