One Cheater Chasing Another Cheater

The irony has gotten so thick in Major League Baseball's hunt for steroid users that even your fog lights won't get you through all this mess.

Not even a season ago, Barry Bonds' critics were praising Alex Rodriguez to be the guy who would shatter the tainted all-time home run record. That was until A-Rod turned into "A-Roid."

Just last week, Alex Rodriguez admitted to using a banned substance, though he wouldn't clarify what particular substance, to ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons.

He claimed to only use this substance from the 2001-2003 seasons, but whether that claim holds any kind of ground may never be known.

Some people even want to praise Rodriguez for admitting to using instead of taking the route of other alleged, or proven, steroid users.

Rodriguez already admitted to lying in a 2007 interview with Katie Couric, so how do we know he's not lying now? 

He could just be admitting it to save his legacy and only telling part of the truth. For me, the claim that he only juiced from 2001-2003 cannot be completely held as the truth.

But now an even bigger possible problem arises. What if A-Rod breaks what is already considered a false record?

As of now he sits at 553 career home runs, which is just a mere 209 short of Bonds's home run record. Rodriguez will only have to average 30 home runs in approximately the next seven seasons to shatter that record.

That means that most likely in the next seven season, if not sooner, we will have one cheater beating out another cheater for arguably the most hallowed record in all of sports. Personally, that makes me sick to my stomach.

If we stick an asterisk next to Bonds's record, one will go next to A-Rod's record as well. So then we will have two asterisks at the top of the record books, and where does it stop from there?

There are still 103 other names on baseball's list of players who had a positive test, and at least a few of those will be big name, home-run sluggers.

Even though baseball has started cleaning the mess, they might as well have started cleaning the White House, and only the front hallway is cleaned so far.