rec.sport.football.college

On Sep 7, 4:21 am, Unclaimed Mysteries
wrote:
> Plaidmoon wrote:
> > /mlb/news/story?id=3008363
>
> > Ricky Ankiel....you got some 'splaining to do! ($1 to Ricky Ricardo)
>
> > Plaidmoon
>
> The only graceful way for baseball to have dealt with this was to treat
> the issue of players on performance-enhancing drugs in much the same way
> they dealt with the spitball decades before.
>
> Declare practical, achievable milestones and a firm end date for the
> practice. Grandfathering in one player per team who could stay juiced -
> just as they grandfathered spitballers - may not be practical, but *any*
> scheme is better than the haphazard witch hunts they're doing now.
>
> With this and other problems baseball has failed to address, the game
> may not survive to the middle of the 21st century.
>
> Which is a shame for people like me who like it. Besides, it gives
> football fans who don't like it something to heap scorn upon besides soccer.
> --
Aside from a few freaks of nature and some skill players I would
guesstimate perfomance enhancing substance abuse in NFL players at
near 100%