Well, the Mitchell Report is out. Is anyone really shocked by its findings?
I'm not. Even the great Roger Clemens, who still is the greatest pitcher in the history of the game and a first ballot Hall of Famer no matter what the Mitchell Report has concluded, made the list.
I'm so bored with steriods. Can we move on? Major League Baseball has policies in place now. The steroid era is over. Are we going to continue to beat a dead horse and be shocked and befuddled over names and who did what? It's constant speculation. It's constant hearsay.
And since nobody - other that Barry Bonds lying to the grand jury - will be going to trial over the Mitchell Report are baseball fans going to keep talking about it. Are fans going to keep caring about it? Is the media (ESPN) going to continue to ask the same moronic questions?
And all of sudden clubhouse attendants, who are trying to keep themselves out of jail, are credible? Please. What happened to innocent until proven guilty. Not in the court of public opinion, which is the only court that matters.
I love how Major League Baseball is suddenly getting tough on steroids. I love how the media is now covering it like the JFK assisination (conspiracy? absolutely).
MLB turned its head in the late 1990s when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were hitting all those homers. The game was at a all-time high coming off the 1994 strike and MLB was loving it. Don't think for a second it didn't at least suspect there was a problem. MLB did and did nothing. It turned its head. That's why Bud Selig is the biggest idiot on the planet when it comes to being a commissioner of a major sport.
The same goes for the media. The media was busy kissing the butts of McGwire and Sosa that it failed miserably in breaking the story back then. Some sports writers even admit to missing warning signs and not following up on possible leads.
MLB and the media (ESPN) are a bunch of hypocrits. MLB is acting tough and the media is trying to make up for its past blunders. Geez, talk about hoping on and off the bandwagon.
And, of course, Bonds, who is guility in my book, is the ultimate punching bag. It's easy to pick on him because he's been nothing more than jerk his entire career. But now there's Clemens, the media's darling over the years. I wonder if there will be a double-standard or cries of racism? You bet there will be. It's coming soon to a Sports Center near you.
This whole steroid thing has been a mess from the get-go. It's been screwed up since day one. It's time to move on.
I, for one, will not let any steroid talk ruin my opening day in April. To me, now that the stupid Mitchell Report is out, the story is almost over. All that is left is Bonds' trial.
Yippie!