It’s been over a week now, but the Alex Rodriguez public outing, still dominates the sporting news.  It seems every day there is a new twist to the story, giving new reason to blast it in the media outlets.  Never mind that the Knicks gave up 145 points in a game, or that the Grizzlies have now lost 6 games in a row.  The sports news flash continues to bring up A-Rod.  Now being a former athlete I take my sports just a serious as the next guy or gal.  But it is really starting to wear on me. 

The fact that A-Rod did the dirt and admitted to it after some big time prodding from certain media was rough to hear.  Mainly because,   I really thought that he was clean and doing things the right way.  I have blasted Barry Bonds for his failure to admit what everyone already knows, he took some kind of steroids.  The main reason I have been hard on him, besides the fact that he is a total jerk, is because he just won’t admit what he did.  I still refuse to place him ahead of the great Henry Aaron as the Home Run King.  But that’s another story for a different day. 

There are many that are speaking of Major League Baseball as if it should be banned from all pro sports.  But these same people are the ones that followed the home run chase of McGuire and Sosa, sitting on the edge of their chairs waiting to see who would reach 61 first.  Now those same people are acting as if they did not know that there was steroid’s in the game at that time.  McGuire openly used a supplement that enhanced his look, strength, and performance and everyone knew it.  Why did they turn a blind eye then, and are so full of judgment now?  They turned a blind eye then because they were being entertained.  For the period of time that the games were going on, they got so caught up in it, that they forgot all else, and were simply entertained.  That is what sports do for us.  That is why pro athletes are paid the millions of dollars that they are paid.  That is why we have cable and satellite television. It’s not for the movies that come on that were just at the movie theater two months before.  If we really wanted to see them, we would have caught them at the movies when they first came out.  We have to have Fox Sports, College Sports Station, Sports South and all 4 ESPN channels.   That the real reason.  We don’t mind watching UFC, or Extreme Cage Fighting, where we see the blood and violence that are reminiscent of the gladiator days of the old. So when it all boils down to it, we want our sports to entertain us at all cost.  So when a player hits 4 home runs in a game, and the score is 15 to 13, we talk about how exciting of a game it was like a child explaining the latest new toy that they want for Christmas!!  We don’t talk about the fact that all the players that hit home runs were juiced!  Why, Because we were entertained. 

Do we really want to judge and compare or life to the lives of the professional athletes that we root and cheer for?  Or do we just want to let them go out and perform and entertain us, and allow us to forget about the crappy day at work we had.

I am not saying that performance enhancing drug’s, or the use of them are right.  What I am saying is, let’s allow the governing bodies of these sports to do their job and manage the things that we cannot control, while we sit back and be entertained!!  Because at the end of the day, we are not going to stop watching and rooting for our favorite players, because we think they may be using something to perform the way they do.