Tell Me It Isn't So Joe?

So Who Is Next?

Big Poppy is the latest name to surface regarding the steroid era in baseball. Team mate Manny Ramirez’ name surfaced in a positive test result in an early 2000 random test. Later this year Ramirez was suspended for another suspect substance, while he relegated to denying the report. Now Poppy is saying he must of picked the substance up from a nutrition store? Okay let’s count few of the marquee players who are suspected thus far; Manny, Poppy, Sammy, Mark, Barry, Roger, Miguel, Alex, and on and on and on…… “Tell me it isn’t so Joe?” Are we not tired of hearing these allegations? Fans are mixed in the argument. Some say, “let’s move on”, other say. “Foul ball”, others say “Eject the #@%** cheaters”.

Poor pitchers who played it fair in the monsteroid era

We’ll it is water under the bridge or is it? Huge salaries have been paid, media hypotrophy (made huge amounts with TV ratings and home run race), and most of the money already spent, Championships won (Boston Red Sox), and records broken. But no one is mentioning, the ones who played fair and did not do the same. Remember the ones who had good seasons but were forgotten (Ken Griffey Jr and Greg Vaughn), due to the outrageous numbers the cheaters were putting up. Or what about the ones who had talent and promise but did not compromise but were let go and not signed. Poor pitchers who played it fair in the monsteroid era, their ERA’s got hammered. Many pitchers got the boot from baseball due to the steroid cheaters.

We’ll the freak show is over, No one is even coming close to sixty homers a year, and we see the scales tipping back to the youth again. Older pitchers body’s breaking down more frequently (like the old times –normally). Remember the hype supporters? They were quick to blame made in China baseballs, pitching talent decline, the small ballparks and thin air of expansion team's location like Colorado.

Steroid use has declined since, so has the numbers. If there are large aberrations in stats one way or another, we better suspect something is not right. If it looks to good to be true it usually is… In this case we were all duped.