That's a pretty bold take, the most important thing that many people seem to forget is "Baseball is entertainment."  Baseball players have never been holier than thou, nor should they be seen as that way.  However, they are seen as role models just like any other athlete, like it or not.  But baseball has always had a history of cheating, and the players are the reason for that. It is in the business of entertainment first, and in business, ethics are usually non-existent.

While I agree it's not as crazy as some might think, but it's never something I could go for being a fan of baseball.

Michael Phelps just wants pot legalized, man.

cant control it ... legalize it ... how sad.

 Pretty funny thats for sure, but if they are serious, they are crazy!

The only problem with legalizing steriods is use among teenagers.  Hey, I believe that if a man wants to destroy his body, then he has the right to do so because it is his body.  The governement should not be able to tell someone what they can and can not put into their body as long as it does not harm other people (aka why some drugs are illegal people become addicted, and rob people for cash for more drugs).  However, to my point.  The problem with legalizing steriods is the damage it can do both a teenager's body and mind.  First, most teenagers to do not understand the amount of damage it does to a growing body.  In fact, steriods do more damage to a teenager's body, than an adult because a teenagers body is still growing.  For example, if a teenager does steriods, and he was 6'0 180 before benching 225 pounds and squating 315, but after a cycle of roids was 6'0 200 benching 300 and squating 450.  This is too much weight for a teenager to be lifting (I know this from a personal experience.  I never used steriods, but used subtances that were boderline, and was 19 years old 185 pounds benching 355, deadlifting 425, and squating 525.  A year later I tore my left chest muscle, and fraturced two verbrate in my back L4 and L5 from deadlifting, and I needed a double spinal fusion) and puts too much pressure on their muscles and joints, thus leading to future injuries of their body parts, not counting the damage the roids do internally to their organs.  Furthermore, when a teenager uses roids it really changes the chemicals in their brain.  It is already enough that they are going through puberty, and when you add the affects of roids to the chemicals in their brain it can turn into a lethal cocktail.

Please no one try to argue, well it will be regulated, and only adults can recieve them.  Isn't acholol regulated?  Aren't cigaretts regulated?  

Amen...remember that children look up to athletes in all sports.My father always said "do as i say, not as i do."
Now, i'm sure baseball will turn their back on the A-Rod story, and say that only 104 players tested positive, 104 out of 800+players, no big deal.
It's a big deal when kids know that the players are not clean....the kids, it's that simple...

steroids destroy life...and they kill...Ken Camanitti, Lyle Alzado.

Come on, can you, would you, could you look your kids in the eye, and tell them steroids are O.K.

The truth, plain and simple...streoits kill people, and they do not belong in the game of baseball, period.

Let me first say, I do not agree with  anything you have said and it appears you have a laymans understanding of testestorone.So keeping steroids illegal keeps it out of the hands of kids like cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs? If it exist teens will get it!!!  Whether it is legal or illegal, when a person wants something it can be found. One last comment, cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines kill people, actually testestorone is part of a life extensions science and not at all a killer when prescribed by a doctor and administered by a doctor. It is used on A.I.D.S. patients to combat wasting and given to men as a replacement therapy. Lyle Alzado, virtually overdosed on steroids, the same could happen with an over the counter drugs. Drugs, all drugs CAN kill if abused. It was abuse of the drug that killed Alzado, not the drug. Hell you can abuse asprin and it will cause death!!!!

First, the purpose of having steriods illegal is to make it harder for not only teenagers, but for anyone to aquire them.  If they were legal, then teenagers would have an easier time obtaining them.  The problem with this is the potential for abuse.  Isn't better to make it harder/illegal for a teenager to aquire steriods, which when abused can cause serious health and mental problems?  

Did you even understand the point of my post?  You mention that "testestorone is  part of a life extensions science and not at all a killer when prescribed by a doctor...".  The point of my post was that when steriods are used by a teenager to get bigger and stronger either for sports or body building, then it can cause serious health problems.  Your point that steriods that are prescribed by doctors for people with AIDS or other health problems such as recovering from surgery are closely monitored has nothing to do with what I was discussing. The doses of  Androgens (the family of steriod used to increase testestorone) are not nearly as strong, nor taken as long, compared to how body builders and atheltes use them.  I never mentioned that steroids should not be used for medical purposes. I stated that they should remain illegal so that people whose sole purpose for using them is to increase their muscle mass either for sports or body building.

legalizing steroids means abusing it...one's become liar and....liar liar go to hell

Where does it stop ... right now these people are messing with the chemistry of their bodies. What happens when they decide to just cut their arms off and get augmented arms instead made from metal or some super alloy. What happens when they decide to augment their sight for better hand-eye coordination. You basically have to create 2 leagues ... one for enhanced people the other for non-enhanced.