Steroid talk

There is a list with 100+ players who tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). This test was in 2003. MLB wanted to see how many players were on PEDs before it implemented its Steroid policy for the first time the next season (apparently a lot players were on this stuff). So far, there have been a few big names on the list.

Before the start of the 2009 season, Alex Rodriguez was leaked from the list. Back in 2007, he denied ever using or needing steroids. Two years later, he's guilty. There was a fairly large amount of upheaval over his name being released - for a variety of reasons. A-Rod was the man who was supposed to save baseball. He was supposed to hit 800 HRs and leave all the steroid talk in the past. He was the savior. Apparently not. Now, just a few months after A-Rod's name was leaked, we found out that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz are also on the list. This means that two of the players who helped the Red Sox win the World Series in 2004 and in 2007 were juiced. Where is the public outrage? Why are fans continuing to fill seats? Manny gets standing ovations in LA and I have heard that the Red Sox fans are continuing to support Ortiz, maybe more now than ever. Are you f**king kidding me? These players, along with 97 others, have ruined what once was the great American pastime. Does anyone else see this? Am I the only one?

In baseball, numbers are paramount. At the end of your career, you have numbers next to your name. This is how you are judged. If you have 500 HRs, they say that's a good mark to decide Hall of Fame eligibility. If you have 3,000 hits, you have the same HOF mark. Because of the need to "keep up" or because "I was caught up in a culture", these numbers are forever skewed. FOR. EV. ER. There is no possible way to make things right. In my mind, 755 is the career best for Home runs and 61 is the season best. No one who was not on some PEDs has ever beat either of these numbers. This bothers me to a great extent. In 100 years, baseball will be over 200 years old and people will look back on this time with a different perspective than we have now. I just hope in the year 2100, they still remember Aaron, DiMaggio, Mantle, Musial, Gibson, Rose, and NOT Rodriguez, Ramirez, McGwire, Sosa, Ortiz, Giambi and whoever else is hiding behind the list.

One other thing: release the list in its entirety NOW. The sooner we get past this, the better. At least one Hall of Famer agrees with me.