Jason Giambi admits steroids use, BREAKING NEWS:BONDS AMDITS TO USE

[Rich]

Astro, by and large, they're ALL competitive athletes, as all but a few have security in their gigs. Also, it's great to know that wrestling isn't a competitive athlete. Rich, I'm glad the world isn't bound to your rules of athletics.

If it were, then

wait...sports are how they should be already. Competitive and filled with real athletes. My bad.

[Melf]

Any WWE wrestler is a hell of lot more active than any baseball player, who basically sit on his ass in the dugout half the game. Wrestlers have to "jump around" all year long with no off-season, the potential for serious injury and even death, and the requirement to pull off feats of athelticism fitting of their character.

How do they compete? What happens to a wrestler who doesn't keep up his character and work ethic? He gets fired or pass by by other wrestlers.

[AstroBlue]

Astro, by and large, they're ALL competitive athletes, as all but a few have security in their gigs.

Good work on not being able to recognise an invalid statement, you'd do well at intelligence tests.

If a wrestler is a competitive athlete, it's because they play sport on the side, not because they wrestle. You can't say "wrestlers" are "competitive athletes", simply because of association, it has to be because "wrestling" is a valid "sport" thus making "wrestlers" "competitive athletes".

¿Comprende?

[Cowutopia]

How are they not athletes? I figure the "wrestling isn't a sport" is just due to it being pre-determined, but elaborate on that if you wouldn't mind.

Holy Christ. Respect -1,000.

[Rich]

Any WWE wrestler is a hell of lot more active than any baseball player, who basically sit on his ass in the dugout half the game. Wrestlers have to "jump around" all year long with no off-season, the potential for serious injury and even death, and the requirement to pull off feats of athelticism fitting of their character.

How do they compete? What happens to a wrestler who doesn't keep up his character and work ethic? He gets fired or pass by by other wrestlers.

Keeping up a character isn't exactly competitive. Acting doesn't make an athlete.


Baseball players do more stretching and running and exercise and practice than you probably think. It's a tough job. And they have to condition all offseason or wind up like David Wells.

[Jeremy]

I knew this can of worms would be opened if pro wrestling was brought into this...

[Rich]

I knew this can of worms would be opened if pro wrestling was brought into this...

Then why did you let it get to this.

Wrestling is not a sport. Wrestlers, while wrestling, are not athletes. Maybe they're doing something on the size making them athletes, but no wrestler can carry the title of athlete as the sole result of being in the WWE.

[Jeremy]

Why did I let it get to this? I didn't intend for it, obviously, I expected it though. I only got into this discussion when sleeveboy brought up the wrestling aspect, which was certainly valid given the paralel 'roid problems between the two.

[Rich]

Why did I let it get to this? I didn't intend for it, obviously, I expected it though. I only got into this discussion when sleeveboy brought up the wrestling aspect, which was certainly valid given the paralel 'roid problems between the two.

It'd be a parallel if juicing effected wrestling. Looking pretty != wrestling better.
Sleeping with the writers = wrestling better.

[maruchan]

ESPN is now reporting that San Fransico Chronicle, says he used steriods.. but said he "didnt know" what they where