The Arod Vendetta

I want to say a brief word about the Arod situation, and then I never want to hear about it again.

Major league baseball officials are preparing to meet with Arod to discuss his use of performance enhancing drugs. Bud Selig has said Arod’s actions were shameful. What a hypocrite!

Bud Selig was the one running the show when the steroids epidemic happened. He and his fellow owners were willing to turn a blind eye to the situation as long as Mark Magwire and Sammy Sosa were putting fans in the seats. Now Selig is shocked. Rather like Claude Raines in Casablanca, who was shocked to find there was gambling at Rick’s.

I think we can all agree that performance enhancing drugs were bad for baseball. The records set in the late 90s will always be viewed as tainted. But baseball appears to have cleaned up the situation, so ENOUGH ALREADY. The media fixation with what happened in the past is pointless now.

We could all demand that the list of 104 players who tested positive in 2003 be released. We could endlessly speculate about how David Ortiz suddenly went from a scrub in Minnesota to a star in Boston at age 27. But why bother.

It’s time to put steroids behind us. Baseball season is coming. Bud Selig should get a life.

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