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It's not cheating if it isn't against the rules. If steroids were banned in baseball, I'd agree with you. Taking them in that scenario would be the same as using a corked bat or doctoring the baseball. But it's not the same. Steroids were not banned when Bonds supposedly used them. How can it be cheating to try to gain an advantage that is not outside the boundaries of the rules?
You say I'm spewing crap, but you're the one simply espousing the groupthink view. I asked you a simple question: why is there no place in sports for performance-enhancing drugs? Instead of answering the question, you simply turned around and asked me why there was. I answered you. Players who want to attain peak performance with substances that are not banned are not cheating. They are simply trying to gain an advantage (real or perceived) over their competition.
Now, care to answer my question?
the problem there is even if baseball HAD banned steroids before Barry doped, he'd have gotten away with it because the Balco stuff was DESIGNED to be indetectable.
Is it not cheating because he couldn't be caught? Barry took stuff that he knew would not be detected by ANY existing steroid test at the time, why bother since it wasn't banned? BEcause he correctly assumed eventually baseball would get around to banning steroids. He just didn't bank on some doctor at UCLA getting pissed at the guy who invented "the clear" and sending samples of it to drug testing people, that's the only way they ever found out about it.
And no not everyone had access to that stuff, Balco was Bay Area based and the majority of people who were using it were connected to the bay area, guys like Bonds, Giambi, Raiders players etc. There were some who had other connections but the vast majority of athletes had no clue that stuff was around, that's part of how Balco tried to keep it quiet.