Published 1/7/2009
by Joe Kirshenbaum
at Bleacher Report - MLB
Perhaps JC Romero isn't a cheater. The definition of cheating, pertaining to sports and other games, is simply this:
"To violate rules deliberately"
By that definition, it's not cheating, because he didn't know he was putting a banned substance into his body. But at the same time, he thought he was circumventing the rules and screwed up.
If you're pretty much doing something that's pretty much the same thing as someone deliberately violating the rules, but thinking you're circumventing them by doing it in what you think is a legal way, only that it's not, does it make you any better than the guy violating the rules?
The reason why the whole steroid testing in itself is completely flawed is because it's easy to get around it. There's plenty more places like BALCO out there, making their own brand of undetectable "designer" steroids. But since that's risky, as if the one you belong to gets busted like BALCO or Signature Pharmacy, you get busted as well, there's a better ...
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