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Umm, make that "put me down in favour of your continued writing about performance-enhancing drugs". Yours is the only sports column I read anymore, and whenever I watch TV sports there's a virtual asterisk in the upper right corner of my peripheral vision.
I was a serious athlete myself at one time. Most of the allure of watching these sports was in appreciating how much stronger, faster and quicker the pros were than I was. My own abilities gave me a benchmark by which to judge what I was watching, and it was fun, even awe-inspiring.
Baseball, football, basketball and -yes, hockey- long ago moved from the realm of athletic achievement to freak show. Barry Bonds should be barnstorming minor league parks, not chasing major league records.
I blame a complicit media.
Keep writing what you write.
