Steroids part 2

This will be in the same format as the first so read that disclaimer.

Basically Congress says they are doing this to clean up sports and help younger athletes stay away from steroids. We all know that the real reasons are publicity and wanting control of pro sports, but let's examine their reasons. First of all the cleaning up of sports, the rest of the article I'm going to focus only on steroids and focus on other drugs later in the blog or in another blog. It is almost impossible to completely clean up sports, it is almost admirable how far some athletes will go to win, putting themselves in personal danger from the side effects to be the best, but it is cheating. Baseball have taken great steps to clean up the sport, even though they have inadvertently singled out the wrong players (people on the border of minors and majors) instead of the Barry Bonds and Jason Giambis. Football has an alright drug policy but it seems to focus more on narcotics than steroids. NBA's drug policy is kind of a joke, but it works for the NBA because they recognize the culture of the game and players and steroids is not much of a worry. But the point is the leagues seem to have it under control. Like standardized testing in schools having standardized drug testing will hurt more than it will help. Baseball will be least effected and football would probably have a few more steroid catches but their stars would be safe, basketball has a lot of guys who smoke pot and a standardized policy would really hurt the league if stars get suspended for long lengths of time. Also they want to model the penalties after the olympics, so imagine in baseball if an Albert Pujols get suspended for two years because he did not check the label of a supplement or the Houston Rockets get stripped of a championship because McGrady smokes pot would be bad for everyone. For the part about helping the younger athletes this is my answer whenever someone tries to change something because a youngster imitates it, WHERE THE HELL ARE THE PARENTS. I understand parents cannot be watching their kids 24/7 and things like drinking will happen but if your kid becomes unbelievably jacked and has mood swings then shouldn't a flag go up. The high schools need to come up with better drug testing policies and the parents need to pay attention to their kids especially if they play football or baseball. Kids have killed themselves because of the mood swings associated with steroids, and these aren't single parent families where the parent works two jobs to support the family. These are middle class families where the parents (for the most part) are around and able to keep an eye on their kids. Maybe the government should be more concerned with setting up drug testing for pre-college athletes instead of professionals because that's where it starts.