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Just in case there were any doubts still out there, the “secret” list of 104 names in baseball who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 has new members,according to the New York Times.
On that list includes Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, former Boston Red Sox teammates who were a part of the team’s 2004 and 2007 World Series championships.
Here we go again. Let the speculation begin. Does there need to be an asterisk on those titles?
Barry Bonds. Alex Rodriguez. Sammy Sosa. Roger Clemens. The amount of big names is ridiculous. Now Ortiz joins his former teammate Ramirez—who just came back from a 50-game suspension for testing positive for hCG—on that dubious list.
Any of this shocking? Didn’t think so.
The steroid era in baseball has tarnished the credibility of the sport, almost irreparably. No one can be trusted. Not Albert Pujols, not Josh Beckett, nor any other seemingly “good guy” in the league. No one.
The worst part about this? It’s been several years, and there seems to be no end in sight. MLB players still seem dumb enough to lie about what’s going on, but we all know they are going to get caught.
But you already knew all of this, didn’t you?
Here’s the point: No one should watch or care about MLB baseball anymore. Period.
Seems pretty harsh, doesn’t it? Well, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Unfortunately, this leaves us at a stand-still, because as long as people continue to support the game of baseball, nothing will change. The outcome might be that fans have less respect for today’s best players.
Yeah, like that’s really going to give Bud Selig nightmares.
As long as the league still gets its money, which it is, and there’s no salary cap, which drives the competition to unhealthy levels (literally), players will continue to do whatever they can to earn the biggest paycheck possible.
Major League Baseball, the Player’s Union, fans and even sports writers were hesistant to let the Federal Government intervene. The thinking was that MLB could handle the situation on its own.
Well, they were wrong.
The government needs to dish out major ramifications that MLB only has started to enforce. Hit them where it hurts: their pocketbooks. I’m talking huge salary penalties. And start enforcing mandatory drug testing every three or four weeks. And if anyone gets caught, they should be kicked out of the league for the rest of the year.
Just in case there were any doubts still out there, the “secret” list of 104 names in baseball who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 has new members,according to the New York Times.
On that list includes Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, former Boston Red Sox teammates who were a part of the team’s 2004 and 2007 World Series championships.
Here we go again. Let the speculation begin. Does there need to be an asterisk on those titles?
Barry Bonds. Alex Rodriguez. Sammy Sosa. Roger Clemens. The amount of big names is ridiculous. Now Ortiz joins his former teammate Ramirez—who just came back from a 50-game suspension for testing positive for hCG—on that dubious list.
Any of this shocking? Didn’t think so.
The steroid era in baseball has tarnished the credibility of the sport, almost irreparably. No one can be trusted. Not Albert Pujols, not Josh Beckett, nor any other seemingly “good guy” in the league. No one.
The worst part about this? It’s been several years, and there seems to be no end in sight. MLB players still seem dumb enough to lie about what’s going on, but we all know they are going to get caught.
But you already knew all of this, didn’t you?
Here’s the point: No one should watch or care about MLB baseball anymore. Period.
Seems pretty harsh, doesn’t it? Well, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Unfortunately, this leaves us at a stand-still, because as long as people continue to support the game of baseball, nothing will change. The outcome might be that fans have less respect for today’s best players.
Yeah, like that’s really going to give Bud Selig nightmares.
As long as the league still gets its money, which it is, and there’s no salary cap, which drives the competition to unhealthy levels (literally), players will continue to do whatever they can to earn the biggest paycheck possible.
Major League Baseball, the Player’s Union, fans and even sports writers were hesistant to let the Federal Government intervene. The thinking was that MLB could handle the situation on its own.
Well, they were wrong.
The government needs to dish out major ramifications that MLB only has started to enforce. Hit them where it hurts: their pocketbooks. I’m talking huge salary penalties. And start enforcing mandatory drug testing every three or four weeks. And if anyone gets caught, they should be kicked out of the league for the rest of the year.
Those are probably too extreme, right? Well, until this era is behind us, and we can be positive that players are clean, there’s no other solution that will work.
Curiosity takes this train of thought to other sports. Are basketball and football players just as guilty? At first, it wouldn’t seem so, since it isn’t an issue with those sports. Football players are tested on a regular basis, so there’s no way they can hide it. For now, anyway.
So why baseball? It’s because this issue was so unregulated, players got away with it for years before anyone noticed. That’s why these athletes are playing dumb, because what they are taking now was neglected back then.
Serves baseball right for having no credibility anymore.
