Today, the baseball "writers" will show off their
massive egos, leaving some of the best players to ever play the game out of the
Hall of Fame because they have seized the opportunity to play god, moralizing
to hear themselves talk with no regard for the damage they are doing to the
game. In baseball, you can't separate the past, present, or future. It is a
timeless game - if you disappear the players, pick and choose which chapters of
baseball are worthy of preservation, rail against the ripples in the integrity
of the game, you damage the game itself.
The only baseball writer worth a damn these days is Joe
Posnanski. Everyone else apes the ghosts of the past, when language was revered
and writers wrote about the game and not themselves. The political columnist
George Will writes better columns about baseball.
The problem is not with Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, or
baseball itself. The problem is with American society, where honor and
integrity no longer matter, where people will do anything to get ahead, to get “what’s
theirs,” no matter who they have to step on to get it. The moralizing over
drugs bullshit that is used as an excuse to keep these players out is hypocrisy
at its damnedest. Our society is sick;
don’t punish a few individuals and hurt the future of the game just because
they were born at the wrong time. They didn’t do anything that the general
populace wouldn’t do if put in their shoes.
