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Baseball and Steroids: Enough Already!!

The ongoing saga of steroids and baseball is about to come to a head in the next month or so with the much-anticipated release of Senator George Mitchell’s report on steroid use in baseball. This report is expected to include names of suspected steroid abusers and is certain to send shockwaves through the sport. To this news I say two things. One, get it over with already. It looks like we are going to have to endure day after day of speculation until we see this report and it is already tiring. Either release the report now or tell us when you will so we don’t have to keep asking “is this the day?” everyday from now until Christmas. Secondly, I won’t be one waiting with baited breath for this report because my reaction will be the same as it has always been to this issue: who cares? I mean this report and the probable information in it is so overblown it is beyond ridiculous. Do you actually think true baseball fans like me will stop watching baseball because of some stupid report that was only produced after the fact because the sport got embarrased by a player it considered a blacksheep (Jose Canseco) when he blew the lid off this issue? Nonsense. It’s not going to happen. The reason it isn’t happening is because baseball’s drug testing program has no teeth or credibility. It does not call for blood testing so they are unable to test for substances such as HGH (Human Growth Horomone) which is normally a big substance of choice among the alleged cheaters. If you don’t allow blood testing what is the point of testing for banned substances? It is for this reason that I am going to look at the names in this report and then yawn and move on. Until baseball (particularly the holier-than-thou player’s union) introduces blood testing into it’s drug program there really is nothing to talk about. Guys that want to cheat will still be able to by simply using HGH rather than other types of performance enhancers. So do the math. Unless you eliminate all roads to cheating the drug program has no credibility so why is everyone ready to get upset over who cheated? It makes no difference. The lack of blood testing leaves open the likelihood that there are still cheaters, so what has this program really accomplished? In my view, not very much. And it is for this reason I will view Mitchell’s report with indifference when it is made public. In a word, my message to baseball is give me a call when it institutes a legitimate drug testing program with some teeth and integrity. Until then, stop trying to look like you are cleaning up the sport when in reality you are applying a band-aid to an open wound.

Welcome To My Blog!

My name is Paul and those who know me know I have a lot to say, some of it good and some of it bad. Either way, I believe in telling it like it is. I know what politically correct is but there is no place for it here. People nowadays are so afraid to say anything for fear of saying the wrong thing. I hope you find this to be a place where you can ponder some straightforward ideas instead of the usual B.S. I am here to write about my passion and interest in sports. The blogs you will see here promise to be unpredictable and in no specific order. (Kind of like life) I never know from day to day what inspires me to write but I plan to use this as an outlet to explore that. What you read will be from the heart so hopefully you will come along for the ride and get something out of it. Will I write everyday? Probably not. But that’s part of the excitement. You never know what you might read next or when!