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hugedude--no offense--I didn't mean to implicate all players. I wouldn't say codependent at all. I play an occasional Strato team. It's part of an overall balanced existence. SOMO amounts to about an hour or 2 a week but I see your point.

Although it has no impact, I no longer pay to see games live, whether on the tube or in person...refuse to buy memorabilia. Strato is the same type of indirect support certainly though.

You're right--but it still comes down to owners and MLB management exerting leadership and booting the losers, regardless of their star power. But they don't have the guts. Of course not all the players are losers. But how about we start with the ones we know and start putting money where the mouth is (and they DO know or can easily find out, but they really don't want to know). I still think MLB and the owners--in the same light as loser players who say they have no choice but to do the wrong thing--the owners believe it's not up to them to fall on their sword while every other team takes advantage of the situation. As I said--has to be a watershed straight from the top.

As you've expressed, the field is littered with players who did the right thing and then missed the cut for the long term.

They either need to let Bonds and others be and just let it go--or treat the problem equitably in MLB.

Minoso--somehow I think we agree more than disagree on the main point. I'm not for singling out a couple players. MLB needs to lay down the law and stick with it. But I still think it's not so black and white as to say running outside the baseline or making the bat stickier is the same as taking drugs. The fallacy there is one of extension.

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Baseball is responding to the subject or Steroids now in the present day for one reason and one reason only, Bonds. MLB had to have its thoughts of players during the so-called Steroid Era. However because of the lockout and Baseballs being at a all-time low they looked the other way. Dont be blinded by the light, during the McGwire Sosa chase there were "supplements", steroids, enhancement drugs. Whatever you want to call it it was going on and Baseball did not care. Now they do? As fans are we supposed to care? It is MLB that allowed this to happen. Allowed this product onto the field. The NFL was already testing for Steroids, not to say there isnt abuse in the NFL. However at least the NFL had established it as "wrong". Now with another one of baseball's purest records about to be pushed, MLB cares now. They should be ashamed.... and just turn their heads like they did when the last records were broken for the sake of a return to popularity. And quite simply let this ERA of baseball go down as the Steroid ERA..... Because its baseballs fault.