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who cares… i know ATLEAST 3 people on this site that have used steroids and i would bet if you threw each one of um 100 baseballs at MLB speeds they’d be lucky to get a handfull of good hits let alone home runs.
The drugs didnt give them the skill to play the game, practice did. This is like saying that you should take away college degrees from any student that used adderall when staying up all night to study b/c they " cheated".
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that is the absolute worst analogy i have every heard. honestly. how can you make a statement like that. let me refute every single point you attempted to make:
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i dont care who took steroids on this website, it has no bearing on this argument.
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practice gives hitters the skill to square up on a ball and drive their hips through, generating power. proper technique and practice (with talent) provide a repeatable motion to hit. HOWEVER!!! steroid use and illegal performance enhancers enable a professional hit to hit HARDER and hit for greater DISTANCE. you are unintelligent if you think that barry bonds didnt have greater batspeed, or that gary sheffield didnt have freakish ability to turn his hips through and generate supernatural power when pulling the ball.
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here is how your analogy would have been correct: “This is like saying that you should take away college degrees from any student that used CHEAT SHEETS WHILE TAKING TESTS”. using steroids put pitchers, fielders, and hitters at a distinct ILLEGAL competitive advantage over everyone else. why do you fail to see this distinction?
Work out. lift waits. treat your body like an income producing asset. but doing something illegal that puts you at a competitive advantage to everyone else is CHEATING. plain and simple.
i want to get rich quick, but i dont go out and rob banks.
i wanted to get a 4.0 in school, but instead of cheating to get it, i took my 3.6 and was happy.
in high school when i played ball, i would have loved to be a power hitter. but instead, i was a singles and doubles guy, and i was happy.
bottom line is, cheaters fucking suck. if you justify cheating, you probably do it to rationalize the fact that you cheat at shit.