Brian Roberts admits steroid use

Not to play conspiracy theorist, but both Petite and now Roberts only admitted the "bare minimum" of use that would match the allegations in the report....nothing more, nothing less.

I find it hard to believe that these guys who REFUSED to talk to the Mitchell committee, who strenuously denied using before the report (at least in Petite's case, although I believe Roberts probably did so too), and guys who were willing to break the rules are now suddenly telling the WHOLE truth.

Look, no one "uses steroids" once - you don't get results or anything that way, plain and simple.  You have to be on a regimen for awhile to see any improvements.  And I find it difficult to believe that Petite ONLY used HGH to recover from injury, and didn't continue to use after he recovered....

Maybe they are telling the truth.  But I think we should suspend our belief of these "confessions" until we learn more (if we learn more, that is).

It may match what is in the report, but the report was mostly incomplete.  If someone decided to take steroids, they almost certainly stuck with it.  Roberts suddenly turned a lot of his doubles into home runs and in recent years those home runs have turned into doubles again.  If there is any such player that makes a perfect example of steroid use (steroid use lasting longer than one year), it's Brian Roberts.  

But the point is that he lied, lied, lied, lied and then told some form of the truth.  Why would anyone believe him?  

Like Pettitte's admission, this wasn't an admission to the fans.  It was an admission to the media in hopes of getting them off their back and to control the story that's being written about them as both have successfully done.  

Yes, Roger Clemens' denial sounds like a guilty man's pleas.  That doesn't mean that Roberts and Pettitte told the truth though.

You can clean up the steroids in baseball and that just means that players have found other means to improve performance that is either more efficient than steroids, safer than steroids, or less detectable than steroids...or a combination of all 3.  

There will be no time in baseball or any other sport where everyone is playing on a level playing field with everyone else.  There never has been in baseball, or any sport dating back more than 2000 years.  

Everyone takes the path of least resistance.  Not everyone has the same moral standards and therefore the paths are sometimes different based on those standards, but each and every person takes the path of least resistance that conforms to their moral and ethical standards.  Until you eliminate all those that are morally and ethically challenged, progress will not truly be made.  And, obviously, we can eliminate a large percentage of mankind.  

Are we going to continue to form an investigative team once every 20 years to name 80-some players who have cheated or are we going to accept that human beings cheat and therefore baseball will always have its fair share of cheaters?  

I vote for accepting what we cannot possibly do anything about.  Accepting doesn't mean we agree with the actions of others.  It just means we acknowledge that human beings are always going to cheat one way or another.  There's nothing you can do about.  There's nothing I can do about it.  There's nothing anybody can do about it.

BUT,...the majority of fans actually ENJOY seeing home runs hit. It's a fact that the mojority of fans would rather see bombs hit than a 'pitcher's duel'. It's just our culture. Fast food, Pepsi Generation, I want it yesterday.

Not my problem.

I still don't understand how some can hate on a player for taking PED. Why? For the sake of the kids? Like Charles Barkley said, 'I'm not a role model, the parents shoudl be role models.' Is it bad for the kids to see celebritys smoking in movies or on tv? What about alcohol? Is it bad for the kids to see drinking of hard liquor, wine or beer on tv or being advertised? I mean, hell, let's bring back Prohibition. That worked marvelously. See the hypocrisy? Ask yourself how many kids are killed each year in drunk driving related deaths. And yet those parents who lost their sons to suicide, which they directly attributed to steroid use, were made the fools.
Are we gonna see those parents lobby to get rid of booze? Of course not.

 It has nothing to do with 'the children' and everything to do with our freedoms.

First the government said steroids didn't work. Uh, whoops. Guess they do. I mean did they forget that pharmacuetical companies actually make these drugs for a reason. Burn victims to regrow skin faster, as just one example.

So there's lie #1.

Next they said your balls would shrivel up and fall off. Whoops. Whaddya mean hcg, (no not HGH), can fix that.

Lie #2.

Then your heart would explode or you'd get liver cancer or something.

All the while not realizing, or not caring, that they started prescribing Testosterone Enanthate as a form of male birth control in the early 90's.

Well, wait a minute. Does the drug realize that if it's being prescribed for male BC that it's nto allowed to cause cancer? Of course not. Because it doesn't cause cancer. Steroids are no more harmful than alcohol. If abused, yes they can mess you up.

This country where we praise our freedoms so often is the same country where our government controls us and works to take those freedoms away.

I realize most will disagree with the above. I could care less. The hypocrisy bothers me the most.