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Originally Posted by jtur88

It is easy to rationalize away from this, but I find it troubling that all kinds of things have happened in baseball to enhance peformance, generally without any questions as to the justification of the performance-enhancing attributes. Nobody has found any fault with pitchers pitching from performance-enhancing mounds, batters using bats made from performance-enhancing woods, batters wearing performance-enhancing gloves, fielders using performance-enhancing gloves playing on performance-enhancing infields, andn pitchers getting performance-enhancing surgery implainting performance-enhancing body parts in their arms, allowing players to wear performance-enhancing eyeglasses, equipping teams with performance-enhancing baseballs to meet MLB's performance-enhancing specifications or putting the balls in performance-enhancing humidors. Why, then, is the reaction diametrically and unanimously the opposite, bordering on criminal charges, when players are using performance-enhancing pharmaceuticals?

well, for one, player abuse of these performance enhancing pharmaceuticals actually tends to actually be criminal.