Does it matter if Pro Atheltes take steroids?

Good morning -- the top Feinberg show brought to you by. Network capital funding corporation your future financed. Beautiful sunny day nice and comfortable today mid seventies. Then hot weather and ninety's upper ninety's coming in tomorrow and then eighty's and ninety's over the next week herself. While some are all of a sudden arriving right on schedule how nice so let's talk a little sports let's talk a little baseball Roger Clemens. Has had. Two trials over the past four plus years no verdict in the first one innocent not guilty of criminal charges of perjury. Relating to his use. Perhaps. Of illicit substances and his testimony from a congress when he denied. That he never used us so the federal government the big ugly federal prosecution machine. This is something I think we ought to be concerned about a when federal prosecutors. Decide. That there are gonna chase you down. How do you survive that if you were normal human being. John Edwards beat his federal rap while. -- Roger Clemens did it to how did they do this because they have huge amounts of money. But you really have to look at the types of cases that are being brought why is Roger Clemens. Even facing trial. Why exactly. Is the problem with a professional athlete. Using a performance enhancing. Substance. Why do we care. What difference does that make. That's the question not that I agree -- question -- guy I think it does make a difference but I want to get you talking about it because coach CI had a great argument about it this morning coach -- thanks. We should just let everybody use. Anything they want in professional sports. And I think he can have professional institutions. There are forcing people to destroy their bodies in order to compete. So we do have a difference of opinion but I am raising the question the most blunt way I can what difference does it make to you. If professional athletes are. Cheating is that the right word using. A steroid is that cheating or is that competed in the best you know how. 61726666. He what's the big deal so athletes are always going to do whatever they can do win. Athletes will always do that's their job is to compete and do great. And by the way it's not just them. You've got students nowadays who were using drugs to step all -- using drugs to enhance their focus during a test. And I guess -- she would have to argue that's fine tune. Musicians would be able to write to great music that they do. If they were able to take drugs that altered their mind and sent the mosque and a bizarre places. We benefit all the time from people being interested in and willing to experiment with drugs. If that's what they want to do. Are drugs any different from sugar. Soda. Fast food restaurants or anything else you wanna do that's not good for you but is your prerogative as a human being living in a free society. Why do we care. If athletes. Are using drugs. That help them be better athletes that we pay to see them do is perform above and beyond right. 6172666860. You can also text assets 68680. -- good morning to you. I'd try to -- you. I know well how about you both very good but you don't -- trying to pick it and I'm just telling couldn't -- my enjoyment steroids and a couple of things one of them. Is that if you allow steroids to professional athletes and what happens is what do you do with directed books because. Death -- value discriminating against people like say Carl Yastrzemski. You know Roger Maris Mickey Mantle did did not have access to these drugs in the Italian. Okay and actually you have to play is like Bobby bonds' big -- Clemens and all the others. You know the past twenty years that we using these drug. Is so what are we doing now behold I -- Jimmy makes this argued in a lot of people make this argument or what about the foot about the history of the game in people who broke records. Guy can make the same argument they Babe Ruth never played against black players so I mean how could his records be any. Better than what Barry Bonds -- -- any players doing today he didn't play -- -- hear him play against black shares are banned from the games the only details train was set. But the whole you know the record book scenario game change -- so many ways professional sports is changes some anyways it's almost silly to be comparing records anyway but what are Jimmy what are they doing now what the records -- some of these players as you pointed out. Have achieved great -- while using these illicit substances. The problem is it is 58. That the argument remains open and and in my position. It is like a lot of people -- I wasn't feeling that the station's sports talk stations well they've been so popular opinion is that they have to look at these records. And and look at them for different area is one of the words -- -- -- player who played in the 21 century like abroad or climbing and you know he would be -- he would be that different considered it very different Arab and some little played in the sixties -- seventies. They did their. -- what's your opinion. What's your opinion I think you don't well back in that case and the steroids are problem you sent. -- that problem I'm worried about steroid -- you can look at it like this you know you take simulates a Ty Cobb for example right he played baseball and many get a regular job on the -- -- public has yet to feed his family correct dry heat in -- -- he wasn't a baseball player 365. Days a year. Eating their life -- -- the exercising properly take in the right protein shakes mean. If you didn't have his own living Kyra you're exactly so this -- children are basically our guests dear every carry different and this column is look you wanna pop is so full of steroids and while answering a bad hit a baseball they. Power team in I don't care do whatever you want it's that -- life living however you wanna live aren't that's what I'm stressed on the tickets and cargo plane I'll probably W because your steroid freak. I won't buy -- Jersey I might not support the team that John. And at the end of the day the free market takes over in the people will be Sharma who were using steroids we don't need congress getting involved the top. Testify with baseball play it's ridiculous you agree with galaxy 61726660. And if you make the argument that steroids. Steroids state saved the game of baseball we wouldn't be having a conversation like this today why you say is well -- or baseball Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa saved baseball only did it with -- Seoul say you know for more I baseball looked the other way after the strike. When Sammy Sosa Bim -- Mark McGwire hitting home runs they would doing it on June juice. And their mobile looked the other way because they needed to save the game of baseball gimme a break with this car of steroids are not not saying all right we got you now the other side of the story exist. What kind of institution isn't if it allows people to harm themselves. In order to win to put poison into their bodies in order to compete and there's also the trickled down into school sports whatever they do in the -- us. Is how they gonna play a lower levels very there's no terrorist parent and I'm going to Toronto and Paris. It's very dangerous to put these things in your -- C'mon cooks know what he's gonna paying attention parents you know that Paul still exists or should we ban all musicians because they do drugs and it might. Give a kid and I did do some -- meth heroin before says playing guitar interest and let's consider that Paul good morning RR KO. -- -- -- -- You know. I think you -- you're mixing like eight conversation here about this whole thing. On your initial -- question what is purely be at a hearing about this with congress and should be people -- court. It's just wanna Iranians I was wrestling -- I'm sure that the primary question I'm concerned with is well -- We should simply allows story it's 'cause that's what do you cook she was proposing to me this morning. -- -- It's seemed that when he is not you and I -- he is the NFL or Major League Baseball they are very private organization. Up there are laws controlling the use of these substances and these -- the perjury in front of congress was because congress was having hearings on this matter. Right but that's the issue most people have a -- whether or not. People using them in these specific. When he hit the big deal right now it's illegal use certain things that -- Turks solid state get in trouble this week who we get them in trouble not. Congress certainly congress shouldn't be digging into this period just because it's not fair it's not they're deemed not fair but. You could wave a magic wand and make the law that would say these substances are gonna be allowed in professional sports in this country there are going to be allowed to be taken. Or sold its illegal just like heroin. Just like all kinds of things wouldn't that be the best thing for the health of the population. And for the integrity of these games. In yet in any -- Indy in Accenture and in a vacuum yes that would hurt but he could say that it's wrong for us to allow people to. Potentially harm themselves. There. To perform some activity whether it be baseball football or even to go to work and steel mill. You are you saying let's go to work every day are still no way you're getting -- like that doubt that put your body long term risk. So substantial damage. I don't know all I can tell you is if somebody wants to come to work for me. And I'm running a place where the only way you successfully worked for me is to take a dangerous chemical. And I know it's going on and I allow it to go on. I'm open all kinds a liability you wanna let the free market run yes the story is -- -- really fast I think as people start suing. The trouble is right now maybe it'll laws that have a stuck in this middle zone. It's not a good thing it's a very bad thing to have athletes join us in particular for young people high school athletes say these things. So they can be better competitors. Dangerous stuff that harms a lot of people rooms a lot of lives Steve good morning your NW RKO. A bit of people being here understand why congressman involved. Don't take the lead paint ball and he believed in -- special antitrust exemption. You can't just open and another baseball league because. Congress has read we like to have you know a monopoly on baseball. Told you congress -- that certain. You know the recession this because they allow you to have monopoly out of baseball league. Sure but I I still don't know why they had to get -- that gives them the user ran off to get us on the -- -- -- what he had looked at me you know there -- brought to climate they really cute about the perjury thing you know I think he got off. It is because I think that Jerry Bennett you know what we can't we can't -- can't block aid directly to congress. But we don't care and a lot of it everyday until we're -- can't let somebody else lied to them. Yes I should point lead that congress lacks the credibility of the federal government I think in our eyes. Lacks the credibility to be chasing from people like Roger Clemens for lying I think there's a big part of the population that feels that way. These drugs are insidious inside of -- games and a you know as much as it goes against my libertarian instincts in the natural thing for me would be to say. Hey you know -- let everyone do their own thing let the market work it out. The idea that you have cheating as a natural order of things in your professional sports means. That those people who have a love of the game I wanna compete at the highest global can't. Unless they become one of the cheaters SS somehow that just seems like a horrible thing for our society does it not -- -- but. We also applied athletes who go into the locker room at halftime we get the cortisone shot. So that they cannot come back go and run on their knee that is practically broken. And quotas on -- steroid. So what's the difference. There is no difference it's just it's this steroids made out to be this big bad dried then all of a sudden like a price shock you but steroids talk. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Who can perform at the highest level of their profession. And some of the other people are taken steroids that puts you under very difficult situation -- the would you say it's an unfair advantage of Tom Brady for example goes and takes cortisone shots at halftime so we can finish up the game is at an unfair advantage because the cortisone shot. Is going against his natural ability to play the game for the rest of the rest of the habits a question of degree and legality is the court is illegal and Kenny any player take you went out and isn't legal so -- -- it -- does just as much damage jazz taking another type of -- well -- should make they have big muscles initially get banning a -- Mike good morning -- -- They might. They get taught down again that's welcome our personal responsibility. And Major League Baseball has the personal responsibility. Cleanup sale -- our parents. I can tell my side and all. You you're probably not -- make it to the Major League Baseball and steroids sort of -- -- -- cheap but it's only get back to look like they're down. Barbara circus over wrought upon lying then they had obligations that they -- separate browser that they shouldn't -- part of congress but apartments. Roger climates like a -- -- pin so I went to trial but -- quite -- it's not Eli here. That's a good point that I mean there's a lot of out but you know what. It just doesn't work it's like -- pulled over speeding and you're worried about it's all the -- about the guy who's gone faster than you you gotta be irresponsible for yourself. And it it's just. No way to make -- world to say to people if you wanna compete at the highest levels you have to be a cheater along with -- SIE. You've got to take dangerous drugs and have to damage your body. That's not the right way to run a league do you think Tony good morning -- RKO. Our property Jordan and -- state -- not just you know you have to have some rules. You congress so a lot more important thing to do ever do there's more out there earlier -- I totally agree but that's a separate issue from whether athletes. Should be allowed to use drugs that aren't well should anybody feel out smoke. Who -- until more people and courage. Durham where it's not that the death were concerned with its about a highly competitive environment. Where you're saying to people if you want to be great in your sport you now have to poison yourself. That's different from the deciding what you why do you keep saying poison your because of your voice so well where it's -- putting. Steroids into your body of your body already produces most of these things -- you putting into it. You're just overloading your body with that what exactly -- Muscle enhancer is yes so I mean its final half hour ago you all -- -- eating as many big Macs I wanted to kill myself. And now I'm not allowed to kill myself to enhance my career. I don't see the similarity here's why if you were going to war in your employer was essentially saying to you based on the environment and their willingness to walk away. That if you wanna compete in the -- army have to eat those cheeseburgers all day you have to eat French Fries. You have to have sold every day that's a whole different thing from free choice. You should be able to go to work and compete at the highest levels in your industry without having to be a cheater. And have sports in this country that force you to be cheat our problem what that it's not easy form because I hate anybody restricting. Free choice. But that's a situation weren't how do you reconcile that 6172666816. Todd fibre channel six AW RKO. Commander with -- multiple personalities who members -- chairman talks all the time for -- you or him.