Steroids

Once again another major sports figure has bitten the dust. A-Rod has admitted that he has taken steriods because he felt the pressure to perform. The sad part is I am not surprised even midly that he has done this, because I think it has become the norm in sports. Every player wants a edge.

I do not even really blame the players themselves. I blame the owners and the Union.  I blame the owners because I believe that they know the majority of players take some performance enhancing drugs to give them a edge, and they are fine with it, because the players draw the fans. I blame the Union because in spite of them saying they want to protect the players they allow them to use drugs which they know in the end, does not help the player and really can hurt them ultimately.

Baseball by far is the one sport where stats and records mean the most. A-Rod certainly has hurt a lot of fans because they really believed he could be the one clean athlete to rewrite records and even if he is clean now no-one will believe him.

The truly sad part of all this is the fans will not change. They will still go to the ballparks and pay money to see the juiced athletes perform, in spite of names like McGwire, Bonds, Palmerio and Clemens fans still went up in attendance instead of down. So they will continue to get juiced, the fans will still go and the records will fall, but the one good thing is at least A-Rod admitted to taking something, and he is the only one so far to do so, so I guess that means something, just not to the true lover of the game.