Monday, December 13, 2004

Good steroids editorial

All hail Bob Russ of the Canton Repository. The hole in my argument - that steroids are not really a big deal - is that it's not realistic to expect a majority of fans to believe that any time soon. They are a big deal. Too many people have an extreme, if uninformed and ill-considered, opinion of their influence on the game. That makes them a big deal. It's not a cheating problem but a public-relations problem.

The players, by agreeing that it's a good idea to spend a lot of team revenue on a steroids-testing bureaucracy, basically do something which is the equivalent of hiring a lot of detectives to make sure they don't smoke cigarettes or drink too much coffee. It's not a bad thing unless this cost gets passed on to the fans.

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