Bonds Hits Number 756

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

They don't win by default on hypocrisy, because the two aren't even comparable in this matter.

1) I'm not the one that compared them, Bond was. I was responding to HIS comparison, so please jump on him as well, Mr. Salty Pants.

2) While Actors don't have a Hall of Fame, they do have awards shows, just like the Grammy's, etc.... where a grammy was revoked from Milli Vanilli because they cheated. So I guess even the Grammy's have more integrity than Major League baseball...

Athletics and entertainment are comparable on some level, because they are based on performance. Whether its hitting a ball or playing King Lear, you are performing. Right now I feel that Baseball is a fraud, and will be a fraud, while it tries and convince us its legitimate sport.

Pro wrestling is simulated sport (and unlike what you claim, they do need to be very strong to do what they do. I don't how anyone could think that you wouldn't need to be strong and fit to throw other people around for 30 minutes straight) and does not claim to be anything but a fraud. Therefore, there is no betrayal of trust when it is revealed that steroids are used.

That is where my comparison lies.


Bond, as for steroids not being illegal when all the homeruns were being hit...

the US Congress approved the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990, and accordingly the anabolic steroids are placed into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

http://www.anabolicsteroidsguide.com...c-steroid.html

They have been illegal for quite some time, and have been abused by MLB for quite some time as well. All those home runs, all those records breaking, and it was all a joke.

I have a better question, though, and that is why would anyone believe that steroids are out of baseball? Sure, they "test" them, but what does that mean? WWE "tests" their wrestlers too. That doesn't mean they're clean, and MLB has a long history of decieving their public. It took CONGRESS to put things right again, why wouldn;t they go wrong again shortly afterward?

I'll watch baseball again when Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame and Barry Bonds is banned from baseball.