Poor A-Rod...and the rest of us

What can you believe anymore? Now A-Rod has tested positive for roids. I think that among the baseball community it was just a given that A-Rod was clean and that he would break the all-time home run records, currently held by Barry Bonds (though most still give credit to Hank Aaron, but not me). I have never been a big A-Rod fan, though I think he is a heck of a baseball player. Let me point out that I wrote that in the present tense, because I still think that he is a heck of a baseball player. Anyone will tell you that taken roids can make you quicker and stronger, but it can't make you hit a baseball. I think that A-Rod won't be anywhere close to the player he has been because I really don't consider him to be mentally strong, but I hope I am wrong about that.

Don't get me wrong I feel just awful that he, for lack of a better word, cheated. It is disappointing, but there is a silver lining in it for me. The funny thing about this whole thing with roids in baseball is that it centered around Barry Bonds being the biggest cheater in the world. Guess what folks he wasn't alone. Other, and I bet many, hitters were cheating and even pitchers were cheating. Let's now go back to the conversation that talks about Bonds being one of the greatest players of all times. When someone asks me, who the best player of my generation is, I say Barry Bonds. 

I am a big Bonds fan, so I wish him well. I think that baseball writers are going to end up looking foolish over all of this by making Bonds out to be such a bad guy, while their darlings Roger Clemens and now A-Rod were probably more guilty then Bonds. Bonds likely will go away free and the writers will still not let him in the Hall of Fame. I hardly recognize the Hall of Fame as it is without Pete Rose, add on to that Mark McGwire and maybe Barry Bonds, and while baseball will still be the best sport ever Scott, I won't be visiting the Hall of Fame anytime soon.