I. Do. Not. Care.
Baseball is not ruined. It is pretty damn far from ruined. Baseball is a sport, a reflection of the people who watch it and the society in which they live. And the society in which they live is one that is filled with all kinds of medicinal enhancements. Whether it be plastic surgery, artificial limbs or even freaking Viagra, we are living in a world where people can use drugs to change their lives, and that's it. That's the end. Here, we can all just shrug and move on with our lives. There is risk. There is reward. There is a game going on. And there are millions of dollars at stake.
Those who hate steroids in baseball advocate lots of reasons to flush performance enhancing drugs out of the sport. They site the sanctity of the game, the validity of the statistics and the effects PED use would have on our children as major reasons that we should spend our valuable time worrying about steroid use in baseball. These reasons are all dumb. Let's assault them, shall we?
Ah yes, we shall.
What Sanctity of the Game?
Major League Baseball is a monopoly, free from anti-trust laws. Its owners run private companies with two sets of books (at least). Major League Baseball teams make millions upon millions from our collective fanaticism. Its players have thrown games, cheated, gambled, stolen and even murdered. There is no sanctity of this game. That's like saying that there is a sanctity to Canasta, or Monopoly or Dominoes. It ain't true.
Valid for What?
If I hear one more barstool-sticking asshole tell me that steroids ruin the validity of statistics and records in sports, I will stick my bruise-breaking carrot collection in his fucking face. Statistics are reflective of work within an era, and we are in the steroid era. Thus, the statistics have merely evolved. Much like we have dead ball era stats, we now have steroid era stats. See, nice and neat and wrapped with a little bow. Can we all move on now?
Tell your Children I have a Carrot for Them
Steroids are bad. Baseball players are role models. Therefore, baseball player should not be allowed to do steroids. Or use chewing tobacco. Or have unprotected sex. Or cuss. Or smoke pot. Or laugh at the failings of others. You see where I'm going with this? If your children can't tell the difference between right and wrong, they will fuck up, and eventually someone will kill them, which eases the tax burden on us working folks. The circle of life and all that.
Steroids in baseball are not the end of the world, they're hardly even a big deal. Certainly, congress has more important issues to address than whether or not some big doofus shot steroids into his ass before going out and whipping a ninety mile an hour ball of leather past some other steroid-shooting doofus. Life's too short and drugs too common.
Let it go.
Free us from this debacle. We may now know the horrible truth.
But we still just want to see some dingers.