Major League Druggies

You'd think a billion dollar organization who's major event is called "The World Series" would at least have the decency to at least meet the international standard in drug testing. Although MLB is getting better with their testing (congressional hearings have that effect), their still lower then international competitions, such as the Olympics.

But in recent light of all the stimulated growth in professional baseball, and records (such as Home runs, pitching, etc) that can damn never be proved anymore. Add to that, we still can't test, and will never be able to test for every different type of enhancement out there. Perhaps its time we embrace performance enhancement drugs. What better way to level the playing field for all. That is, after all, what our superstars are trying to tell us; "I use to get ahead, and so should you." However, if we just dropped all this testing crap, then we can really enjoy sports, knowing there's less cheating. It'll be like that fantasy Gatoraid commercial, where the future basketball hoops are 20ft high...and moving. Now that's entertainment. People can ask exciting questions like, what will the next enhancement bring to the sport. And the surge in the pharmaceutical economy would be tremendous.

Course, the argument that only certain folks can afford these enhancement drugs, hence excluding a large sum under-privileged folks. Well, this isn't really true. If shows like Cops, Weeds, and The Wire or undergraduate & public school taught us anything...its that drugs are everywhere for all the American masses. So I simply don't buy that excuse. If anything, it would make all that expensive training a bit more irrelevant. But hey...at least we know they're all back at the level.

One last thought on this. Performance enhancement drugs go well beyond sports. Of all things, take band solo competitions, or folks that present in business. Right now...today, its perfectly acceptable for participants to take drugs that will calm their nerves while in front of the judges. Hence the edge over the dude sweating buckets. The question becomes...do we label them as cheating..which we don't...or do we embrace the drugs, like so many other genres already.