Curt Schilling

So I am entering the blog world due to Curt. I am a Sox fan, born and raised in the city and after reading his blogs decided what the heck, why not start this blogging thing. This was the post I just entered on his recent comments

Where is the line drawn? These components athletes are taking are typically found naturally in the body – creatine, testosterone, growth hormones etc. So do you ban everyone taking creatine? Protein shakes? What if an athlete genetically over produces testosterone or growth hormone, is he/she banned from professional sports? My personal opinion is that you cannot strip a baseball player of their accolades because you will be penalizing the few who are caught, and not the majority who are using. Jones was stripped of her olympic medals for individual efforts AND the relay but how can you fairly take away medals from say, Clemens, when the batters he faced likely were using some kind of enhancer? In this day and age of medicine, heck, isn’t a knee operation a performance enhancer? Or glasses/contacts? Where is the Darwinism here? Clearly that athlete was not the strongest to survive, but with modern medicine we can put almost any athlete back on the field or improve their output. And what is going to happen in say 30 years when parents genetically design their children to be more intelligent, taller, left handed? Yikes, we are going to need new leagues – the boring natural athlete, and then those that will do anything to be the best. I better take some sleeping pills right now so I can best compete for tomorrows boardroom meeting. And right before, a redbull. We are all competing against each other…