Rafael Palmerio is back from his suspension for taking steroids.
I think that the powers that be of baseball knew that McGuire, Sosa, Barry Bonds, and others were "doing something" and they didn't care because of the balls that were leaving the park, which made the game more exciting.
If grown men want to take drugs that may shorten their lives, shrink their testicles, and possibly cause depression, so be it. Let them do it. I don't care. Just make it legal for people 21 and above and let the pro sports of baseball, football, and basketball deal with it.
Congress shouldn't be involved in this and they wouldn't be involved except that it gives those pompus media hounds a chance to have their mugs on television.
The degree to which performance enhancing substances exist in MLB, and pro sports in general, is far greater than the public's ability to digest. Of special import should be who's zooming whom when folks talk about athletes 'cheating'.
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Posted by: MIB at August 11, 2005 10:49 PM