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Posted By: davidcycleback

Parents of kids who have college or pro athletic aspirations.

Personally, I compare steroids usage to graphic manipulations of the games. If I found out ESPN was computer graphically enhansing the home runs so the appeared to be going another 100 ft or, even words, manipulating scoring on the tv, I'd quit watching the sport. The reason I watch sports is not to have television execs fix the game.

To me, players on steroids makes the game fake, like a video game. If you watch an Olympic sprint and someone tells you the guy won because he had a better strain of steroids than the guy who came in second, you get the sense you had watched an espisode of Red Dwarf. I don't watch sports to see who has the best biochemist.

P.s., Red Dwarf (Pre-1997) is a great British science fiction comedy, with such episodes as when a space ship member put the lunch curry he was eating on the transmographier and accidentally created a monster half man half vindaloo that terrorized the crew.