Comments on: Steroids & A Little Boy's Baseball Cards

Seattle-Area Boy Separates "Cheaters" From Baseball Card Collection

[kaelinda]

This little boy should also be taught that in America, a person is innocent until proven guilty. And if there is no proof of guilt, just the accusation alone can ruin an athlete''s reputation. Why should anyone believe Mitchell? What makes his word more reliable than any or all of the players? Who died and made him infallible? Let''s try to keep open minds and wait until all the facts are in instead of jumping to conclusions - if we jump to conclusions, we''re not always going to be proud of where we landed.

[excoachken]

I know it is the Holiday, but can''t we have a real story, not this drivel?

[mailrick-2009]

All so-called "professional" sports now are nothing more than corporations out to make money - by any means they can. Greed rules.

[antoniof123]

I like this kid, he has a great idea put all of them on the worthless list.

[briannorwood]

Attaboy, kiddo.

[vittlesr]

The writer makes a good point at the end. Are any of the athletes clean? Are the games fixed by the refs? If they are, just tell us, and we''ll know it''s professional wrestling, and decide whether we want to go on that basis.

And that kid better get a bigger binder if he''s gonna separate all of the steroid cards out.

[barbaraf4]

...and you''''re not relevant.... Posted by FloydZepp

Thank you! I never intended to be.

[rushlimpdrug]

By the way, someone may want to tell this kid how "Majic" Johnson got AIDS, and the records some of the other NBA stars have on the number of women they''ve sacked, and that great ref that could fix a game, etc..
Now that gives the father a whole lot of articles to write.

[piercetheval]

Basketball? It ain''t nothing but ping-pong! Baseball ****** itself out years ago when it started taking in players from other countrie. It''s an American game and there is enough talent in this country to field as many teams as they have. I want to see ''Yanks'' [U.S. citizens] playing the game. The kids I grew up with on the field. I don''t want to root for a Cuban, Guatamalean, Mexican, Serbian, Antartican etc. at the ball park. If you want an international game leave it to the Olympics or else have international ball games. Get rid of the ''Roid Heads and expunge their records from the other purists. Hank will always be the HR king to me and Ruth the HR King of the pre-war deadball era. Bonds and his ilk can cut bait

[rushlimpdrug]

I agree this is not news, it is actually stupid.

Wait till the kid finds out that in the NBA they don''t take drug tests because smoking marijuana is accepted by the players and front office.

I don''t expect the idiot father to tell his son this until the kid has collected hundreds of NBA cards and can write another sob story.