COLUMN: MLB scandal raises questions

By: Chad Rhoad | SCNOW
Published: August 06, 2009

Major League Baseball was rocked again last week as two more names from the list of more than 100 athletes who failed drug tests in 2003 leaked, again.
This time the names were David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.
But there’s a bigger question. These results are sealed by federal court order. So who keeps leaking them? And why?
Hasn’t this played out enough?
Another problem is with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig. Where is he? Is he pulling some kind of Mark Sanford disappearing act during this bleak time in baseball?
Someone from baseball has to step up here and say something, anything.
Either release all of the names from the list or bury the list forever.
But this process of leaking a big name every month or two is old and tiresome. It doesn’t even carry heavy weight in the news anymore.
Most fans say they are exhausted with the performance enhancing drug stuff.
But Selig, and the rest of baseball’s big named executives, have sat by quietly and not said anything about the trouble.
Each time a name is released, Selig sits quietly and lets baseball get a little more egg on its face. He doesn’t defend anyone. He doesn’t chastise anyone. He doesn’t seem to do anything.
The execs just bury their collective heads in the sand and hope the big bad news goes away.
Or maybe they don’t care if their teams are still making money.
And that’s what this is really about isn’t it? Money.
A recent poll showed that fans want to put this mess behind them and watch baseball. Manny is wildly famous in L.A. despite the fact that he failed this test and failed one at the beginning of the year.
Fans forgive winners. That’s just the way it is.
It’s a fine line to walk, too. Everyone deserves a second chance, but someone has to pay a penalty before the second chance is given, right? Maybe?
We, as fans, have to be careful of setting a dangerous precedent.
We can’t let people believe that we let winners do anything they want.
I may never run out of questions, but I don’t have any of the answers.
This situation is a mess, and someone needs to start the cleanup. You don’t cry over spilled milk, but you can’t leave it sitting on the floor until it spoils. It starts to smell really bad.

COLUMN: MLB scandal raises questions

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