[Dane]

If a sports organization wants to ban performanance enhancing drugs as a rule for participation, so be it. But why does the government care, and why should anybody go to jail over a personal health decision?

I don't see Bonds or Giambi going to jail. What's the use of banning the stuff if it is not going to be enforced.

Bonds and Giambi don't want to admit they take steroids, because they will, IMO, rightly be criticized that their feats and records are phony and not due to natural ability.

It is a controversy and I am one on the side that taking steroids do taint records.

Maybe they should just make two sets of records. Drug enhanced and non-drug enhanced and the arguements can go from there.

[bluefish]

I don't see Bonds or Giambi going to jail. What's the use of banning the stuff if it is not going to be enforced.

Maybe not, but someone might. The government is wasting a lot of money, investigative and prosecutorial resources that could be invested in something more important. If Baseball or the NFL or the IOC wants to do an investigation for their own purposes, fine. People here seem to be mixing up games and government.

[Jhensy]

Let's see... there's 2 MVPs with freakish bodies who ADMITTED (confessed, owned up, proof positive, said it was so) that they took steroids: Ken Caminiti and Jose Canseco.

And that guy who suddenly and bizarrely hit 50 home runs that year, Brady Anderson; wasn't he known for his freakish body?

And those guys who suddenly destroyed Maris' record (McGwire, Sosa, Bonds)...aren't all three known for their freakish bodies? (And where IS McGwire these days, anyway? I wonder what he looks like...)

And isn't is funny how the formerly freakish Jason Giambi shows up to spring training looking like a scarecrow, now that the heat is on him? Hmmm...

Asterisks for all of them.