As far as I’m concerned, it’s over. In the past year, the two biggest stars in Major League Baseball have proven to the public that they cannot compete at the level we’ve come to expect from them without cheating. Cheating. It’s abhorrent! The A-Rod thing was kind of funny, because I hated him already and everyone was so shocked, but Manny Ramirez is a media spectacle and seeing him be suspended for 50 games only seems like an unfortunate extension of his persona.
Of course, the problem is that professional baseball might have just surrendered its last shred of credibility. I can’t imagine looking at the organization as a respectable one after this. Hardcore baseball fans—a group to which I do not belong—can’t possibly be sitting in front of their TVs thinking ‘no big deal.’
This is the advent of a make-or-break era for the MLB. Nobody in the league can be trusted, which is too bad for the honest players. Without instilling the rules already in place in the NFL and the NBA, there’s no point in even believing that baseball players are legitimate competitors.
3 years ago