A-Ro(i)d and the Steroid Era

Well well well. A-Rod has admitted to using steroids for 3 years. Everybody is up in arms over this news, while it is disappointing that the one of the best players of our generation is now a liar and cheat, it isn't the most shocking news ever. I mean come on, who didn't see this coming. First the new home run king, Bonds was using, then the best pitcher of our generation, the Rocket was using, and now the guy everybody was hoping would take the home run throne from Bonds was found to be cheating. While I'm not condoning steroids, if guys like McGwire and Sosa weren't using them and hitting a record number of home runs, nobody would be watching baseball. The strike almost killed the sport and steroids brought it back from the dead. It resurrected attendance and gave everybody something to cheer for. Jose Canseco said two years ago that Alex was using and he denied it then, if Canseco was right about everybody else why didn't everybody believe him on A-Rod? Possibly because he is a juiced up freak with worse tatts than Tyson. (Did anybody else see the pics of him fighting Danny Bonadouche. The match ended in a freakin tie for god's sake.)

If A-Rod got outed for this list of 104 players, why haven't we heard some of the other names? It was supposed to be a confidential list, I want to know which guys I cheer for every game was on the list. For how often the Crew turns over players, the chances of them still being on the team are slim to none.

Nobody is perfect, Babe Ruth was a drunk womanizer, and Ty Cobb was a prick, but they didn't cheat. We already have the best pure hitter, Pete Rose, not in the hall for gambling. And I believe he would be in if he had admitted and apologized right away, instead of denying it for so many years. And Shoeless Joe banned for supposedly throwing the World Series. Now we have A-Rod, the Rocket, Bonds and McGwire; who should be allowed into Cooperstown, but they probably won't get in. They surely won't get in right away as was the case with Big Mac. It's too bad because these are some of the greatest players we will ever see play, they were great before they took the steroids and didn't need them. They took the easy way out, like they say, "If you can't beat them, join them."

Ronald