Saturday, February 7, 2009

The steroids age

I wish it didn't have to be this way. I can't help but be a little pleased with myself. I hoped for a long time that the investigations into the steroids past needed to stop. I thought they needed a better prevention technique to make sure it didn't happen again, but baseball nation did not want this. Today it was released that Alex Rodriguez, the new king of baseball, tested positive for steroids in 2003. This means that once again the newest home run records will go down with an asterisk. Many players that looked to be guaranteed hall of fame inductees will now have to sit and wonder about what could have been. I have news for you. It's not going to get any better. The more they dig, the more they will realize that they waited much too long. Too many players have gone through unnoticed. You will have to completely remove the last ten years and the next ten to make sure all your precious statistics are legitimate.
Here is my solution. Granted I don't know enough but I feel like it is going to get worse. Don't exclude the players achievements because they used steroids. Yes they got bigger than those guys from the glory days, but the defenders are bigger too. Roger Clemens proves that it is not only the hitters who are juicing up. The hitters are hitting against bigger, stronger, and faster pitchers as well. Stop the witch hunt and just let baseball be baseball.

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