The real meaning of A-Roid-Fraud-Rod - "because that's where the money is"

Can there really be any surprise?

Since at LEAST the 80's and the savings and loans scandals it seems as if it's not what can be achieved, it what can be gotten away with.

But wait, what about the margin depravities which brought on the depression?

What about the Jay Gould's?

What about the 2nd Bank of the USA?

The South Seas Bubble?

Of course the reference to Willie Sutton merely points out that most cheating is inevitably the same.

For the money.

The MVP's are money.

The HR's are the money.

The 20-3 seasons are the money.

The bigger the money the more thieves will be attracted.

Rodriguez is a thief.
Tejada, thief
Giambi, Bonds, Kaminiti, Sosa, Clemens, Mcgwire, Palmiero, Canseco, and by the looks, Ivan Rodriguez, but who really knows if this is right or how many? And though it really hurts to admit it, even Andy Pettite, whose contrition seemed painfully sincere, but whose story that he only did it the way he did (twice?) was hard to credit.

All we can do is to expose these thieves and cheats whose weakness eliminates them from admiration of any sort, including for those talents they were gifted with, and move on.

So, I want to see the names of the 104 cheats and thieves.

TODAY.

And perhaps we had better have a modern Judge Landis, or baseball is liable to end up like hockey. Vaguely remembered as having been eliminated day by day from american thought by the behavior of its owners and players (in the NHL it was plain greed which resulted in the strike, and loss of an entire season, which killed hockey as a major sport)

While baseball is no longer played the way I did as a kid, in countless sunny spring and summer pickup games in parks and streets in the Bronx - who would pick up a bat at 8 or 9 then or now and imagine himself to be an injected, stat and truly bloated A Rod, Tejada, Giambi or Bonds, when they could place themselves in the mind and body of real heroes with real human weaknesses like Ruth , Gehrig, Yastremski, Williams, Kaline, Koufax, Drysdale, Yogi, and Marichal ..or the national history maker - Jackie Robinson, or the silent battles of a Hank Greenberg.

If our kids cannot have any but cheats and thieves as examples and we tolerate it, for our own pleasure of seeing the long arc over the Green Monster, or into the black at Yankee Stadium, what are we telling them?

Let's see the 104, and frankly, let's get rid of them. I have been a Yankee fan since I was 5 and watched them beat the Dodgers on TV - sneaking into a separate room during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with a great uncle to see the forbidden during the holy days, but now I can't stand these men who make tens of millions and CHEAT as well. They are MADOFF with arms and bats.

Maybe someone like a Jeter can retrieve something for the game with a ringing statement which values the sport and not the season.

You hear me Hank?

Where is our Kennesaw Mountain?