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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 |
Belly On Up To The Supplements, Boys -- Steroids For Everyone!
G. Pascal Zachary in today's issue of Wired News has a rational take on steroid use: regulation rather than prohibition. The fact of the matter is that banning will just cause more and nastier side effects to the game, like any other prohibition:
Imagine a world where performance enhancement was open and regulated. Instead of forcing athletes to sneak through back alleys to stay competitive, sports authorities should admit that drugs are essential - then help athletes cope with the side effects. Once legalized, drug use would still have limits, but they would be established by physicians and athletes - based on their ability to handle performance enhancers. Bad outcomes would be far less frequent if players were not forced to rely on quacks (such as the former Tower of Power bassist at the center of the baseball designer steroid scandal). Innovation in performance enhancers would accelerate in the light of day. There might even be spinoff applications that would benefit you and me.Zachary admits it's not a perfect scheme, but it's better than the ban-'em-all-let-God-sort-'em-out attitude pervasive in the game today. George Will, sycophant, in one breath gives a big wet kiss to Commissioner Seligula (" Selig has been -- baseball is a game of inches, but this is not a close call -- the greatest commissioner") and then condones unconstitutional searches as a justification for steroid testing!
The parenthesis opened in the 1990s. It must be closed to remove the cloud of suspicion that hovers over all players. Americans standing in stockings while their shoes and luggage are X-rayed at airports doubt that privacy considerations should prevent random, year-round testing, backed by serious sanctions, for illegal drugs that traduce baseball's integrity.Oh, got it. Look, George, why don't you just make it official by changing parties to one more naturally aligned to your thinking. Or, what part of
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.did you not understand?
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