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When it comes to steroids in baseball, how much blame do you place on people other than the players?
The player is ultimately responsible for what goes into their body. But I don’t think anyone can deny that the whole environment made it much more difficult for a player to say no.
Personally, I would actually lay more blame on the owners, managers, and the league for turning a blind eye on the issue until they couldn’t ignore it any more. I don’t believe for a second that the people around Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, and others didn’t know what was going on. But they liked the butts in the seats so they didn’t do anything.
A little further down the list, I would blame the emphasis on individual stats rather than team results.
I would even blame fans to an extent for the way they embraced the big home run numbers.
Well, you’re right that it’s ultimately on the individual players who did it, but at the same time I get it. At least once it was established within the culture, I can understand the train of thought about where the guy teetering between the minors and the bench taking their shot, particularly when everyone else is doing it too. If he wasn’t such a bad dude I even get Bonds feeling like he was the best in a clean game, but being mad about being surpassed by Mac and Sosa, thus using because they had an unfair advantage, using it to take back what was his. I’m not saying I approve, of course, but I get it. You can also apply that logic to a player at any sort of rank in the heirarchy who decided to use. I don’t approve, but I certainly get it.
I think that the players association dropped the ball and hurt the game greatly by not seeing the big picture and protecting those who were using at the expense of both the players who were doing it the right way, and the future credibility of the game because it’s not like this scandal would never catch up to the game.
Of course, everyone from the writers to the commissioner’s office to the owners to the players, even the clean ones who kept their mouths shut deserve some blame (even though I feel they did the right thing, they still are a little culpable for not saying anything). Basically, I think what’s done is done and I’m tired of yesterday’s news. I think the Mitchell Report was a huge mistake because it gave us both a skewed look into the situation (because the big witnesses were trainers from New York, thus it exposed some but not nearly all the people who used but was presented as being a bigger picture than it was), and because it detailed things that happened a few years ago. Everyone dropped the ball here, lets just move forward. I don’t care about tests from the early 00s or late 90s. Just tests from now. Let the past be the past and lets get it right going forward with everyone cooperating.
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I will say that I don’t blame the fans at all. They have absolutely no responsibility over the inner workings of the game. The fans only responsibility is to be entertained by the game. The sport should be out to protect the fans by protecting the game and avoiding the nonsense that we’ve had to endure over the last few years with scandal and a host of headlines that have nothing to do with the game itself. The fans are the ultimate victims in all of this. The media is supposed to be the arm of the fans in instances like this, and if they weren’t going to question what was happening, then why should the fans be responsible for questioning it?
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