The problem with our outrage at PED use is that we often arrive at it after conflating a value proposition with a moral one. It is easy for White Upper Middle Class America to regard cheating at baseball as a significant character flaw, because WUMC America is Baseball’s America, and in Baseball’s America, the outcomes of games and seasons and careers are things that we worry about. Countries like the Dominican Republic do not have a national pastime, because most of the people who live in them are so busy with the requirements of living that they do not have time for amusement, recreation, entertainment, fun. Or, at least, not enough time to afford any amount of worry or angst about them.
David Murphy, of the Philadelphia Daily News, brings it hard concerning others’ “outrage” over Major League Baseball players’ PED use. Dave Zirin also had a good post on the matter, attacking it from a similar angle.
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