Muxhut is one of two Commenters Of the Week, and the only one to deliver a post so far (Clarence? Clarence?). He writes with an edge that does not show up on the track. Muxhut?

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Did you realize that today is Minnesota’s Birthday? And that our state is now 151 years old? Of course you did, you have Wikipedia bookmarked, and it … wait, what? Wikipedia doesn’t even front-page our State’s Bacardi Birthday? What the [redacted], Wikipedia?!

So, Minnesota, what would you like for your birthday? Vitreolic inanity? Oh, I think I can help you there …

Steroids in baseball! Steroids! In Baseball! The ball is literally made of steroids (the logo is printed with natural male enhancers and the stitches, of course, are licorice.) So how do we fix it? How do we spell baseball without c-h-e-a-t-i-n-g? Well, I can tell you this much, you can’t leave it up to the players. Yes, they are cheating, but realize that so are 138% of the other players (percentage enhanced with new dietary ‘supplement’) and everyone feels obligated to juice or go home. And you can’t leave it to the players agents. The owners couldn’t care less if their players cheat so long as you come to watch them cheat (and buy $6 beers), the Fourth Estate loves any opportunity to press ink and is probably handing out pills with every granted interview (no offense, Rand?), and we’ve seen what happens when you let Congress (Really? Our Federal Legislature? The political body responsible for declaring war? They have nothing better to do?) try to affect the situation. (Really? They Failed?!)

So, who do you turn to? I’ll tell you who – there’s only one party in this whole involved mess that still has any credibility, only one party that could possibly effect the situation. And who might that be?
Money.

Money is the only thing that anyone in that equation is going to listen to. So what do you think? What are the odds that the money in your pocket could help get rid of steroids in baseball? Could we agree to some sort of plan that would involve the MLB cleaning up its act, and proving it, or we all follow SuperRookie over to the soccer pitch? What would it take for you to believe that MLB was clean again – weekly tests for all players in all leagues with results posted online? Or maybe just a tear-jerking apology from the next A-Rod / Manny / Bonds? If we, as fans, could agree to a plan, would you be willing to sacrifice a season of watching bulked-up half-men fake jubilation every time they check-swing one out of the stadium in order to make MLB adhere to that plan?

Because nothing we say or hope for is going to change things. Too many people have invested too much to care about any insults or pity-eyes we might throw their way. The only chance we have of cleaning this mess up is to hurt the bottom line. Take a little from a Steinbrenner, take a bit from Boras, knock a couple of zero’s off of their salaries and then we’ll see if something doesn’t change.

And then we can turn our attention to the NFL, NBA, PGA, ATP …

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