A-Rod

Okay, by now this topic has probably been beaten to death by sports bloggers and others in the blogosphere who are much more qualified to attack it than I am; but that's not going to keep me from weighing in with my opinion, anyway.

To use the words of President Obama, it's disappointing. Regardless of whether you Alex Rodriguez or love to hate him, we love him or hate him for the same reason: he's such a freakin' monster on the baseball diamond. And we thought he did it naturally. He was the hope of legitimizing the Home Run record again. He was the one everyone pointed to as evidence that you didn't have to cheat to be great at Major League Baseball - the "Golden Boy," as my brother put it. Now, it's just disappointing.

Perhaps I'm most disappointed that all this happened while he was a member of the Texas Rangers....my team. I feel very betrayed - those three years while we marveled at his power, his defense, and rejoiced in an MVP coming from a last-place team. Looking back, everything has changed.

But the big question I have in all the steroids hoopla doesn't have to do with any player. My question is, why is no one holding the owners, GM's, and managers accountable for what is (hopefully, was) being done in their clubhouses. Granted, we cannot take blame away from the players - no one is shoving needles into their arms but themselves. But, it seems to me that some responsibility falls on the club execs to take the necessary measures to ensure that their clubhouse is clean. I know if I was an owner, GM, team president, manager, or even the clubhouse janitor, I would not want there to be any room for suspicion about what went on in my clubhouse on my watch.

Hopefully, Major League Baseball has taken the necessary steps to make sure that the steroid era is over. The worst part of all this is that we as baseball fans are going to scrutinize every single record that has been set over the past two decades, along with any that are set anytime in the near future.

Maybe ignorance really was bliss........