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One Strike and You're Out
From left, Meredith Bentsen, Cameron Kostyack, Sam Muslin and Ruben Deleon discuss Palmeiro. "Our parents tell us never to do this stuff. It's wrong, it's cheating," said Cameron.
(By Katherine Frey For The Washington Post)
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The campers had heard Palmeiro's partial explanation -- that he did not "knowingly" take the steroid -- and they weren't buying it.
"It's not like he was sleeping and somebody came into his house and put the steroids into him," Sam said, rolling his eyes.
The kids said Palmeiro should have known that it wasn't right to cheat and lie. That's something they've known since preschool.
"Our parents tell us never to do this stuff. It's wrong, it's cheating," said Cameron Kostyack, 11, of Washington.
The coaches say "there's other ways to be good in baseball," said Ruben Deleon, 8, of Silver Spring, "like, by practicing and trying hard."
All the campers said the news about Palmeiro left them wondering, "Do all the other players take steroids, too?"
Cameron said he looks to the past, to players such as Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth, to find role models: "They did what they did before steroids were even around."
-- Fern Shen
