Sammy Sosa Tested Positive for Steroids

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<!--quoteo(post=44702:date=Jun 17 2009, 02:31 PM:name=vitaminB)-->QUOTE (vitaminB @ Jun 17 2009, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=44690:date=Jun 17 2009, 01:59 PM:name=Destined)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Destined @ Jun 17 2009, 01:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=44688:date=Jun 17 2009, 10:57 AM:name=vitaminB)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (vitaminB @ Jun 17 2009, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->You can say he was a cheater for the corked bat. Got it. But to call him a cheater cause he tested positive on a voluntary exploratory test, when there was no ban on any controlled substance at all is preposterous. That's like calling Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt cheaters because if you tested their cars with today's standards they wouldn't pass. You're only a cheater if you break an actual rule.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'll be honest, I don't know the laws. But aren't anabolic steroids illegal without prescriptions?
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Not in the Dominican Republic. And if we're going to call people cheaters for breaking the laws of the United States then you'd have to ban anyone convicted of a DUI.
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You're completely splitting hairs to attempt to justify Sosa's cheating. A DUI doesn't give you an unfair advantage. Steroids have been against MLB rules since the early 1990s.

If you want to try to create a loophole to suggest he wasn't a cheater, then you probably can be creative and invent one. It doesn't change the facts. Sosa cheated. Everybody knows it.