Topical Rant #2 (MLB)

This is a little off topic, as it pertains to the general topic of this blog, though in all fairness, people are talking about getting congress involved with the whole mess. At any rate, let’s talk steroids and baseball. First things first, congress should not be involved on any level. We have enough legitimate problems in this country that need addressed (health care, education, the economy, to name a few) without wasting the time of the people who make the laws and taking everyone’s focus away from matters which are more important than what boils down to entertainment. What’s next? A hearing on why NBC green lights crap sitcoms? 

I digress. The real reason I wanted to talk about this was to take the opportunity to rip the people who let this happen on their watch, and now are willing to pin the whole ordeal on the shoulders of a couple big names. Arod might have said things which are difficult to believe, but he did touch on something that is absolutely true, which is that the culture was such that people were using. MLB wasn’t trying to stop it, even a few years back when the single season home run records were being shattered by obvious users, because they were glad the fans were coming back after the shortened season took some momentum away from them on an economic level. When I see Bud Selig say pretty much anything on the subject I want to punch his empty head. His name should be synonymous with the steroid era more than any one player. He has no credibility, and he shouldn’t even still be the commissioner of baseball, because all of the blind eyes turned and the profiting off of the cheaters while pretending to be ignorant make the faux outrage extremely hard to swallow. Fire Bud, and move on from steroids for good, but get someone in there who wasn’t involved with baseball during the era of steroids or the following era of excuses and pin the blame.

I’m out.