With all the talk about the upcoming Jose Canseco testimony before the US Congress, I have decided to repost an earlier article I wrote concerning the subject of using performance enhancers.
Originally posted July 9, 2004
Is using performance enhancers, cheating?
I was watching the qualifying rounds for the US Olympic track team. The subject came up about the number of athletes participating that were under suspicion for the use of performance enhancers.
One of the commentators said something about how it is only six out of 1000 athletes that are in question. He went on to talk about how track and field was gonna have to go through this cleansing process. The other commentator came back with how the cheaters had to go.
I began to ponder if the use of performance enhancers is really cheating.
Apparently the whining ass under performers are leading the fight and have made this the thought in sports today. Some of the pro leagues even the Olympic committee has barred the use of performance enhancers. All under the belief, that using performance enhancers is cheating.
This is the stupidest shit I have heard! Hell, they may as well say the weight training, toning, and dieting that gives some athletes advantage over others is cheating as well!
I remember when they were fucking with that white boy, I think his name was McGuire and Sammy Sousa about using performance enhancers. As if that's the reason they were hitting homers.
Like targeted weight training, the enhancers may help to develop the muscle to give you more power with the swing, but it is not a guarantee that every swing of the bat will be a home run. Hitting homers is a talent. It is the skill of aiming your swing so that it will impact a speeding blur at an angle of projectory such that it will travel + or - 15 degrees of the batter and land several hundred feet away. It requires hand and eye coordination and it requires heart!
For me I believe professional athletes should use performance enhancers. I fully support anything an athelete can do that will keep them from over exerting their bodies. They take a brutal beating for the sport and for our entertainment. I see it as a conscientious health choice. I feel these athletes have made a RESPONSIBLE choice.
They have families, children and spouses. When the sport has used them up and thrown them away their families will be there. Their families will often watch them suffer with life long injuries and pain. If that enhancer means that athlete can perform at the high quality we expect from our athletes, lengthen their career, and when he or she retires they are still in good health, we should not be taking a reactive prohibitive approach. We should as an educated and scientific culture take time to perform studies and find out what the actual affects of performance enhancers are or are not.
Are we also saying that people who use performance enhancers for sex are cheating sex?
If you a limp dick and can't fuck and the only reliable hard on you get is with viagara, look out cause they'll be outlawing your cheating ass next!
