by Sebastian Talon

Created on: December 15, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen....And Baseball fans everywhere,

It has finally been proven that Major League Baseball stars have been using Anabolic Steroids! Really? Oh my God! As if we didn't know that already. Please. Get real.

So what? Baseball has become a very competitive business. I'm not even sure if you could call it a sport anymore. Players get paid millions per year to play for a World Series ring. Owners pay more and more each year to hire the best players in the world, and that means that older players are in competition with younger players for their spot...and to keep their million dollar paychecks.

Of course they are using "Performance Enhancing" drugs. They have no choice if they want to keep their spot on whatever team they currently play for, and especially if they want another team to make a better offer when they become Free Agents.

I think the fans know this...and from the number of people who support professional Baseball, I think they understand the reality of the game in today's day and age. And it appears that many of them do not care. I think the only ones who are really bitching about the situation are those who have not been offered their Million Dollar Contracts to play a game.

So, will the Mitchell Report and Bud Selig's actions wreck the credibility of Major League Baseball? No, I don't think so. Baseball wrecked its own credibility years ago when the players went on strike. That was a truly rediculous situation. The fact that players dope is just a fact of life that everyone realizes but seems to want to ignore, until someone gets a bug up their ass and decides that the situation needs to be addressed.

Does anyone really care? And if they do, why? It's the fans that have created the situation in the first place by turning the game into a multi-billion dollar industry, instead of a friendly game and entertainment for a lazy Sunday, summer afternoon.

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