Drugs In Sports

It doesn't matter whether it is the Tour De France, NFL football or  Major League baseball there is one common theme among all of them.  There are cheaters every where.  Some say it helps them come back from injury other will tell you they were not good enough until the drug.  Regardless of the excuse professional athletes get huge contracts  and when they are caught they only have to pay pennies as a punishment.

Ryan Braun of the Milwakee Brewers  went to great lengths to say the system cheated him when he failed a drug test.  After all the lies he has accepted a 65 game suspension for the rest of the season.  It will cost him about 3.8 million of a 120 million dollar contract.  Sounds to me like he got off with a slap on the wrist and hurry back next year.

There is only one way to stop drugs in sports and that is of course ban a player for one year when he fails a drug test.  When it happens again ban him for life.  I understand that the players unions of all sports will not let that happen but isn't it a funny thing when the clean baseball players started to openly call Braun a cheater the union help suspend Braun and who knows who else will go down in the next month.

The US government along with all professional sports teams should take notice that the city of Detroit went bankrupt.  Our government can't continue to throw money away unless they get something back in return.  Professional sports teams can't expect TV and fans who attend the games to continue to pay extravagant fees to attend games.  One day the well is going to run dry and the river of money is going to quit flowing.

Why should any sports team pay a player a multi million dollar contract after he has just come off drug suspension..  The people in Washington who spent our money not theirs have no control of themselves and yet we give them free reign  to control to lose our money.  Professional sports teams act as if money flows like a river.

One day it will all come to an end because the people spending the money will one day wake up and there is no more.  It will be no more because government gave it all away and can't pay the interest back.  Professional teams will have given it all to the cheaters and those who truly play for the love of the game will play for the love of the game and not money.  I bet those days are within our life time.