[Man50D]

I digress for a day from discussing Conservative issues and liberal tooling to comment on the steroid use in baseball and how it has destroyed the legacy of our great game...

It may destroy the organization Major League Baseball but game won't be destroyed.

[neb52]

Sorry the “professional” players destroyed MLB and the ‘94 strike did it for me.

[snarks_when_bored]

A person’s got to be damned desperate for entertainment to pay the price of a ticket to a professional sporting event these days...and his threshold for being entertained has got to be pretty low, too. Who really cares what the guys from “Thugz-R-Us” do?

[OafOfOffice]

I think steroid use was bigger than we think. I think it is dangerous for them who use it.

This will harm A Rod more than anyone else. Some got caught and they will pay the price for everyone.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Some of my best childhood memories were on a baseball field.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Pardon me your disappointments in the game, because it is just a game.

Would any of you never become interested in it, in the first place, because of the Black Sox scandal of 1919? Why, it ruined the game forever!

How about the utter swinishness of Babe Ruth, partying with a half dozen hookers, then swilling a quart of orange juice and vodka while gobbling a dozen hot dogs, before hitting a fastball hard enough to turn it into powder? Shameful. Immoral. Ruined the game forever!

Can anybody say that they get more excitement out of typical infield plays than when some somebody knocks one out of the park? Most people don’t want to watch a pick-up softball game when they could be watching pros do what ordinary people can’t.

Yes, some players used steroids to play better. But that’s better play. They got away with it for a while, and everybody got to see some better play. They raised the bar, albeit unnaturally. But that will make it so much better when somebody beats their records, naturally.

Don’t sweat it. The game is still the game.