Here are some of my thoughts on what has occurred in sports that I have seen over the past couple of days. Lets address the monkey in the room and his name is A-Rod or as everyone seems to call him A-Roid. I have gone back and forth with this issue in my head. In the public eye he is a cheater and should be thrown out of baseball. This is the same public that was cheering these guys 15 years ago when balls were flying out of the parks. So the fans need to get off there high horse and relax. You are not the judge juror or executioner in this case. Bud Selig himself turned a blind eye plenty of times on this issue. Could you imagine what the sport would be like if Jose Canseco didnt right the book and flip on all of the players. Yes he did it save his own rear end but look at this way nobody including him will ever be in the HOF and nor should they be.If or when I ever do have kids and take them to Cooperstown where I have gone a couple of times in my life I do not want to see these guys next to Ruth Mantle Mays Gehrig Seaver Robinson Johnson and the rest of the great players that were inducted and played the game right. I have heard people say that there are wife beater and drunks in the HOF and I agree but how does that change the game on the field?? Steroids do change the game. It also changes longevity of players careers. I believe whatever happens to A-Rod is entirely on him. I do not believe that this is a sad day for baseball but as a fan a great day for baseball. Get these guys out of the game. Get the guys in the minors that are cheating out of the game. There are players playing with false names. I know quick change of subject but MLB needs to catch that as well. That is incredible that players can play under a false name. How much integrity is that? Absolutely none. I am a supporter that Pete Rose who agreed to the lifetime ban get into the HOF before any of these guys. I even went so far and said maybe we shouldnt allow any players who played from 1998-present into the game. That means guys like Jeter Glavine Maddux Smoltz Johnson Griffey etc etc will not get into the HOF. We have no idea how many guys beat the system. Im assuming that Jeter is clean. He never changed. But now in support of A-Rod he never once failed a legit MLB drug test. That is the only thing that can somewhat hold him up and thats thin ice. So at the end of the day if MLB rounded all of these players up like cattle and threw them out than I would absolutely support that.
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