There Are No Children Here, or There Is No Such Person As A Baseball Purist

So.....Former Sen. Mitchell spends 20 months on a report that has less power than the paper it's written on. Bully for him.

As someone who has never liked baseball (football and basketball are my sports), I'm still trying to figure out what the big deal is.

There are no children playing professional sports friends. If any of those who Sen. Mitchell names in his report as having taken steroids did it, they were grown when they did steroids (which are not illegal; if it weren't for steroids half of my family would be dead because of asthma); they knew the risks and chose to take them.

But what upsets me more than the fact that valuable news time was taken up by this, is the feigned outrage of so-called baseball purists.

As many of you dear readers will remember, I live near St. Louis. Everybody in the St. Louis area knew that Mark McGuire was taking something (anybody else remember when the Andro was discovered in his locker????), yet the Cardinals were breaking all sorts of attendance records. Why? Because people wanted to see Mark McGuire hit those home runs. They didn't care that he might have been taking something. The same goes for Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds or Miguel Tejeda or Sammy Sosa. People like power baseball. They go to the ballpark to see those home runs being hit and those fast balls go by batters.

There are no children here. Let's stop acting like there were.