My Apologies To Barry Bonds

That's right after the current A-Rod scandal over steroids I have done some serious reflecting on what steroids means to the game of baseball. I haven't been a huge fan of baseball since the strike. No secret there but I do catch a game now and then when something big is going on.

So now that the one man who was supposed to erase Barry Bonds from the record books admitted to using steroids I had to wonder how exactly have steroids hurt baseball?

The season home run race between McGuire and Sosa was very compelling and lifted the entire game when droves of people were staying out of the stadiums. They brought their road show to your town and sold it out. More people followed that intense race than had paid attention in years! It was drama and good and because of steroids.

I say let major leaguers use steroids if they want to. Lets get the home runs back up there over sixty per year and not forty like it is now. Barry Bonds...well people bought tickets just to boo him! I don't like him, no use for him but now it isn't because of his steroid use. He continued to deny it while there is massive amounts of evidence proving him a liar.

Very similar to Roger Clemens who is STILL shouting from the highest mountain that he is clean while there is DNA evidence saying he is a liar. Steroids really hasn't hurt the game of baseball, sure it has hurt the players in their long term health but it made the game watchable. Athletes were able to jump higher, heal faster, hit the ball harder.

Now we have a game of singles instead of triples and homers. Bunts instead of doubles. Yawwwnnnn. I want to watch the closer who throws 100 mph for an inning again. I want to watch things that interest me and steroid free baseball just doesn't.

In today's economic times disposable cash is going to be saved instead of spent. Baseball will be screaming if not begging for that money to support massive payrolls. Stadiums will see their attendance drop dramatically as our recession deepens and the porkulus package fails. There are one hundred sixty two games, who is going to care about a White Sox - Oakland series in July as it is?

Teams will need that extra edge to make the game compelling again. They will need a McGuire or a Sosa race. They will need a Barry Bonds to boo. They need steroids.