Keith Kizer stated that he did not tell the Athletic commission he was not going through Testosterone replacement therapy and thats what got him in hot water. It's the same deal for Nate Marquardt, except he contacted the commission about it and did not get his levels back down to normal in time for his fight.
I'm not defending Chael Sonnen but whenever an athlete gets in trouble for drugs people automatically assume its PED's and that they are nothing but scum bag cheaters.
My jadedness aside.
I don't really care what the reasons are. They
knowingly, took, used, injected, swallowed, whatever, hell even with medical advise/approval. Doesn't make it an excuse period.
Is it against the rules? Yup. Did they take the proper steps to inform everyone they needed to ahead of time? No, or they tried but X didn't happen.
So they still break the rules? Yes. So that's cheating? Yes.
I knew I was drunk, but I had to drive to get home, I meant to tell everyone, but I forgot. Oh, but I had plenty of time to call a cab ahead of time and didn't. My bad. That's the same logic.
Honestly I don't care if athletes use PEDs...
IF, they are up front about it, honest about it and
IF their respective sports would allow them. It would make everything a lot easier.
MMA is a great example of a sport where there isn't a long, often overly romanticized history with legends and records that are valued more than the constitution. So if X fighter is clean and X fighter is using PEDs there should be some rules in place that would allow those fights to take place, or not take place. I'm totally fine with that.
But with Baseball and other sports,
my issue, is with athletes, such as Bonds, A-Rod, Sosa and others being put next to the likes of Mays, Ruth, Aaron and other athletes for as far as we know, played the game straight up.
I really don't care if Bonds used at all, but don't tell me you had no idea, when you fully did and then don't pretend to be better than someone like Mays or Aaron who didn't have the help of HGH, Anabolic steroids and other substances that are
proven to enhance athletic ability, and the overall human physiology.
Do I think they're scumbags? No. *****ebags? Yes, if they're trying to hide the fact that what they did should be cherished and put on the same pedestal as someone that did it with nothing more than hard work.
I'm not saying Sonnen is in the same league either way or not as Bonds. I am just saying, he knew and knows it is against UFC rules. Plain and simple, he cheated.
The leagues, commissions, Olympics, fans, we're all guilty. We
want to see the biggest, best, strongest, fastest, hardest hitting, et cetera. So they give the people want they want to sell tickets and make money and they in turn cover up a lot of the big names that get caught.
I personally just like to know that hey, Ken Griffy Jr. was clean and despite what he could have been, this is what he was with just his own natural ability and hard work. Where as, who knows how great Bonds actually would have been if he hadn't taken PEDs?
Maybe he wouldn't have been the greatest slugger, but maybe he would have been the greatest baseball player ever?
