Just when you thought Major League Baseball was finally
starting to get ahead of this whole steroids and performance enhancing drugs
thing you find two players getting suspended at the Major League level for 80
games each. In recent weeks the Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello
was suspended for 80 games while vehemently denying any use and any allegations
while the Miami Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon was also popped on a failed
drug test this week. This game is not getting any cleaner the drugs are just
getting harder to detect and the players are getting sneakier which could
complicate things when the two sides go sit down at the table to talk about the
subject and a new collective bargaining agreement this winter.
It’s not just the Major Leagues that are struggling with PED
use and suspensions but it’s minor league baseball as well. You can go on
Baseball America once a month and see the list of two or three, sometimes even
four or five, players that got suspended that month for PED use. You know why?
In the minor leagues it’s almost worth the risk to do it at least once. I’m not
condoning the use of steroids nor am I making it out to be okay that they are
using it but some players you have to remember are international free agents.
They left everything they had and everything they knew to come here on the off
chance they may make it to the show and they have very little to lose and the
world to gain by using and not getting caught. The Major League players should
know better especially MLB players like Dee Gordon who just signed a monster
contract extension with his club.
Truth be told the game may never be clean because the world
will never be free of dirty people looking to cheat the system and exploit
anything and everything with every opportunity that they can. We are living in
a world where people will cheat and exploit something as simple as a video game
or a math test. We are living in a world where lawyers can be vilified but at
the same time they can rise to fame and stardom, remember Johnny Cochran? We
are living in a world where if you’re not cheating you’re not trying and if
you’re not trying you’re not feeding your kids as well as the next guy. I may
be over simplifying this thing but I am only doing so to prove a point and that
point is this. The game will never be clean. Every time we think it’s clean we
read about someone getting popped for drugs and steroids. We just have to deal
with it.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)