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Steroids In Baseball and Golf
The recent Mitchell report on the rampant use of steroids and human growth hormone in baseball has got me wondering about the extent of such things in golf. While the PGA Tour plans to start testing this next year, my guess is that it they won’t find anything. That’s because, as the Mitchell report says, steroid use is down and the largely undetectable HGH now is the tool of choice. Golfers aren’t dumb. If they’re going to use a performance-enhancing drug, they’ll use something on the cutting edge.
At the same time, I wonder if the public really cares. Fans have known with a certainty for years that baseball’s top stars were juiced. And yet the clubs keep setting attendance records. I haven’t talked to single person who is really outraged by the steroids report. Would the reaction be the same if it was found that golf’s top players were on HGH? I’d like to think people would be upset, but I’m not sure.
Any thoughts? Are you outraged by the baseball steroid scandal? Would finding out that Tiger is juiced change your opinion of him?
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I don’t like Tiger anyway, so if I found out that he had taken performance enhancing drugs it wouldn’t change my opinion of him. It would be fun to watch all the other former Tiger lovers come out against it. But they would probably make excuses for him. They do that anyway for anything he does.
As for baseball, drug use has been rampant for so many years, the outrage has worn off. I mean when Darryl Strawberry gets as many chances has he’s had, then there’s no point in objecting to it because the people in control of baseball have seemingly condoned drug use.
I am personally more outraged that baseball will allow this drug use and give players like Strawberry chance after chance, but Pete Rose, who only dealt with money-not potentially life threatening drugs, can’t get into the Hall of Fame.
If the PGA Tour comes out of the blocks serious about the testing and doesn’t allow a bunch of excuses, then I don’t think we’ll see the ho-hum attitude toward drug use that we see in baseball.
Posted by Miranda on 12/14
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