Are you upset over the steroids scandal in baseball? Do you feel ball players that took them should be punished?

If you do, how do you feel about movie stars? The ones who have their breasts enhanced with silicon. Those who get their lips filled, their buttocks enhanced, their wrinkles lasered away. Those that get the fat sucked out with lipo extraction. Those that get everything lifted, from face to eyelids. Those that have their fat schnozzes turned into perky pug noses.

What is the difference?

Please do not tell me that movie stars are working in a business. While ball players are playing a sport.

You must know by now that ball clubs are pure business. They are as much into business as the movie studios. And you ought to recognize by now that players are businesses. Yes, the players are.

Alex Rodriguez Incorporated will have sales of $275 million over the next 10 years. Those sales are for baseball. There will be many millions more for various endorsements.

When teams like the Yankees play the Tigers the “game” is between two large businesses. Each business uses subcontractors. Suppliers. Namely the players. Like Roger Clemens Pitching Inc. And Barry Bonds Long Ball Enterprises. And Rodriguez Inc.

So, are you surprised when businesses cheat? Or when they take any advantage they can, in order to succeed at their businesses?

You know many businesses bilk customers. You know some businesses steal information from competitors.

In the baseball business, teams steal signals and playbooks. And the companies known as ball players resort to corked bats. And juiced up baseballs. And steroids, to turn 40-home-run-hitters into 60-home-run-hitters.

You are not offended when a movie star “cheats” by having her body re-crafted. And by the way, that star is also incorporated. The star is a supplier to the movie studio.

You would not be offended to learn your favorite singer took steroids to improve her voice. You would not think she “cheated”.