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What a POS sport
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It seems that a lot of major sports are having their share of problems lately, but is it just me, or is Baseball the only one that isn’t doing anything about it? 
 

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 Jason Giambi escaped punishment from commissioner Bud Selig on Thursday because of the Yankee slugger’s charitable work and cooperation with baseball’s steroids investigator.
Selig, speaking on the second and final day of an owners meeting, called this an “appropriate decision.”
Giambi has acknowledged a “personal history regarding steroids.”

rov=ap&type=lgns” class=“bb-url”>http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-selig-giambi&amprov=ap&type=lgns
 
WTF?? 
Football and Basketball are both putting the legal smack-down on their problems, granted those issues are maybe more threatening than steriod use. 
 
But what really gets me is how many Tour de France riders have had their careers ended, reputations ruined, lost all sponcership, been kicked off their teams, and sometimes its only at the suspicion of doping.  Baseball players on the other hand, suspected of and even admitting to steriod use, are keeping their million dollar salaries, staying on their teams, breaking records, and being let completely off the hook at the price of some charity work.  Yet the Tour has a bad rap even though they take ridiculous precautions to prevent it.  Those guys are tested before and after every single day of racing, and this years would-be winner (who has never failed a test) was booted because he missed a drug test several months before the race even started. 
 
Why people still support baseball and pay the athletes millions is beyond me. 
Not to mention that they are about 1/10th the athletes that pro cyclists are, standing around swinging bats and sprinting 90 feet at a time, not much more athletic than golfers if you ask me.  
 
Is there some side of the arguement that I am missing here?  Is it maybe just that cycling is international vs. baseball is american league?  I don’t get it. 

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Cycling is not a TV revenue sport. Baseball et al is.

Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, and end up getting charged double.

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Good points.  I was surprised at how many people were “Shocked” at the doping scandals in Cycling this year.  Most of those people don’t acknowledge that cycling is the ONLY sport that tests for blood doping.  All American sports do urine tests that can not detect doping and human growth hormone.
 
Also, people seemed to forget that the NFL Defensive Player of the Year was suspended for 4 games last year for a positive steroid test. 
1 Positive Test NFL = 25% of your season suspended
1 Positive Test MLB = 15 games (less than 10% of the season)
1 Positive Test Cycling = Out for year and possibly for your career.

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All American sports do urine tests that can not detect doping and human growth hormone.


Like they really want to detect this.

 

Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, and end up getting charged double.