because committing a felony and cheating at a game are the same thing And if cheating makes you millions more, that's a form of theft, isn't it? no Care to elaborate? You'd disagree with me if I said the sky was blue. i wouldn't disagree with you if you weren't wrong. the owners knew what was going on and offered up contracts to the guys juicing. this stuff wasn't a surprise to them. Unless I'm missing something or there is some elaborate conspiracy in baseball that I am unaware of, how are the owners supposed to know who's juicing and who isn't? In addition to that the potential theft that may be created isn't necessarily from the owners. In fact the owners have most likely obtained money from steroids. What could be considered theft is from the Minor leaguers who were clean and didn't get to the Majors because of people ahead of them who used and from clean Major Leaguers who didn't get a bigger contract because of steroid users who had better numbers. What i meant is that the owners all knew that players were using steroids, but no one ever stepped up and did or said anything. Instead they kept giving out big contracts which indirectly just encouraged it. as far as it being theft because it hurt clean minor leaguers, there's no need to even bother calling it theft. I mean, it may or may not be, but why waste time trying to come up with a term that flimsily fits the crime? Using steroids is illegal, it's wrong, it's cheating, it's bad. Fair enough