I hear he prefers the MLB allow market forces to work their magic and allow players to take whatever performance enhancing drugs they want... This will effectively requireme all players to max out their steroid intake to stay competitive, and destroy the possibility of long, rich careers like those of Nolan Ryan and Curt Schilling. Players will burn out months after their peaks, and teams will discard them carelessly for the next up-and-coming powerhouse.
I wonder how many Ron Paul attack dogs there are out there, and if we can DoS them by all saying bad things about Ron Paul all the time.
I wonder how many Ron Paul attack dogs there are out there, and if we can DoS them by all saying bad things about Ron Paul all the time.
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Not impressed.
I of course know nothing about sports. But I do wonder why this is Congress's job.
So if the product would be better without steroiods presumably MLB would itself choose to regulate steroid use? Unfortunately home runs appear to sell tickets and strategy and pitching don't seem to actually be something fans are interested in.
The more the players are perceived to be dependent on drugs for their performance, the less they are exemplars for the watchers to draw inspiration from. So the product (baseball) would be better without the public awareness of steroids, which is correlated with the lack of steroids, but not identical.
2: Infamy generates interest for you in the short term, at the expense of respect for the sport as a whole. A team might decide not to look too hard for player drug abuse because it decides that bad publicity is still publicity. They get +$2 and everyone gets -$1. If everyone does that, then you all end up worse off, but if you think you can be the only one....
3: Sports is a dream. It doesn't matter how poor you are, you can dream about making it to the Big Leagues. If the big leagues require that you rot your brain to jello, the dream losses some of its luster.
I haven't noticed any other professional sport needing government help to administer a drug policy. Is baseball really that strapped for cash that they can't figure this out on their own?
This is a response to a friend who had a content-ful attack on Ron Paul in his livejournal attacked by rude people who had never been seen in his LJ before. The explanation - the Ron Paul folks crawl blogs and the web in general to watch for mentions of their leader and descend on anyplace that tries to talk about him in a negative light.
This is purely a quick attempt to add workload to them, since I don't think I like such tactics. A mention of Ron Paul is not an invitation to random strangers to pile on abuse.