Looks like A-Rod may get a lifetime ban (or "settle" on the side with MLB).
Either way, it looks like he's now the latest fall guy "villain" for MLB to scapegoat. Meanwhile though there's a much darker side to this picture as shadows have long ago uncovered that the entire league remains corrupted by PEDs from the top on down. But, of course that is not the narrative from ESPN or Bud Selig's legacy spinsters.
I wonder, will the league push to put a convenient asterisk next to Rodriguez' incredible stats since his rookie season? Are they going to refund people's tickets in New York? Seattle? Texas? Will the league return all of the TV money they made from the regular season, playoff, and World Series games he played in? Will there be a cash exchange for his jersey?
Maybe the league is bluffing to get his settlement? An ultimate power play move in the grand ego contest. And yes, maybe he's a big dickhead like Barry Bonds but that doesn't make him any more guilty than the league itself. They knew about 'Roids and PEDs since at least the 90s and looked the other way. Plus, as I've said before, the pitchers are/were on these performance enhancers as well. So why should Bonds have an asterisk? Why should Sosa or the former league darling Mark McGwire? The league made mega money off all of this. Who do you think made up 'the ball is "juiced"' theory? Yeah, ok. But, let's be honest. The pitches were coming in faster and the balls were leaving the yard harder, further, more frequently. And no, PEDs don't help a normal person become a pro ball player but they clearly can make an average player good, a good player great, and they can make a great player into one of the best that ever lived.
So, are Yankees fans willing to give up their 2009 world series win? Would the Giants give up their world series win in 2012 in which Melky Cabrera led them for half the season? How do we know who else was clean or dirty on those teams or any other squads? Plus, why should those teams give anything up when every team they were playing had users also? It's just like good ol' Lance StrongArmer. Yeah, he was/is by most accounts, a self absorbed, mean spirited, lying piece of shit, who ruined lives, on top of using PEDs to win those races. But so did all of his top competition. I don't think A-Rod ever threatened to ruin anyones life, did he? But yet MLB can freely disgrace players at will.
Until MLB steps up and implements a level of testing that is even stricter than the Olympics, it can't pretend like its doing all it can to eliminate PEDs but then single out certain offenders as if the league is so much more righteous. Even then you can't completely stop it as we've seen the science is always ahead of the testing. So what should they do, legalize it? Maybe. "A clean league and a juiced league." I wonder which will have better TV ratings?
As far as I'm concerned, at this point the entire league has an asterisk next to it. Especially the commissioners office and the team owners. Indeed everyone who plays Major League Baseball and NFL, we should just assume is on the juice or the dope. The guys that are clean, sucks for them. They may want to consider getting some good shit 'cuz they are cheating themselves playing against a bunch of guys who are on the beneficial end of the needle (or the cream) to the tune of Millions, not to mention wins.
But, a'las... This is America. And baseball is America's "favorite pastime." And both have some serious denial issues (First it was people of color, now its drugs. Coincidence?) Apparently here in the states, we don't racially profile black men, guns don't kill people, marijuana is evil (cigarettes and prescription meds are cool), and major league baseball players are clean (except for a few bad guys, that get caught). Oh, and we don't accept "spics" (from New York) to sing our national anthem at the All-Star game. As if we would tolerate immigrants in this country (unless they're on our favorite teams 40 man roster).
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