What an awful era for Major League Baseball right now. It really doesn't surprise me anymore when any major league player is linked to steroids, or fails a drug test. Manny Ramirez is the latest star to fail a drug test, while many others have undoubtedly snuck through. Any more, I just assume that most of the top performers have taken them at some point...which is very sad! It makes me sick, because there are probably some great players that haven't taken them, and there are probably even more decent players that haven't taken them. Some of these "clean" guys could've been the best players of our generation, but many of them won't be remembered. Instead, we are left with memories of selfishness, cheating, and lying.
Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned, hard work? I like to see how far I can push myself, and what I can accomplish, by doing it the right way. I love to win, but I want to do it with with honor and dignity. Not by cheating. I hope that athletes start to take pride in doing things right, out-working their opponents, and not trying to take the easy way out.
