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I Guess Canseco Was Right

Peter Schiller | Feb 12, 2009 | Comments 3

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I usually try to stay clear of the controversial issues in baseball, but I couldn’t resist this topic. To start things off, here are some quotes from the baseball world by some past and present players.

In the MLB.com article, “A-Rod is talk of MLB after admission “, George Brett was quoted as saying, “I was crushed by the news,” Brett said on a Kansas City radio program Tuesday. “The one thing I am impressed with is he came right out and admitted it. But I don’t think that that’s going to — I mean, God, the poor guy, his career’s ruined. And for what? Just trying to compete with everybody else.”

While I can’t say that I was crushed like George Brett was, but I was surprised that only 1 in 104 names got leaked. Something is seriously wrong with that! I’m not sure his career is ruined like Brett said there, but his chances of getting into the Hall of Fame just got a whole lot more difficult to determine. He should have been a first time ballot lock, but this turn of events may have just changed all of that.

Another player had this to say from the same article, “On one hand, you don’t want to see anybody’s reputation drug through the mud,” …Lance Berkman said on Tuesday. “But the competitor in me wants to see, who are these guys that took steroids? Say what you will, but who can you trust?” Berkman continued. “If you’re a fan, why would you believe anybody? I certainly can see where fans are coming from, and I would respect them for their opinions.”

For his sake, I hope Berman isn’t one of the other 103 players on that list or else these comments look pretty ridiculous.

Also from that piece, Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt, was even more pointed with his comments. “A-Rod’s numbers shouldn’t count for anything,” Oswalt said in a phone interview with MLB.com. “I feel like he cheated me out of the game.”

Unfortunately Roy, that will probably never happen, but he may get an asterisk or two next to those stats and accomplishments.

Finally, Curt Schilling, on his blog 38 Pitches , had this to say about the situation, “I’d be all for the 104 positives being named, and the game moving on if that is at all possible. In my opinion, if you don’t do that, then the other 600-700 players are going to be guilty by association, forever.”

I’m with Curt on this one, but I’m not sure it will happen due to the fallout it might cause between the government, MLB and the

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MLBPA. I think that after the Mitchell Report, all of these names should have come out. It’s not fair that A-Rod has been singled out like this, but he put himself in this predicament in the first place by choosing to take an illegal substance whether MLB had banned it or not.

Like the title states, I guess Jose Canseco was right after all. He said in his second book about steroids in baseball that he foretold about A-Rod using steroids. I think he even claimed to give A-Rod a contact for them. Until we see more names get leaked, we here at Baseball reflections will continue to consentrate on the other aspects of the game in hope that this one resolves itself sooner rather than later.