Steroids in Baseball

Before I begin, let me just say, as much as I enjoy professional sports, they are nothing more than entertainment.

The outcome of a game, win or lose, in no way affects my life. Professional sports are nothing more than the original “reality” T.V. show.

With that being said, on to steroids in baseball…

Anyone who used steroids prior to 2003 did not break any baseball rules because baseball had no rules banning them. So there is nothing to do to any player who admits or is suspected of using before 2003.

All of baseball is to blame for turning themselves into a joke.

And loud mouth idiots like Curt Shilling need to shut up. He keeps running his mouth about how great he is because he never used any drugs. And he keeps talking about how records of “cheaters” should be forfeited.

That’s just stupid. If you take away individual records for the last ten or fifteen years, then you just need to wipe out every stat from every player and team for that period.

How many W’s did Shilling get as a result of a home run that was hit by a steroid user? Shilling wasn’t talking about the evils of steroids ten years ago. And he wasn’t talking about them when his team was winning the World Series.

Using Shillings logic, if someone from his World Championship team was found to have used steroids then his teams records and championship should be erased from the record books.

It is what it is… Baseball made itself look stupid. Not individual players. From top to bottom baseball created this PR mess they are faced with. And only they can fix it, if they really even want to fix it.

Barry Bonds is most likely an asshole. But is the black eye on baseball his fault? It’s his fault just as much as it is the owners’ fault and Bud Seligs’ fault.

And in the end, baseball, like all professional sports, is nothing more than an entertaining distraction from real life.