The media and the fans have been ready and willing to bash the individuals who they've deemed deserve all of their steroid angst. As I think about the last 20 odd years of major league baseball I find it hard to pinpoint where it seems evident steroids infiltrated the national pasttime. The most glaring would be the Mark McGwire/Jose Canseco Oakland A's Bash Brothers.
Between the time of the Bash Brothers and home run 756 I wonder how many of our favorite players and least favorite too, have been on the juice. It might be altogether more justifiable to just erase the last 20 years of major league baseball completely.
Or maybe, even more appropriate than that, to embrace the last twenty years and not pin our hatred on one record breaking event that involved thousands of MLB participants. Don't you folks realize this is more than a one way street? Did you ever wonder how many of those 756+ home runs were hit off of a juiced up pitcher? A juiced up hitter versus a juiced up pitcher seems fair*. Hey wait, what if out of a few of those 756 the hitter wasn't on the juice at the time, but the pitcher was. Hmmm...
If the Mets happen to win the World Series with a PROVEN steroid user, a PROVEN cheat, I expect this World Series to go in the books with an *.
I have never understood the obsession some have with making scapegoats of people. The blame is widely shared here. The owners/commissioner knew and turned a blind eye. Baseball players willingly cheated and lots of them.
Keep this from happening again and everyone moves on. It really is that easy. It's the end of certain "all-time" records. Let's not treat this like it's genocide.
Sport, I think he might be referring to Willie Randolph, who might wish Mota was still using something to fix his 4.78 ERA and 1.248 WHIP.
And I think Mikers was referring to the hypocrisy of Americans in detesting performance-enhancing drug users while using loads of performance-enhancers themselves. Coffee, Red Bull, Viagra, etc. are just some examples of performance-enhancers, just like steroids.
Published sports column contributor, but I'm about the 560th ranked blogger on this site. I'll keep most of my posts sports related. My sense of humor exists to amuse myself. This has happened by default because I rarely seem to amuse anyone else. I'm ashamed that my favorite professional sports teams are from the city of San Francisco.
Favorite sports listed from favorite to least favorite: duck-duck-
goose, red-light green-light, freeze tag, marco polo, and hop-scotch.
