Say it ain’t so Manny.
Last year I began collecting Alex Rodriguez cards… then he was busted for steroid use.
This year I began collecting Manny Ramirez cards… and the word is that he was just busted as well.
Are all the good players today druggies?
I really hope Pujols, Santana, and Ichiro aren’t involved in the stuff. That might just make me stop following baseball for another 15 years.
As many of you might have already heard, A-rod was caught taking steroids in 2003. Not only that, but he was just one of 104 players in Major League Baseball who tested positive for steroids in 2003. And how many more took steroids but weren’t caught? Think about it, if 104 players tested positive in 2003, that’s 3 or 4 per team. It’s no wonder why so many people have been losing respect for baseball and moving on to football or video games.
So how can we fix this? That is my question of the day. Major League Baseball needs to take swift and harsh action against these players because it not only harms baseball as a whole, but it also causes them to lose tremendous amounts of money from lost customers. And yes, baseball fans are “customers” in the eyes of Major League Baseball.
If I were the baseball commissioner, this is what I’ll do:
1) Any player testing positive for steroids (or partaking in any other form of cheating) will be suspended from all professional baseball for an entire season. That should dash any player’s hopes of breaking any all-time records or making loads of cash as a result of taking steroids.
2) Repeat offenders should be banned from the Hall of Fame. Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned for taking a bribe. Pete Rose was banned for betting on the game. So why should the form of cheating known as steroids be any different? It’s still cheating, and these players should also be banned from the Hall of Fame.
Major League Baseball is a business just like any other business. If consumer trust and integrity are lost, the company’s profits take a hit until they clean up. Baseball will never come back to its former glory until it cleans up.