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HGH and Rick Ankiel?

Who really cares if Rick "The Stick" used HGH back in 04 BEFORE any of the "rules"?? That was 3 yrs ago!! Who cares if ANY of them use enhancers? They are doing it to themselves!! AND to all those who will reply about the examples the athelets are setting...WELL...the kids wouldn't know much about it if the media WOULDN'T be reporting it all the time!! I believe that if they wanna take these "drugs" then so be it!!! YOU STILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HIT THE BALL!! No matter how much they take,if they can't hit it then it doesn't matter!!!

Public Comments

1. This is such crap. How can you even say something like this about ankiel when you turn around and trash Bonds for everything he does. Everything you just said can be applied to Bonds yet he gets dragged through the dirt everyday, and you are willing to give this guy a pass? That is a joke I'm not saying Bonds deserves a pass but if he is treated the way he does then everyone who does what he does needs to be treated with the same scrutiny. Plus HGH was illegal in friggin america baseball expects you to follow federal rules. They dont make a separate rule saying not to murder others because federal laws cover it.
2. The problem goes into that guys like Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ricky Henderson, Tony Gwynn, Ryne Sandburg, Joe Morgan, Andre Dawson, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gerhig, Cal Ripken, Jr., Ozzie Smith, Nolan Ryan, Sandy Kofax and Bob Feller didn't set records or break records by cheating the game of baseball with steriods or HGH. So why should we let guys like Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Rafeal Palmerio or Barry Bonds get a free pass for it just because at the time it wasn't against the rules? Think about this, if a co-worker of yours were to cheat his way to a promotion...stealing your ideas...but it wasn't against company policy to do so at the time...and later on they made a rule that protected you from it.....should they be able to go back and punish him now, or do we let it go just because "it's in the past"? Or if a child molester victimizes a 6 year old boy...but it's been 24 years since it happened....does that mean we let him off of the hook for the crime because it's in the past? Just because it happened before the rule was in place doesn't mean you should go back and make things right. Don't get me wrong...I'm not for a witch hunt with MLB, NBA and NFL players as well as every other sport.....but I am for at least gettting the big time guys taken down who disrespected the game, history and the fans by cheating at that level. It's one thing for a guy to use a spitball or something where it doesn't effect every game that a team plays in...another to make yourself 10 times stronger and quicker than you normally could be because of chemicals you put into your body that will end up shortening your life by 10-20 years. If Rick Ankiel in fact used HGH...he should be suspended and fined under MLB's rules. I don't care that it was 3 years ago and the rules were different....he still cheated to get his career back on track. Right now he's making a case for NL's comeback player of the year.....which is a pretty big deal. (Sammy Sosa is the likely player in the AL). The comeback player of the year is a big deal....because it means that it won't be a minor league deal this offseason, but a multi-million dollar one in all probablility. It means that the perception of a player has changed..and he is good again. So if he did that by cheating..then he's cheating the fans, writers and players around him. It doesn't matter when he did it, he still did it. He deserves to be punished. Next year, if he can prove he's clean and he can prove he's doing it clean and earns a spot on the Cardinals roster...so be it. However, he deserves his punishment.....thats how I see it.
3. Three years ago or not, the intent to gain unfair advantage over his peers was his priority. That's call cheating.