I suppose it's unrealistic to expect young men to resist the lure of ungodly amounts of money, and therefore to indulge in whatever dishonest tactics it takes to get that money. Still, I'm soooo disappointed in them
There's an old saying "money ruins sport".And it really does.I do not follow much professional sports anymore because it seems there are no true rivalries anymore.These athletes are all a bunch of multimillionaires,win or lose they still make a fortune.---I know this is not the direct topic of your thread,but indirectly there is a relationship to this all.
I don't even consider them athletes anymore... more like mutant freaks of science. I think it's interesting to note that back in the late 1890's when bicycle racing was the most popular professional sport in America, Heroin and Morphine were the performance enhancing drugs of choice. (sometimes in combination with cocaine. Speedball! oh yeah!) ZW eace:
I wonder if that made their balls shrink, too. I'm going to a game at Coors Stadium in Denver this weekend with my sister. We're gonna sit in the sunshine with our tight jeans and halter tops and look at cute guys. Last time I went to a game in Phoenix, I got caught on "kiss cam". The entire stadium saw me kissing this guy sitting next to me that I didn't even know. Sports are such fun
even the ball parks themselves seem to be on steroids.impersonal,unfriendly,uninteresting places.fenway and wrigley are still there and a few of the aaa parks.the greats of broadcasting are mostly gone with the exceptions of some good radio coverage but it's mostly in your face leave nothing for the viewer to discern.oh there's exceptions of course but overall it's not a good situation in sports.someone asks me about sports today and you'll get my opinion.i love sports too much to say everything is fine.interesting story about dopeing at the 1904 olympic marathon in st. louis,mo. u.s.a. also.an interesting olympics overall and i have done much research on those olympics and the related worlds fair that year.
Oh, have you tried a game in San Francisco? I love their ballpark. Of course, anything would be better than Candlestick, but it's really nice. My father used to take me to games at Candlestick when I was a little girl. We would have to leave by around the 7th inning cause my little hands would be frozen solid. I even met Stretch McCovey once. I asked him to hit a home run for me, but he didn't do it. I've been mad at him ever since.
I agree,but I'll go ever further,they should not even be considered as record holders--they cheated.As far as I'm concerned they hold no records. Who-ever broke the record before them should have the title of record holder reinstated.-----I also agree with alot of what waukegan said.And nowadays it seems so many ballparks,and other venues of prefessional sports have a corporate name,and that is UNacceptable.
i still take in a game now and then.i guess i have such vivid feelings of baseball from the 50's-60's.the excitement of going to games.watching the black and white games on t.v..of the old stadiums and the players and managers of that era................reading books on baseball histories when i should have been doing homework.but what did i care.it was baseball.time travelling back to the days of cobb and ruth and learning about the greats of the negro leaugue and what a shame alot of people didn't see all the greats there was to see.and i am actually a fan of indoor baseball .the astrodome etc..so i'm as much at fault as anyone.some of the new parks are kind of interesting....baltimore san francisco etc.the old ball parks are a thing of the past i suppose but like alot of things in life i miss.baseball's a great game.it's basically the same as ever..............the corporate name thing bothers me alot too.i liked the old names.there was a friendliness to them....i suppose free agency had alot to do with players becomeing multi millionaires....it used to be a player spent most of 20-25 years with the same team earning the same as their fans earned and i think that was part of their popularity.......this is a bit of a tangent but i don't understand the need for rainouts in baseball.i think the game should be played regardless of the weather.safety concerns for the fans perhaps but football is played in all weather .a reason i don't like domed football stadiums.
When are you too old to wear halter tops? Whenever you start looking bad in them. And not one day sooner!
Ha! Maybe so. He was a very nice young man and he just happened to be sitting next to us. He was explaining to me how you throw a slider. And when the stadium people did the "kiss cam" thing between innings, they saw us talking, assumed we were together, and focused on us. Well, we didn't want to disappoint anyone ... Damn right!
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the use of steroids or the new terms as of late "performance enhancement drugs." Its part of sports...athletes have been using them for many many decades. Too many misconceptions out there - the general public fails to see anything past the doom and gloom of the media hype over this. You can take an ungodly amount of steroids, work your ass off and get huge in the gym and if you were a crappy hitter....guess what? he'll still be a crappy hitter. They still have to hit the ball.
What misconceptions? What doom and gloom? You consider cheating to be "media hype"? Steroids are against the rules because they give an unfair advantage, just like putting vaseline on the ball. Are you saying it's ok for pitchers to doctor the baseball? Bad logic. We're not talking about people off the street, we're talking about players who were already good and they got better artificially. We're talking about players who added enough distance to make the difference between an out and a ball over the fence.
I agree.--Another analogy could be something like making the baseball bat 3 times as wide.--Alot easier to hit home-runs with that way.
the misconception on what these drugs do. majority of baseball players aren't taking them to get bigger. yes, that may be a bi-prouduct, as well as getting stronger, but its not the main goal, yet those are the only players who get dragged in. the public wanted to see more HRs...thats what they gave us and now we are persecuting them... yet the majority of players take these performance enhancement drugs for the recovery capabilities times change..rules change. hopefully sooner this whole mess abotu steroids will be over and people can take whatever the they want to take its not bad logic. what your talking about is taking a select few from the pool of steroid users who were already great hitters before using and then hit more HRs after using. thats cherry picking. if what you say is true, then where are the .400 hitters nowadays...how about breaking dimaggios 56 game hitting streak? theres a whole host of reasons why baseball is better today than it was yesteryear and it hardly has to do with steroids
And to add,I hardly watch baseball.However I seriously doubt Barry Bonds would have broken the home-run record if he was drug-free.The same goes for Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa.--And the same could be said for ALL other pro-sports when it comes to records broken by athletes on steroids.
i'm trying to think who the last player to hit .400 w/o looking it up. ted williams i think...ty cobb did it a few times.some players have come close.....56 games in a row is possible but man ...wheeew...i'm a fan of the "dead ball" era....i'd like to see a plexiglass wall up so that the ball would stay in play.inside the park homeruns would be fun to see.it'll never happen though.....o.k. i just looked it up almost 70 years ago now in 1941 williams hit .406....dimaggio's 56 game streak was that same year?.........it's true drug use was used for decades in sports but also feel it is the high salaries that are to blame for the wide spread steroid use in recent years.i do respect other's opinions though.they might even be right.conroversies certainly are not new either.the 1919 world series,tight fisted owners reigning control over the players and managers,racial segregation,pete rose.well this post i think is out of the park for going off topic again.
When you know there is a good probability that there are players cheating on both sides, it makes the game seem pointless. Watching it and caring who "wins" seems worse than pointless. It's almost like they are making fools of the fans. To me, winning a tainted game means nothing. All the scores, standings, and records are little more than illusions, and ink on a page.
