Like almost everything else in our American culture, this country our USA. Like everything else forgive my exaggeration, (I am depressed) almost everything else, Baseball has been corrupted by greed.
Why do our eyes continually have to be glued to A-Rod, Clemens, Ramirez on and on and on....?
Why is their one man who still sits in charge of the whole sick thing?
The man who was their when steroids began, who was their through the full scale jubilation of a million flashbulbs as Mark McGuire and then Barry Bonds ripped through Babe Ruth and Roger Maris records. Didn't we all know. I did, it didn't appeal to me the whole spectacle, their was something we all knew about those records and something we all knew about these substances, steroids. It was public knowledge.
It was public knowledge and the man who ruled Baseball did nothing. He loved every minute of the sell out crowds, he loved every minute of the media frenzy. Big money isn't that what leadership is about?
Then in the face of the truth as the weight of the fact that the world gradually wakes up to the fact that, no, cheating cannot be tolerated. It just doesn't work. How does the man responsible
for the sick show handle it? You do what politicians have perfected. Let's put together a commission or maybe an independent outside investigator find out who all those bad boys were who were giving our game a bad name. George Mitchell, the venerable one, a one time or was he currently on the Red Sox Board of Directors. Anyways hundreds of players were named in what seemed to me to be pretty much a witch hunt, no Red Sox players were named.
Still it's not over.
MLB did not have random testing for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs prior to 2003, though Selig circulated memos during the 1990s stating that the use of those drugs by players was strictly prohibited and could be cause for discipline. The players association declined to collectively bargain the issue at the time. <>
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