Are my thoughts true or false?

Question

So the deadline is coming to a close for baseball. With many teams dumping high priced players that signed multiyear contracts and are not performing.

If you look at these players the years before their so called break out year and after do you see a pattern. Lets look at adrian beltre, tons of homers one year only and do you honestly think he was not juicing. Do you think that the owners of baseball have just taken it on the chin for these players? Reason being is if they really go after a player for signing a contract under false pretenses wouldn't they be opening up pandora's box.

I truly believe that baseball as a whole has known about this for a long time. Just had the hey, we are winning attitude and it makes us money. Now that the game has been "forced" to clean it up, not because they want too.

I just find it ironic that the same thing that was making them money is now loosing them money.

Bo Sox fan here, it is about time you go rid of that moron.

Answer 1

During the nineties the owners and baseball itself knew completely what was happening. It was a sad vicious circle - players take steroids, players hit more home runs, more fans come to the park, the owners make more money, the players who hit home runs demand more pay. Clean players hit less home runs, get less pay...so they start to juice too (err....Brady Anderson?)..and the cycle continues. Baseball governors, the owners and the players - in particular the union - are all complicit. However, in the long run only the players pay a personal price with their reputations destroyed.

Bud Selig should suspend himself for a year. If he didn't know that steroid abuse was happening he is incompetent. If he did know it was happening but did nothing to stop it, he is complicit. Either way, Bud - give yourself some time off. Don Fehr deserves the same. He did everything in his power to prevent a decent drug testing regime from being implemented.

The ridiculous thing is that everyone blames baseball for steroids - how come the NFL isn't held to the same standard? Bill Romanowski and Lyle Alzado were just the tip of the iceberg there as well.

Answer 2

your thoughts are true if you think they are. Many will disagree with you; many won't. Glad to hear you think dumping manny was a good move. I think the bosox are now toast, though they might make the playoffs, they've sealed their fate in their WS aspirations.

Answer 3

I'll agree with you, there are ALOT of juiced players, back in Hank Aarons era, before then, and all the way up to now. So 10's and thousands of players have been taking steroids in my estimation, but we will never find out. But to say someone has a good year, then a bad year isn't really great evidence of someone juicing.