Rick_Garcia's Blog

Rick,

Great blog guy! Yes, we should all be concerned about what the athletes are up to. Some will foolishly argue that it is a private matter, but they forget that there are young impressionable kids who look up to these guys. Parents do control the way kids grow up, but not everything is in the parents' control, as we all know. You just can't control kids 24/7. I'm sure that most parents will discuss things like drugs and steroids with their kids, but there are always the ones who hear and then ignore their parents.

Let's hope this intervention sends a message to anyone who is thinking about doing something foolish to get away from steroids.

Cheers!

"Mr. E" from Cypress (yes, you know who!)

I agree that steroids must be kept away from our kids. It's tough to do this when some parents are willing to cheat to help their kids make the cut on the high school teams by getting bigger and stronger by using dangerous steroids. I see what the pros do as wrong too, but its tough to police it and nearly impossible although that is changing with cheaper testing being available.
It does bother me however when people like the person above want to cloud the issue by pointing so some other injustice like the 'Hall of Fame'. Come on, let's get focus here. We can't solve every world problem by putting them on a sliding scale. The Hall of Fame thing, has nothing to do with our kids on steroids. People are going to cheat and they always will. We can hope for better and cheaper testing and penalize those that fail. Laws without consequences are almost useless.