I happened to be watching that NFL show on HBO for about a minute last night (the one with Costas, Collinsworth, Marino, Carter) and they said the NFL steroid policy was a proven success. With a straight face, Cris Carter said that only four people in the NFL were caught using steroids last year. This with random testing of every team every week.
You have eyes. Why do you think the number of 300-lb. lineman has increased 100-fold in the past ten years? Evolution?
It does not take a cynic to claim that the NFL policy doesn't work, it's just common sense. The NFL steroid policy is considered a success because the players have effectively figured out how to trick the testers.
Phil Pepe is definitely on the pro-Pinstripe side of the spectrum:
"It’s naïve to think that Jason Giambi is alone here, the only liar, the only cheater, but he made a critical mistake. He got caught. He didn’t have the guile or the skill to tap dance around the questions put to him by a federal grand jury as others did, and he’s the one left twisting in the wind.
Giambi is baseball’s worst nightmare, but who among us is without sin in this drama? Not baseball, which exploited him. Not his employers, who gave him that fat contract. Not fans, who cheered him. Not sportswriters, who extolled his accomplishments. Not his teammates, some of whom admitted knowing of his steroid use, even injecting himself through his pants leg on a team flight when he was a member of the Oakland A’s."
I don't think I'm to blame for anything just because I cheered Giambi. I also don't know if it's fair to blame everyone who ever met the guy or knew about his steroid use.
I'm just not quite understanding why the public feels comfortable focusing their scorn on Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds.
Much of the commentary is so obviously hypocritical that it's pointless to point out the hypocrisy. I'm more interested in why the general public hates Bonds and Giambi so much while they don't seem to hate all the others cheats and liars.
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