A
game that takes all sorts of cunning, wit, skill, coordination, speed and yes, steroids. This sport is
America'
s pasttime and was at one point actually fun to watch, a
game where very few pitchers could throw in the 90s and it didn't even revolve around the longball (hard to imagine). These days, the question is who is the next big steroid bust going to be and how much money the trade will be worth. Unfortunately, the commissioner of baseball (Bud Selig) will never be able to truely enforce any regulation to clean up the
game because of the incredibly strong Major League Baseball Players Association (led by anti-testing proponent donald Fehr). The MLBPA also has kept baseball as the only professional sport without a hard salary cap, which allows powerhouse teams such as the
Yankees to buy all the high-market
talent.
It is still a fun sport, but it would be a bad idea for anyone to attend or watch any baseball games until the sport is cleaned up.
Rafael Palmeiro: "Let me start by telling you this: I have
never used steroids, period."
====10 days pass====
Rafael Palmeiro: "I have
never intentionally used steroids.
Never. Ever. Period. Ultimately, although I
never intentionally put a banned substance into my body, the independent arbitrator ruled that I had to be suspended under the terms of the program."
Jason Grimsley confessed to the use of human growth hormones, amphetamines and steroids in 2003. Grimsley openly admitted to having half of his net-worth invested in his
brother-in-law's pharmaceutical company and that he, Grimsley, was playing baseball as a hobby - implying that Grimsley is deeply entrenched personally and financially in widespread steroid use throughout Major League Baseball.
