Thursday, February 14, 2013

Cheating

I can't accept the "everyone is cheating" and we need to accept it and move on with respect to PEDs in sports.

I want - at the very least - the illusion of fairness.  You wouldn't watch games if they were rigged.  The uneven use/rules related to PEDs and other forms of performance enhancement, are, in a way, rigging the entire sport.

And then on the frightening level, all you need to do is whatManny Pacquiao squirm on the ground after getting KO'd by a juiced Marquez to know why collectively PEDs is a problem.  When an NFL player gets his neck broken on the field by a guy who plays like Ronnie Lott, but is 40 lbs heavier and a couple ticks faster, we're going to regret taking any sort of cynical attitude toward the drug use.

I can get behind things that help recovery time, etc, but there has got to be plenty of knowledge out there about the negative long term effects of certain things and we surely need to figure out a system that everyone understands and can abide by.

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