Let me just say that my reaction to all this A-Rod shit is “duh!”. The reason being that Jose Canseco hasn’t lied yet and the dumb masses keep ignoring him until something comes out that tells them, “hey, maybe Canseco isn’t full of shit”. I liken it to the idiots on ID4 that appear “shocked” that Area 51 was real even after aliens have already begun invading Earth. Seriously, WTF? Some giant alien spaceships appear all over Earth and then someone says that Area 51 is real and you are shocked? Really? Doesn’t make any sense.

At this point, if Canseco claimed to stick steroid needles into the ass of Jesus I would believe him. He was right about A-Rod and he’s right about more than 2/3rds of the league using it during the early 90s. At this point, it’s non-issue to me. There’s really no way of telling who “cheated” and who didn’t so you just gotta assume that everyone did. It was “legal” in the baseball world, and, according to Canseco, more people were on it than weren’t. A-Rod used, but so did whoever is your favorite player. And, as Kevin Brown proves, it doesn’t matter if the player has muscles or not. Skinny twig bitches used steroids, too.

You can rationalize that someone like Greg Maddux didn’t use because he’s not a power pitcher and isn’t muscular but that’d be naive on your part. Steroids or HGH could be the reason he’s been able to pitch this long at such a high level. Using doesn’t necessarily mean big muscles and more power, it could just mean quicker recovery time. Or even extending your career a few years longer than it would normally end. People like to say that it’s clear that Griffey Jr was clearly natural and now should be called the “best ever” because of guys like A-Rod and Bonds being “caught” but how do we know he’s clean? He’s had a TON of tendon injuries and steroid abuse is linked to tendon damage…so how can we conclude that he’s been 100% clean? There’s just no way of knowing who cheated and who didn’t. Sure, positive tests might make it easier to place blame on some of the guilty but it in no way proves innocent for everyone else.

I just think we need to move on and deal with it. Instead of banning people from the Hall of Fame, just institute different standards. 600 is the new 500. Compare players based on their own era instead of against others. Sosa hitting 600 HRs in his era is probably comporable to someone hitting 400-500 HRs in the 70s and 80s. Don’t keep him, McGwire, Bonds or A-Rod out of the Hall of Fame just because they “used” or allegedly “used”, but just put their stats in perspective against their contemporaries. It’s quite simple and is common sense as far as I’m concerned, but the sad truth is that common sense is very uncommon and most people just don’t have it.