A-Rod Owes Us More Steroids

As a $28 million a year salary man in 2009, A-Rod owes us more steroid use, not less. Gulping, ingesting and injecting steroids to enhance performance after being paid millions of dollars to play a game should be applauded.

Sports, especially professional sports, are like the dozen roses you bought your girlfriend on Valentine's Day. Those roses are slowly withering and turning brown. After about a week, those cut roses and all the money you spent on them, will die.

But that was the point of the roses, wasn't it? Buying a dozen cut roses, knowing they will ultimately turn into some mouldy, drooping, sickly bunch of garbage within a week, is the ultimate declaration of love.

One spends money on roses, knowing they won't last, as a way of saying "I love you so much, I paid a lot of money just to brighten one week of your life."

Sports is a bouquet of roses. Sports don't really matter and a game score lasts about as long as that FTD-delivered flower bundle.

If athletes like Alex Rodriguez want to use performance enhancing drugs to hit more home runs and validate the unearthly amount of dollars major league baseball owners heap on him, we, as fans, should welcome that.

Should society worry about the long-term affects steroids have on A-Rod's body? Hell, we don't even worry about U.S. soldiers in Iraq who must rumble the killing fields with inadequate armor and protection.

Do we care about how Black Lung Disease affects the coal-miners who provide some of the electricity you are using to read this? Are there many news articles complaining about that every day?

Oh, A-Rod using steroids will send our youth the wrong message. But sending young men to kill or be killed in Iraq for $50,000 a year while A-Rod earns $27.5 million that same year doesn't?

Athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs to justify multi-million dollar salaries should be applauded. We all know there are just as many, if not more, athletes who are toking and smoking weed, and going the Screaming Yellow Zonkers route in which they bong, get lazy, and move like molasses on the field and off. Most sports leagues and sports reporters seem to accept that.

Several generations ago, athletes like Ted Williams went to war. Modern day athletes are like a Valentine's Day Rose Bouquet: pretty for the moment but, ultimately, frail and destined for the trash.

More athletes should take performance enhancing drugs to justify their salaries. Salaries ranging in the millions demand what ever lotion, potion and cream modern day athletes can heap upon their bodies to justify what they get paid. 

As a sports fan, I don't worry about what these potions do to the athletes body. If you don't want the dime, then don't do the crime. Otherwise, juice up, boys. After all, it could be worse.

You could be using your speed, reflexes and your muscle to dodge bullets in Iraq for $50K a year.