The Hard Truth About America's past time

  Here we go again.  It’s time for Bud Selig to take another victory lap.  According to a source, quite a few players are supposedly going to be suspended from MLB for  second offenses regarding their involvement with a known steroid distribution clinic.  Some of the names allegedly on the new list include Ryan Braun, Melkey Cabrera, Gio Gonzales and Alex Rodriguez.  You know my stance on steroids.  I never believed that the steroid era tainted the game of baseball because I’ve never believed that the game of baseball was entirely pure to begin with.  Think of the rigors of a 162 game season ladies and gentlemen.  Do you honestly think that MLB athletes, however physically gifted they are, are immune to the rigors of a schedule that is the equivalent of a meat grinder?   For those of you who are crying about the innocence and the purity of baseball being tainted, you need to ask yourself one simple question.  Are you blind or are you just naïve?  How do you think that the guys on your favorite team get through road trips where they board a plane in the wee hours of the morning and then play, say, an early doubleheader or a business man’s special?  It’s the nature of baseball and all of this grandstanding with the so called discipline and the testing process is just Bud Selig’s little dog and pony show designed to make sure that Congress doesn’t come in and smack him around again.  The same people who felt duped about that magical season when Sosa and McGuire chased the home run record are now duping themselves into thinking that Bud Selig has actually cleaned up the game of baseball forever.  Well, he hasn’t.  There’s an 18 year old prospect using Adderall for goodness sake.  If Selig wanted to clean up the game and make himself seem like something more than a paper tiger, he’d suspend the cheaters AND strip them of their salaries.  Why do you think that guys like Ryan Braun cheat?  I’ll tell you why.  Because after guys like Braun and Sosa are tarred and feathered by those living in a fantasy world of idealism and role models, one fact remains.  Braun and the others, if they ARE suspended, are essentially going on a paid vacation.  It’s the same as it ever was, stop deluding yourselves.  I love baseball too and I’m not crazy about MLB athletes cheating but there has to be some semblance of prospective here.  Stop with the mock outrage and the self righteousness.  Baseball is dirty and it always will be.  It’s been dirty since the Black Sox threw that World Series in 1919.  It was dirty when Ty Cobb was basically betting on baseball and I’d venture to say that it was dirty when Micky Mantle and those guys were around.  And if you think that’s sacrilege, then you tell me how a man comes to the park everyday with a hang over and has enough concentration left to clobber a white baseball into orbit.  You know the answer, you just need to admit the truth.