The Post Steroid Era.. Or Not.

Well add Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon can be added to the list of cheats that now includes Melky Carbrera and Manny Ramirez as well as a few less familiar guys. Not to mention Ryan Braun's escape on a technicality and you have a situation in which Major League Baseball is far from past the steroid era.

So what is the solution?

Well for guys who did it before 2005 it was a morally wrong, but it did not violate MLB rules so I guess they should get a pass. Not that I like seeing Andy Pettite back, but to be fair what he did makes him a dick and a coward, but you don't lose your job for that For anyone who tested positive after? Ban them. Not 50 games, not 100 games, forever. Clearly the fine doesn't outweigh the benefits of cheating.

I get it in the case of some of these Cuban and Dominican players. Their salaries are funding schools where they came from and putting theit family and friends through University. I can sympathize. However the fact is that they are destroying the very game that they rely on to make the cash necessary to do all of that. Whether it's steroids in baseball, diving in soccer or every aspect of the Olympics when you allow cheating and don't/can't maintain a level of integrity the sport loses and the game can't grow.

Therefore, ban 'em.