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I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on the steriods issue, but I figure I might as well throw in my two cents. I'll leave the more expert stuff to John, who to me is doing a valuable service by keeping things in perspective and calling BS on those who for whatever reasons are fanning the flames of hysteria and unreason. It's my contention that the "Steroids Era" is not in fact finished with the new MLB testing agreement, but is rather the beginning of a new reality in sports (and life in general), in which major advances in health sciences, nutrition, medicine, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and nanotechnology will permanently change the way we perceive our bodies in terms of performance (athletic, sexual, business, academic, etc -- let me tell you of that miracle nectar, red bull). If people are freaked out about PEDs now, wait until the nanotechnology and biomedical advances hit. I chanced upon these choice bits from a panel's findings regarding the future of nanotech: For the period of 2010 to 2025, potential uses and hazards include: · Artificial blood cells (respirocytes) that dramatically enhance human performance could cause overheating of the body, bio-breakdowns, and their excretion could add to the environmental load. · Small receptor-enhancers designed to increase alertness and reduce the reaction times of humans could cause addiction and/or subsequent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, leading to weakness, neural damage, and death. If you think the media are all a-froth with indignation now, wait till these sci-fi products hit the scene. This stuff, once refined and utilized for effect (which will like all advances in technologies will be quickly available to those who can afford it), will blow today's PEDs out of the water. And I think by then we will have a better sense of what is good and bad, health-wise; as someone who takes a maintenance steroid for asthma, I can envision a day when a carefully regimented steroid regimen will be de rigueur for professional athletes, both in terms of fulfilling one's athletic promise as well as for insurance purposes, using these advances to keep top athletes (and therefore prime investments) in peak physical shape. I keep thinking of Woody Allen's line in "Sleeper," where his character wakes up in the future and is told that, "Those were thought to be unhealthy ... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true." The whole steroids issue sort of perplexed me until I put it into perspective. We have a restive, hyper-politicized society with numerous 24/7 outlets for commentary and opinion; the rush to judgment is facilitated if not motivated by the ever burgeoning chattering class railing on and on about the latest and greatest scandal. Yet we also live in an era defined by massive, institutionalized fraud. A couple years ago a friend of a friend, visiting from Philadelphia to conduct a workshop on corporate fraud abuse and detection, said of Enron, "We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg," and boy was he right. Fraud is everywhere: corporate fraud is undermining the economy and public confidence, over half the population believes the government is defrauding the public, the mass media is under increasing duress for journalistic bias and gross misrepresentations, the UN is fragmenting under years of systemic mismanagement. The Internet chattering class is quick to point this stuff out, but it seems to have an inherent inability to put things in perspective; the absolute fusillade of instant opinions and bullrushes to judgment forefend the wisdom to balance our perceptions properly. Hence, the misapplication of a slowly building rage better reserved for true culprits of fraud, unfortunately misdirected toward the very symbol of american leisure. And there is unfortunately a need for such things as agreement and judgment. It's no coincidence that Congress made its stand against steroids; it's apparetly the only subject that can bring these bifurcated and contentious lawmakers into any sort of agreement. (With the added benefits of TV time and a much needed opportunity for bloc building.) We can all agree on the notion that we don't like being lied to, or defrauded. So when the talking heads are getting all red in the face about how Joe Fan is being cheated out of "real" history, or how stupid or morally lax he is if he doesn't realize this, it's understandable (yet entirely deplorable) that he's going to get a bit hot under the collar, especially in regards to Bonds, for whom an utterly scandalous level of public enmity is not only tolerated but encouraged. The irony is, of course, we live in what most hope is a meritocracy, so for the enraged masses to rail about ballplayers who are doing what they can to be the best possible athlete (which we fans absolutely demand of them) is of course hypocritical, especially as the Boomer Generation slips into the embraces of the better-living-through-pharmaceuticals phase of life. (Viagra, anyone?) There is little if any logical basis for all the hyperbole and outrage, yet ever more Jacobean modes of punishment are bantered about for those accused and convicted in the public eye, despite the continued absence of any real evidence of wrongdoing. The tragedy is that we are watching the finest baseball mind since Mays or Williams absolutely plateau into perfection, and rather than admire and celebrate it we are told it's false, unreal, a cheat and a fraud, and anyone who doesn't immediately buy this is either mentally deficient or as immoral as the perpetuators of this great unjustice themselves. As a Giants season ticket holder, it's utterly infuriating to see that people are doing what they can to undermine Bonds' sheer excellence as a hitter, willfully ignoring his deep devotion and focus to the sport and the achievements he's realizing due to his efforts. I would love to tell them about having seen Bonds check swing maybe a half dozen times over the past four years, or how he recognizes the pitcher's offering as it leaves his hand, or his technically perfect batting stroke, honed through the years, or his preternatural understanding of base running and defense. But people wash these away with the accusation of steroids, and insult anyone who disagrees with them, and in my mind this denial of what everyone should be admiring -- the perfect baseball mind with a body allowing it to keep up with the field -- is a bigger injustice than whatever it is these men have been accused of doing.
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