No Way! A Baseball Star on Steroids

At this stage in it’s unraveling, the mystery behind steroids in baseball has been solved: these low-down, greedy athletes did whatever they could, used whatever advantage they could get their dirty hands on, to get more and more money. Everyday there’s another player named in some report or book, or family member-- how ‘bout that?-- who decided they wanted their head to swell up and their balls to shrivel. But I’m not so convinced the players should be the target of all the blame.

In light of the recent A-Rod coming out party, I think the players should be let off the hook for this one. Come on, there’s no way the Yankees would trade for Rodriguez, and, pick up his hefty paycheck without knowing absolutely everything about him. Come on, I bet when I officially start working for Target they’ll have read this. The Yanks gave him, at the absolute least, the most intensive physical any of us could imagine. Do you really think they were completely clueless to what he was doing? Or was George doing the physicals himself back before he got too old? Seriously, people knew what was going on, and they allowed it, which is, in turn, why everyone was doing it in the first place.

Hmm, sounds like there are others who should step forward and take some of the blame. But, that probably won’t happen. So, what I say, is that the little asterisks that we’re going to have to put on all of the records set in the so-called steroids era (please, you know it’s eventually going to happen) will simply indicate a footnote*.



*Set in the Commissioner Selig Era.