Oh, you know...

This steroid business may be the death of big sports franchises. If I was a team owner, I would be concerned for the value of my investment.

Sports, to a large degree, serve to bond families together, particularly the sometimes difficult relationships among the males. Children are central to any extended family. Functional families, which includes most, have no interest in teaching their children that steroids are OK. Today, taking your kids to see pro sports runs the risk of sending this message, in a not so subtle fashion.

Here are some relevant articles:

Steroids To Heaven
What Will Become of Professional Baseball
Jose Canseco Fan Site
NFL Ahead of MLB On Steroids
NBA - Steroids And Sports

If you cheer for Joe Slugger as he hits yet another homer, yet everyone knows Joe Slugger would be Joe Bunt, at best, were it not for steroids, aren't we sending the message that steroids are not only OK, but desirable? Any kid would like to have 30,000 people on their feet as they perform such a feat. They are bound to think, if steroids are the way, then perhaps their OK.

I mention this not to slam sports or to protest steriods but instead to note that I suspect others are having these same types of thoughts, at that at the margins pro sports will suffer as steroid use is made public. I suspect baseball is not the end of the trail. There are unnatural looking specimens in other major sports, as well.

I wonder which way this ball will bounce...boing, boing, boing, crash, bam, boom!