It used to be the hope of baseball fans that Alex Rodriguez would eventually pass Barry Bonds as the homerun king and thus rid of the asterisk on the biggest record in the sport. Now we learn that A-Rod also cheated. I think the problem is way more wide spread than MLB is ready to admit. If the greatest stars of the game such as Bonds, McGwire, Clemens and Rodriguez used steroids to improve their game, would you be surprised if the borderline players use them too? I mean if the superstars are doing it, I would think almost everyone who is trying to get into the Majors or trying to stay in it will do everything he can to improve his odds.
The problem is going to stay with baseball for a long time. One of the great thing about baseball is that it is so statistically oriented. You can compare players even from different generations, fairly or not. But now we may not be able to trust the records for years to come. Can anyone say with certainty that Albert Pujos is not tainted? Or how about young stars like Ryan Howard? For me personally, it is not the records that I care about. It is that steroid use by the pros have and will continue to have influence on high school and college players. They think that they should do what the pros do. Unfortunately very few of them become pros and they are causing great harm to their bodies. To me this the greatest shame of the steroid usage by the stars.
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