You're either a black-and-white person, or you believe certain forms of enhancement are worse than others. Sarcastically, and possibly seriously, I'm a black-and-white person when it comes to life, and that includes my take on sports.

I can easily compare performance-enhancing drugs to contact lenses. Each can enhance my performance. Greg Oden had microfracture knee surgery -- which made his knees stronger that before the injury even occurred -- to repair them instead of letting them heal naturally. That enhances his performance, even though he's still a bust in the NBA at this time. Any pitcher who gets Tommy John surgery does it to not only heal but to make the elbow stronger than before the injury happened. That enhances performance. So is having surgery, getting lasik or taking Viagra cheating? Because it sure as heck can enhance someone's performance.

PEDs are no worse than doctoring a baseball, tipping pitches, corking a bat, wearing eye black to see a pitch better or wearing shoes to run faster. All of those factors enhance your performance, yet not all of those are considered cheating. Interesting.

The so-called purists argue back by decrying that taking PEDs is illegal. Some of these same people smoke pot or have gotten DUIs or speeding tickets. If you've done anything, and I mean anything, illegal, you're a hypocrite. If you drive above the speed limit, you're trying to enhance your commute. You're cheating by breaking the law. If you drank alcohol before you were 21, you broke the law. If you cheated on a homework assignment, you may not have broken the law, but you enhanced your performance in a way seen as wrong.

I'm getting to the point where I think everyone should have the choice to take PEDs. Society doesn't stop people from abusing cigarettes or alcohol, and society doesn't keep you from overeating and becoming morbidly obese. So why should athletes be limited? Should we limit how often they go to the gym? How often they pract-- oh wait, the NCAA already does that. ;-) But seriously, if we really want the best athletes, why have any limits at all? Why limit age, sex, medical practice or drug use? If there's talk of legalizing and taxing marijuana, why not PEDs?

I've said in the past that Major League Baseball could have some fun with PEDs. Make the American League the All-Steroid League, which means you can keep the DH. The National League can be the clean league. Now, the All-Star game REALLY would have meaning.

Cheating has been celebrated in baseball for years. Cheating has been part of sports -- hell, LIFE -- for years. You'll never get rid of it.

And who will be getting Dodgers/Braves tickets for the end of July? This lady.