Barry Bonds Baddy

Ugh. When I was in High School, a kid on the football team suddenly gained about twenty pounds of muscle and started picking fights all the time. Everyone knew Jeff had started doing steroids. Everyone.

Grown men, men who should know better like this guy at Christianity Today, irnored the evidence in front of their faces: Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sousa steroid heads all. Their records will forever be tarnished--like Shoeless Joe (who is actually probably innocent, unlike these dudes).

But the users list is longer than just baseball: Marion Jones' ability marketedly plunged when the threats and testing swirled around her. The 1994 Chinese swim team featured cartoonish "women" swimmers and won 12 medals. Yup, those Chinese have a genetic abilty to swim like strong fish!

John McEnroe stunned the tennis world when he admitted steroid use. This is pure speculation, but sisters Serena and Venus Williams have all the feminity as Paul Bunyun, their forays into fashion, notwithstanding. In fact, it is downright uncomfortable to see those women in a dress. It's like watching a football player in drag.

Steroids are a huge temptation for the competitive--any edge is seen as a help. Americans have to decide what they desire from champions: the most outrageous, best performance drugs can buy or the best un-doped human performance, because that performance won't be as flashy, inhuman, and super-hero strength.