Mr. Chairman: Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Here To Stay

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It should have been called the juiced player era.

Indulge me for a second.  Brady Anderson played for 16 years.  He hit 210 career home runs.  50 of those were in 1996. 

Sammy Sosa hit more than 40 home runs once before the age of 30.  After age 30, he hit 401 of his 609 career home runs.  That is 66 percent of his home runs AFTER the age of 30.

And Barry Bonds?  If there was ever a fraud it is him.

I am leaving a bunch of names out of this article, simply because you already know the names.  But my point is this, how did anyone not see this?  Did everyone have their heads in the sand?

Did the sportswriters really not know what was going on?  How about the owners, the players, the “commissioner”?  Nobody knew what was happening?

Bologna!  They knew.  These players, and the game of baseball, are getting exactly what they deserve.  The players would never rat each other out.  There is a “brotherhood” and I get it. 

It doesn’t behoove the owners to rat out their own players.  They want to win; at least most organizations want to win.

And Major League Baseball needed the power numbers.  It brought back the interest, and the fans.  Performance enhancing drugs were good for business baby.

 Then the negative publicity started and Bud Selig, the “commissioner”, caved.  He is appalled.  Alex Rodriguez shamed the game?  Seriously?  Shamed the game?  Bud Selig is as much to blame but he isn’t man enough to admit it. 

Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire are all gone from the game.  Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi have become largely irrelevant.  We need a whipping boy. 

Somehow, the tests results that were supposed to be confidential were leaked.  My friends, I give you A-Rod.  The new poster child for all that is wrong with the sport that is supposed to be good and pure.

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