Theres No Crying in Baseball!

As my boys would say "Want me to call it?"

"Call what?" I reply.

"The waaaaaaahmbulance!" they say, smirking because they think, for whatever reason, that I am whining about something and feeling sorry for myself.

So today I'm taking a page out of their book. Suck it up, Mark McGwire and quit your crying, you big baseball baby. You made the choice to consciously take steroids for 10 years, and now you wanna boo-hoo about it during interviews? If you're going to come clean about cheating, then man-up and come clean as to why you cheated and how it influenced your game.

To say that you only took steroids to help you get healthy from injuries and that it didn't help you get stronger, bigger, and hit harder or influence your game in any way is like saying the parts they put in the bionic man were only to help him walk again and they really had no effect on his ability to jump higher, run faster, and create the spinoff "The Bionic Woman." Preposterous!

July like Olympic athletes Ben Johnson and Marion Jones, who were stripped of medals and records after it was discovered they took performance-enhancing drugs, you should be stripped of your achievements as well. To allow you to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame would be like allowing Tiger Woods into the husband-of-the-year hall of fame. You cheated. Don't you know, cheaters never prosper? Well, they do for a while, like Bernie Madoff, but in the end they get what they deserve.

It's really disheartening to see how many athletes are giving up their integrity for a deal with the devil. Drugs, gambling, extra-marital affairs. I realize they are not perfect, but don't you think for the amount of credit they are given, money they earn, and kids they influence that they should at least try a little harder? Perhaps that is the problem. They are given too much money, too much credit, and too much influence. Somehow, we forget that they are human, just like us. But worst of all, THEY forget that they are human, just like us.