The bloody steroid era

A story that has been analyzed by every sportswriter in America at one point and probably the story that sports fans are sick of the most is the steroid issue. Analysts are still going back and forth with how the game should treat this issue and the tainted records that it brings with it, in regards to history. Is Barry Bonds the Homerun King? Is simply putting an asterisk next to their name enough? America is sick of this story, myself included, yet the importance of it is keeping it in the news. People like Hank Aaron are extremely upset that records are being broken by illegal substances but is it necessarily these players fault? These men are simply using everything that they can find to maximize their production. Would Aaron have used steroids or HGH if he were in the “steroid era”? These are questions that we will never have an answer to but the mere possibility is whats keeping the Bonds, the McGwires, and the Rodriguezs from being banned from baseball for a period of time. The steroid era is undoubtedly a black spot on baseballs history but during the era, the MLB got what it wanted. Homeruns were up, games were higher scoring, which was entertaining to the fans therefore making MLB money. Sosa vs. McGwire was good for baseball at the time. Looking back, was it a mistake? Of course but baseball learned its lesson and it shows it with such strict testing in today’s game. The game will recover and “the era” will cool down but it will be interesting to see how history treats the so-called cheaters.