Yet they wonder

Sorry for the couples days off from posting, I guess nothing out there really peaked my interest.  With that being said, please read this article from Fox Sports where Alex Rodriguez "A-Rod" admits to using performance enhancing drugs from 2001-2003 which he claims he did because of the pressures of being the highest paid player in Baseball.  For the past couple of years there has been a discussion about why the popularity of baseball is in such rapid decline, despite attendance records being broke nearly every year.  Steroids might be one of the major factors in the decline.  There are no more heroes in the game of baseball, all we have now are Roided up jerks and Manny who turned down 25 million to play baseball THIS SEASON for the L.A. Dodgers.  

For those of you that read my earlier post blasting Governor Ted Strickland for freezing college tuition for the generation behind me, you'll know that I'm not a senior citizen that is always bantering about the good old days of Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Aaron.  I'm a 27 year old sportsaholic.  However, as I think back, I really can't recall any true "good guy" to excel in Baseball.  The star players when I was just getting into baseball; Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, wow, lucky me.

Maybe Major League Baseball should think about that when they are trying to come up with reasons for their decline in popularity.  Those of us born in the late 70's and early 80's who are just about 30, can not think of any true heroes we cheered for haven't later been linked to steroids.