Monday, January 11, 2010

On Deck

In news from 2005, Mark McGwire came out today and admitted he used steriods in his record breaking season of 1998. Was anyone really shocked by this. Who is the small naive child who has been living under a rock and dropped his bowl of Kix when this "bomb" dropped. McGwire was the apple of baseball's eye for a little while. His jolly demenor and average look, he was the everyman....well the everyman that has Jose Canseco shoot 'roids in his ass in a bathroom stall. But who didn't watch McGwire and Sosa in 1998. It was magical (damn I'm so tired of that word, but it was). I remember McGwire launching the 62nd over the left field wall, line drive shot. But the curtain was pulled back and that curtain was hiding a major case of bacne and shrunken testes.

Baseball is a sport that prides itself on history. So what do you do with McGwire's numbers? Scrap them? What about Bonds, the poster child for roid abuse. He holds the two most storied records in MLB. And all you Bonds backer who proclaim the "never failed a test" moniker, look at McGwire's failed test number. So shut up. Honestly we need the all the names from the 2003 steroids survey that baseball used. I mean lets be serious here, it just a normal drug test that the players union where able to argue that it should remain private so more players would be willing. Ummmm yeah I can't turn down a drug test at my job just because it would be detrimental to my image. It really does so how spineless Bud Selig is. Image going to your boss and saying "Listen I'm not going to take your test okay. Yes I am aware that those are illegal, but screw off I'm only taking the test if nothing with happen to me." Yeah you would be out so fast, you might break the sound barrier. Show some backbone Bud, go one way or the other. Embrace it or throw away the records. Oh and he can. Go ahead ask Pete Rose about a commissioner's powers.

That being said, lets just embrace it. Put the asterisks near the record. Get the creme of the crop in the Hall. McGwire and Bonds weren't the only ones but the certainly played at a level that rose above all the other roid-heads. Put them in the Hall but explain on their bust why the asterisks and move on. I'm just getting tired of the admission that really mean nothing and do something Bud..............don't call it a tie.