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after bashing every one involved in this steroid scandal. and seeing the mistruths and mistakes. why do you think we as adults expect these guy's to be any different than us ? while admittedly much more exepted untruths,we have all told some. such as. i'm sick today i'm not going to work or speeding or maybe taking that gray area deduction on our taxes.
we have all been guilty of a lie or mistruth in our lives ,because we are human and we make mistakes.some will say we are not at the level of these player's. but we are the front line roll models for our youth. why should we expect more from these guy's. because they have money? because they play a game at a very high level? they are human just like us.
while it is a nice winter sport (bashing those who have tarnished the sport we love).and they are easy targets. stop and think for a minute,there are many bigger message's to be read.

we all make mistakes. we want you to own up to these mistakes don't blame them on others.

the truth will come out eventually. you have to live with that untruth, whatever it may be.or however embarrassing. much easier to deal with it now.

think and say thing's as if your mother's watching.if she wouldn't like it chances are it isn't worth doing, and probably not very nice.

nobody walks alone.think of the people effected by your actions. family, friends being dragged along.only because they are friends or family.

politics and politicians are a strange bunch.


while we are not public figures in the spot light,and some will say this is different. we at times are the biggest roll model in our kids lives. is how we deal with this scandel, telling on how we deal with our/their lives ? just something to think about.

baseball......a big business disquised as a little boys dream.

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20dad, good post. A lot of truths in your post. I will however disagree with you about the role models. The professional athlete is MUCH more of a role model to our sports minded sons that we parents are. I have no problem with that. I know I am NOT a "role" model for my son. My son would much rather be able to play basketball like MJ than fish like me. He would rather know how to hit a baseball like Big Mac than learn how to adjust the registration on a HP printer. As sons grow older their "role" and their "life" become one in the same; they are greeted with --- "Welcome to the real world" and are forced to accept who they are. Granted in most cases they become more like their parents than their "role models" but only because they could not reach the status of their role models --- but they try --- they emulate. Should athletes be held to a higher standard than me? I think so if they depend on "role model status" for their success ------ and I think they do. I will admit I took a steroid pack for some muscle spasms a few years back and no one even mentioned it. I did it to enhance my performance, a PED if you will. I have also been injected with steroids because of rotator cuff problems -- baseball related I'm sure. While I did better because of the injections and the steroid pack, I never reached the level of "role model". In this case there has to be different standards for the pro athlete.
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watched a show on national geographic the other night on steroids. a body builder who was mr america ,mr universe and all that. he took steroids for 10 years. develpoed tumors on his kidneys and liver and suffered a massive heart attack etc etc. when asked if he would do it again ? he quickly answered yes he would. he said i was number one in the world! the very top in my sport. that was just crazy to me.

what if it was one of our kid's in this scandel? just another thought

woody
i agree that the athletes of this country are watching these sports figures and seeing short cuts. an interesting fact.over 50% of steroid user's don't play sports, they just want to look good. at what cost?
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MLB players took HGh and steroids because they knew the drug policy and punishment was laughbale and knew they could get a way with it.

It is not fair that honest and clean players had to compete for jobs with juiced up drug addicts. Steroid users are no different than a crack addict. it is a drug, people need to stop making excuses for cheating and drug use. It is harmful to their bodies and watch how many MLB players start dropping dead in their early 50's like the WWF wrestlers.

The druggies ( steroid users) have NO IDEA exactly what they are taking. They come from DRUG DEALERS, they could be putting anything in their bodies.

You want to stop steroid and HGH abuse at the MLB level. Post all the 105 steroid cheats names, pretty certain no player wants to be called a cheat and have steroids chatted when they hit ot pitch.
OUt the cheaters and throw the bums out of MLB baseball forever.
fungo
i think when are kids are small or young we are their role models.they learn from us how we deal with things. now in no way do i condone the stuff these guys did. i think how we deal with it at home will be noticed by our youngster's. with compation ,understanding or just a blown out contempt for them? that may be the bigger message sent. that's my point.

and i think woody is taking hgh. lol

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