Go ahead and add A-rod to the steroid list, that is, MLB players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. Let’s face it…Major League Baseball is done. How can fans be expected to get behind any player or team after the things that have come to fruition the last few years? I’m not alone in feeling cheated. My hard-earned dollars have been spent in what I thought was watching and supporting superstar athletes doing what no one else can do using nothing more than raw skill and talent. I was wrong. So were you.
Bud Selig has surpassed Gary Bettman as the worst commissioner in all of major league sports, ever. The MLB Player’s Union is no better. They are the reason why fans have been kept in the dark for so long, and the truth may never come out due to the Union’s stranglehold over factual information and refusal to comply to rules that would benefit the game and its deserving fans. The only reason this latest news came about was because the Federal government, in their BALCO investigation, had seized a report from the Commisioner’s office, previously kept hush hush between Selig and the Union. Within the newly surfaced report was a list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids during the 2003 season. To the surprise of many, Alex Rodriguez, who had won the MVP award and batting title that year, made the list. His response to the allegations…”You’ll have to talk to the Union”.
You can’t be surprised by Rodriguez’s response. The Player’s Union will continue to protect its members and keep the truth from the paying public as long as the money keeps coming in. Maybe its time to take a stand, baseball fans.
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