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Originally Posted by KevanGuy
I don't follow baseball at all but I watch things like this because decisions can affect all the other major leagues. Jiri, how do you see all this ending? Is it something serious enough to blowup the entire league? And by blowup I dont mean the end of MLB I mean mandatory drug testing and the loss of X amount of players?
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Good question...
The way I see it going down is a few more player suspensions and admissions post-retirement by some of the bigger names. And yes more drug testing but the problem is the cheaters will always stay ahead of the testing.
But MLB will just continue to sweep it under the carpet as much as they can and ignore the fact that the game has been damaged. But from a historical perspective this era will go down as a dark one for MLB and any records set in it will be not held in any regard. And that's the real shame of it - baseball is the ultimate numbers game and now a lot of that has been ruined.
The best thing MLB could do right now from an optics perspective is to can that buffoon Selig and bring in a new guy to supposedly "clean up baseball". Whether or not he does is somewhat irrelevant...the apperance of a hardline commish would do wonders for the sports' credibility.