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What should be done to Major League Baseball players found to have used steroid use?/Moscow-Pullman Daily News
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JamesBond on February 12 at 9:19 a.m.
I think the best thing would be for baseball to just go away. It’s a dead game, booring as hell, and populated by a bunch of out-of-shape fat guys and steroid freaks.
Escapee on February 12 at 7:54 p.m.
Baseball just go away? That’s awfully drastic, but I suppose if I couldn’t watch/listen to the Mariners’ games (or any other baseball games), I’d have a lot more time for other things. If you’re bored by baseball, though, you’ve always been bored by it. Baseball games aren’t dictated by the clock; ‘it ain’t over ‘till it’s over’. I grew up watching baseball. And, face it, with all the bad news out there, it’s nice to focus on sports, even if the players are out-of-shape fat guys who are steroid freaks.
hhuseland on February 12 at 10:51 p.m.
First, we have to get ride of the double standard. Sure A-Rod shouldn’t have done what he did, but back then we had a three or four way race for the home run record and he didn’t want to get left behind.
What irks me though, is that when a player mans up, admits he did wrong, he is punished at least indirectly by baseball. I wasn’t impressed by the commissioner when he was unable to differentiate between the ones that have admitted use and those that are remaining silent. At this point, I can’t see any other players admitting to anything. Either publish the entire list or forget it. It wasn’t a crime back then, it wasn’t against the rules back then. Monday morning quarterbacking, it seems, is not limited to football.