GETTING DRUGS OUT OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL AND BACK INTO SCHOOLS WHERE THEY BELONG — by Steve Nadis
Major League Baseball is getting tough on drugs, increasing the penalties for the use of steroids and amphetamines. The U.S. Congress took an active role in all this, essentially forcing the sport to adopt more stringent policies. But wait a minute? Why is Congress so worked up over performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball when it’s done so little to curb the use of performance-degrading (and sometimes life-ending) drugs in our nation’s schools? Is there something wrong with our priorities? Is baseball really more important than the health and wellbeing of our children? Evidently so. They don’t call it the “national pastime” for nothing. In case you haven’t noticed, “the three r’s” are no longer reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic; they’re roids, reds, and roofies.
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zardoz says:
dear snake
ijust come over from visiting mrs monicas blog about her son josh, thru windfallwomans blog,
wrote my thoughts over there
but in ww blog i read yor comment "THAT HE AND OTHER SOLDIERS IN IRAQ ARE TRUE PATRIOTS"
REALLY….
Well according to THORNDIKE & BARNHARTS dictionary
copyright 1976 by doubleday &company inc.
a patriot is:
a person who loves his country and gives it loyal support.
patriotic is:
loving ones country: a patrioc soldier.
showing love and loyal support of ones country
(a patriotic mind anxious to be proud of its country even in litte things(H.G. WELLS) ??
patriotism:
love and loyal support of ones country:(patriotism is essential to national welfare(emory s. bogardus)
PLEASE EXPLAIN
What is so patriotic about the soldiers of one country
to fight in another….?
Who is a patriot in all of the wars
thru all of history
ever to go to a another country
and fight somebody elses war ?
Even WWII was an economic war under the falsehood
of fighting for democracy and we saw how that went
(cold war , berlin wall, civil strife,
in general a lot of suffering.
I RESPECT ALL COMMON SOLDIERS OF ALL NATIONS
THAT HAVE FOUGHT IN FOREIGN SOIL OTHER THEN THEIR OWN.
FOR REASONS .. AT TIMES UNKNONW TO THEM
or falsehoods of freedom.
(the iraq war is like me going to my neighborhood
gas station , killing the opressing owner ,
and having the employees
under new management, telling them their free to work as they please under the new rules my cousin
(the manager i appointed) gives them,
so they continue to have work, and i have a new business).
AND FROM EXPERIENCE I CAN SAY THEIR IS NOT
ONE PATRIOTIC THOUGHT ON THE INSIDE ,
OF anyone one of them
ASKING ""WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE""
WHEN THE HOOPLA SUBSIDES
""THAT WE ARE HERE TO FREE SUCH AND SUCH NATION""
and the true reasons appear as the smoke
subsides from the hoopla
"kill them all let god sort them out"
then the feeling is anything but patriotic.
SO what are we left with………
Trying to console mothers who have lost sons
consoling mothers who their sons and daughters
(sorry ladies almost forgot)
survived only to be bligheted upon by humanities
pondering diseases (or things like agent orange)
which makes all
vunrable………oh hell so whats so patriotic
shoving millions of dollars or any currency
and thousands of lives to be wasted
so a sultry few
‘worldwide can get more richer’ and wield more power,
and the rest can die patriotically for god and country .
When the real war is at home
making it a better place to live
and supporting every mrs MONICA… mother
that wants a better life for the worlds children
and her own
thats patriotism.
had to get all this of my chest and brain
———————————-zardoz
Gee, drugs in the schools is not new. It was a problem when I was in school back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Were drugs also a problem in major league baseball back then too?
Snake, great post. I am curious how you came by this knowledge having mentioned only young girls. Through my association with JA and Walt (as a runner), I haven’t seen this. But then maybe I’ve had my head in the sand.
P.S. One more thing worrying me…..since I just flunked word verification on my post again. That thing isn’t some sort of virtual IQ test, is it? Because if it is, I’m in trouble.
Fortunately my girls are still too young for this to be a concern yet. But it does seem odd to me that we seem to worry more about what chemicals baseball players are ingesting than what our kids are ingesting. That problem is not new, nor is the baseball problem new–as Jim Bouton’s book attests. What is new is that Congress has put the spotlight on the baseball issue while ignoring greater concerns that affect society as a whole. You raise some good points too Zardoz. I’ve never supported this war for a second but I blame the administration for that, not the soldiers who are risking their lives, getting hurt, or dying.
Interesting blog, Snake. I came by way of your comment on Windfall Woman’s blog about prayer for Monica’s son. You raise an interesting point. Perhaps our representatives are addressing the performance enhancing drugs in baseball issue because they can (drugs in schools is so much harder) and because baseball lags so far behind the rest of sport in this area. My issue with it is singular: that anyone ever caught using performance enhancing drugs should have all of their records so noted and that those records should be kept completely separately from those of Aaron, Maris, Mays, Ruth, et al. McGwire and Bonds don’t belong in the same set of stats. JMHO.
Hi Sophmom — Thanks for the compliment. I agree with you. It’s easier to clamp down on drug use among professional athletes than it is among our children. I suppose we could put asterisks after some names in the record books if drug use is proven. One thing I’m curious about is this: How much is performance actually enhanced by "performance-enhancing" substances? I don’t think anyone can answer that question. I may raise it in a future post…