Will Baseball Ever be The Same?

It is like a never ending nightmare, people go to bed hoping to have this dark cloud gone, yet like a stupid movie that just never seems to end; Steroid era wont end. Finally some baseball players have risen above this and have started to call out some of baseball elite. Maybe the only way to get through this is if the players just say "enough is enough" and cast out the outcast for good.

We all saw the uproar that sprung up after Ryan Braun was suspended; and now we have this hilarious soap opera going on with Alex Rodriquez. I finally think baseball as come to the breaking point where if they do not do something drastic then the sport will forever be ruined.

Every fan is sick of it, and baseball needs to write the wrong, and the first thing to do is ban A-Rod for life; I understand that is severe and might be an overreaction by baseball, but baseball needs a wiping boy, and who better then the guy who confessed to using steroids, and then continued to use them. The next step is to rewrite the punishment for offenders of the drug policy. First time offenders, get suspended for an entire year, second time offenders get banned for life.

Right now the reward out weights the risk, and baseball needs to reverse it now! Look; Melky Cabrera banned 50 games last season for PEDS, and still some how signs a two year, $16 million dollar contract. If baseball wants to "clean" up its sport it needs to remove these 'dirty" players right now, or another thing is to have teams not sign PED players; if baseball wanted to somewhat clean its sport up it should have stopped the Toronto Blue Jays from signing Melky, but if they go down this path then grievances would be filed against baseball for not allowing ex-PED users another chance in the majors.

Baseball has already lost its record books (do not get me going on that), it lost its fans in the 1994 strike, and right now the fans who came back after the strike might start leaving this once called "Americas past time" because no one can tell if the players are clean or not.

Going back to the title of this story, "will baseball ever be the same?" the answer is no. Baseball doesn't know who is their true home run kings (Only us fans know the true answer is Hank Aaron and Roger Maris) and baseball does not want to rewrite its history books; Cooperstown is not allowing any "dirty" player from the late 90's early 2000's into the Hall of Fame. Baseball is forever tarnished, because even the young players who were supposed to help usher this sport into a new chapter that was presumed to be better then the steroid era, but instead by the hands of 2011 MVP Braun, the game has gone back to the same stage it was in, in the early 2000's, where players were still juicing even after baseball said it has cleaned up the game.

So will this ever be behind us? Maybe, only if Bud Selig throws down the gauntlet on A-Rod today, because if A-Rod is banned for life, the tables have turned for the "juicers" but if A-rod is only suspended for a season, then baseball blew its chance to have the risk out weight the reward.