Selig: No changes to the record book (steroids)

[quaoar]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/specials/spring_training/2005/03/06/selig.steroids.ap/

PHOENIX (AP) -- Steroids or not, baseball's record book won't be changing.

Commissioner Bud Selig said Sunday that no records will be taken away from players suspected of steroid use.

"That would be unfair to do that," said before a game between the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels. "In fairness to those players, no one has been convicted of anything. And we can't turn history back.

"My job is to protect the integrity of the game. Each era, each decade has had situations where people said there were unfair advantages."

[Sandpiper]

1. Bud the enabler could care less who's roiding up

As long as the home runs keep flying out of the park.

[MrTriumph]

2. Disconnected from fan base?

The number of people who follow baseball that are miffed at steroid using players is impressive. Bud isn't addressing their concerns that these players have cheated their way into the record books. But considering we are taking about baseball, why is this no surprise?

[sendero]

3. I think..

.... folks who thinks steroids are going away are delusional.

Professional athletes have multi-million dollar careers riding on their bodies. Look around at just about any sport you want to name, and steroids are there.

You think every pro wrestler, boxer, fighter, football player, baseball player, you name it got to be huge all the sudden because of better diet and exercise? LOL.

The Olympics are also rife with illegal drug use. High school football team steroid use has been routine since the late 80s. The coaches all act like they have no idea, it is beyond ludicrous.

Test until you are blue in the face, folks will always find a new compound, a new method to beat the tests. You cannot put toothpaste back in the tube, and you can't prevent people from doing things they think are key to a scholarship or a career.

Name one drug that people want that has been effectively controlled.

I thought so.

[trotsky]

4. You are right.

High school football team steroid use has been routine since the late 80s.

That's when I was in high school, and although I didn't play, in one of my classes I sat next to a bunch of players and they frequently talked about using steroids.

And like you say, athletic success is the key to fame & fortune. Where there's a market, the product will find its way.

[quaoar]

5. Well, Bud declared the other day

that steroid use has been virtually eliminated in baseball. Supposedly only 1 or 2 percent were caught in random tests last compared to about 5 percent the year before.

Bud is about as clueless as Bush. Maybe they're kin.

[sendero]

6. Everyone in positions of responsibility..

... wants to act like they don't know, or that the problem is under control. They know the public thinks steroids are "cheating" and would like to convince the public they are not being used.

They most likely know better, but nobody wants to deliver the sad (?) reality of modern sports life.

It's our own fault that this has happened. If becoming a pro athlete wasn't a guarantee of money and fame and everything else a man could want, maybe fewer would be willing to risk their health to achieve it.