Do you prefer Natural Ability (Own) or Enhanced Ability (Steroids)?

[3arod13]

Looking over many past threads about steroid use, some are against it and some don't have a problem with it.

Myself, I prefer natual ability.

What do you prefer?

[David]

As a sportswriter recently said, "Barry Bonds is the best player ever who used steroids."

[panthrotc]

since i was a fan of Big Mac since 1987 , i prefer chemically enhanced.

[panthrotc]

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[bigtruck260]

I must admit I agree...

I was at almost every home game in the summer of '98. Busch Stadium was NEVER that electric. McGwire had everyone in STL interested in the American Pastime. People who HATED baseball were on the bandwagon.
I saw McGwire hit at least 30 homers that summer...many to places that had never been hit before (Upper facade in center, UD in left center).
From the day we got Mac in a Cards uniform, myself and the ballplayers I knew had suspicions of steroid use with him. WE DID NOT CARE. He was a freak, so what? He was hitting balls like that as a rookie...I never thought steroids made Mac a better hitter...they shortened his career if anything.

Dave

[3arod13]

More curious to see, say if MLB was considering making steriods and/or enhancers legal for ball players to use, would you prefer natural ability or would you like to see players use things to enhance their power?

[David]

I agree with the President of the Tour de France when he said, "I have no interest in watching a pharmeceuticals race."

I like watching humans compete. I'm not interested in seeing which steroid hit the longest home run and which blood transfusion came in first.

[David]

If baseball allows players to artificially enhance their stats with drugs, why shouldn't baseball just give up the ghost and pad the stats statistically. If a player hits a 500 home run, MLB might as well add 20 percent and say he hit a 600 home run. If a player hits 40 home runs in a season, why shouldn't MLB just automatically add 20 percent and write down that he hit 48? How's would this be any less artificial than adding 20 percent by human growth hormone?

[David]

Hows this for a compromise? MLB allow players to use any drugs they want, but automatically cuts everyone's stats by 50 percent? This way players can have the joys of HGH booster shots and shrunken testicles and fans can have realistic statistics.

[David]

The important thing to note is that most MLB players wish there was some way to completely eliminate steroids/HGH/et al from baseball forever, as they are well aware how potentially dangerous and perhaps even deadly these drugs are.