Steroids
Am I all shocked that A-rod admitted to using roids? No not at all. My question is this who is to blame? Is it the owners selling out these big contracts for players? Is it the players for using the substance? Or is it us the first to point fingers fans?
First off there was no rule at the time saying you could not use these substances at the time in MLB. As a fan if you point fingers in this era of quote un quote steroid era, I tell you this it is human nature to find in edge at what you do. We are always first to throw stones at athletes, but never take a step back to see why they did these things or like we would never do it ourselves. I say this if you are sick of baseball and steroids stop going to the games. If fans don’t go to games they can’t pay these athletes.
As much as I love the sport and agree with what you say, it is hard for me to look at baseball within that era and have any comfort in the so called memories I have from that time. I envy the people my age who got to see Mickey Mantle, and Joe DiMaggio. The Roberto Clemente, Lou Gehrig, Hank Aaron and Nolan Ryan. we got to see great players in a time where we as people could believe that any of us can be that person. If you think of the steroid era, it seems that 3 of the top players of our era, players we looked up to, were all on performance enhancing drugs. The players we looked up to in baseball all cheated. Alex was supposed to be the “clean” player who was going to be the “tainted” Bonds. Everyone said he would vindicate Aaron’s record by surpassing Bonds. What now? What is to expect now? I appreciate Alex being honest and it does help, but the fact of the matter is the cloud will hang over his head. More importantly, it will hang over the head’s of fans who are looking for an athlete to be a consummate citizen. Someone who can show that any growing child with a dream, can grow up to the top of the sport with hard work and effort. Until then MLB has a whole lot of rebuilding to do.