HT's Two Sense

I've been wanting to start writing again, really gotten off track in the last year. I've been busy with kids sports, a new job, and a health issue. Hoping to have everything a little more under control now, I'm going to start posting my "Two Sense" twice a week. Just some random thoughts about Sports, and anything else going on in my head.

I'm really starting to get annoyed at this Steroids issue in baseball. I was absolutely delighted to see A-Fraud's name come out as testing positive and watch him try to cover his lies of the past, in fact, I am in favor of all 100+ names on that ever elusive "list" that keeps getting leaked. The most recent name? Sammy Sosa. Yeah, it just happened to come out right after he officially announced his retirement and said he will wait for his call to the Hall. Interesting timing, huh?

I know that there are several "sides" to this Steroid issue. You have the people that say, "everyone was doing it, we just have to accept it as part of that Era and move on", you have the ones that say "I'll support them as long as they've never had a positive test", and some that just are so on the fence, they change their mind everyday. Here's where I sit, and always have: Innocent until proven guilty. If you have a positive test, you are guilty and will not get into the Hall of Fame. I don't care how naive or young you were, you screwed up and that's your punishment. It's an illegal drug, and you chose to use. You make a bad decision, you pay the consequences. In my opinion, it's really the only fair way to look at it. I don't really like though, that about 100 other players are coming off scott-free unless their names get leaked. How bad would it be if names like Griffey Jr, Thome, Jeter, or Pujols are on that list? Is it fair that A-Fraud and Slammin Sammy are the only ones indicted?

Baseball and the Union need to come clean, release all the information they have, and move on. Like it or not, baseball has a pretty decent policy right now, one of the strongest in Sports.....just ask Manny after he gets back from "maternity leave". Truth is, over the last two years, baseball has had less suspensions than Football, which means players are now scared of the testing. Now, you will always have HGH and other stuff that is not detectible, but so does every other sport. Baseball shouldn't be held to a higher standard, but they should come clean with everything and let the sport ride out the waves.