Tainted?

It is official--two more beloved baseball heroes have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Today the New York Times reported that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in an anonymous test in 2003. In case you have a short memory, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and 2007. It's only right to assume that both players were "using" during their 2004 runs, and most likely were "using" in 2007 as well. That would explain why Manny was recently caught using a female fertility drug that men can use to generate testosterone after they have stopped using steroids.

This could also be an explanation of why David Ortiz hasn't exactly lived up to expectations this year or last year. I assume he realized that he should stop taking performance enhancers before he got caught, and now he is suffering.

The Ramirez and Ortiz news was anything but shocking. At this point, I'm not surprised by any of the baseball names that are released. It is somewhat depressing. I'm not the biggest baseball fan, but it stinks that the only era of baseball I've payed attention to is marked as "the steroid era." I just want all the name-releasing to end. Either give up all the names at once, or stop releasing names. It is not fair to the fans and it is not fair to baseball. None of us can move on if names are released every few months...Sheesh