Comments on: McGwire’s Admission Another Dagger for Fans

By: January 12, 2010: Mark McGwire; Leno-Conan; Spider-Man 4 Dead | FanSided

January 12, 2010: Mark McGwire; Leno-Conan; Spider-Man 4 Dead | FanSided — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:55:31 +0000

[...] afternoon, new Cardinals hitting coach Mark McGwire dropped a bomb on the sports world by admitting he took steroids all throughout the ’90s, even in 1998 when he and fellow man-made freak Sammy Sosa saved baseball by racing to break Roger [...]

By: Ryne Gery

Ryne Gery — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:22:21 +0000

Thanks kopper.

While the MLB had no policy, steroids are illegal in general. McGwire obviously did more than the over-the-counter supplement, otherwise he would have used that argument to come clean. He would have talked at the Congressional hearings. He was using illegal steroids. And there is clearly a moral understanding in general and in his apology that it was wrong.

Cheating is a moral thing. If a system doesn’t say something’s wrong, the participants still no what’s right and wrong. It’s obvious cheating on papers is wrong, so is using illegal supplements. It doesn’t always need to be said.

By: kopper

kopper — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:55:38 +0000

That was a great post. But I just have one question: If MLB had no steroids policy in 1998, then how was it cheating? If a school system doesn’t inform students that copying off other students’ test papers is wrong, then can they really punish those students when they do it?

MLB allowed this to happen. It’s not the players’ fault.