Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, we are again talking about steroids in baseball during Spring Training. We have spent the past several years discussing the issue, and how it has tainted America's Pastime. Many, especially those in the media, believe that this is the darkest era baseball has ever faced.
And yet, baseball's popularity is at an all time high. Fan attendance has never been higher. So clearly steroids are not keeping the fans away, regardless of whether they care about it or not.
This begs the bigger question, do steroids really matter? Isn't it the point of sports to be entertaining? Aren't more homeruns, 100 mph fastballs, and more stolen bases more entertaining? So, in effect, aren't steroids making the game better?
Or have steroids simply helped make sports more highlight driven, as opposed to being pure and something we all want our kids to be involved with?
Check out the discussion below......
And yet, baseball's popularity is at an all time high. Fan attendance has never been higher. So clearly steroids are not keeping the fans away, regardless of whether they care about it or not.
This begs the bigger question, do steroids really matter? Isn't it the point of sports to be entertaining? Aren't more homeruns, 100 mph fastballs, and more stolen bases more entertaining? So, in effect, aren't steroids making the game better?
Or have steroids simply helped make sports more highlight driven, as opposed to being pure and something we all want our kids to be involved with?
Check out the discussion below......
Original Story:
You can't rationalize cheating by saying it makes the game more exciting. It's still cheating and that's wrong every single time.