The Love of Baseball



Joe Lizura



Joe Lizura. San Diego, 5/29/2012.  Here is an interesting article about Barry Bonds wanting to move forward after the years of testimony and trials regarding any association he had with steroids while in baseball. His hearings and trials have been going on for so long, that I really felt he deserves to move ahead with his life.  In fact, I feel like all these guys have been through enough including the latest casualty, Roger Clemens who has spent untold weeks and months in the middle of hearings and testimony.  I was never a Giants fan, but his story made me want to support him - check it out, here is the link: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-barry-bonds-giants-20120529,0,7072284.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29  And now here are my thoughts about the whole "steroids and baseball" controversy now fully a decade old - baseball in America is an interesting thing because it is more than a sport, (basketball is a sport) baseball is both a sport and past-time.  Baseball has outlasted fortune 500 companies, times of prosperity and times of war.  Baseball has been a sport that teaches children to work as a team, to invest hard work and to both win and lose.  Right now however, we as a nation are losing.  Picking on the game of baseball by lawyers, politicians and advocates is ruining the game, ruining the respect and reputation of players and wasting untold millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. 



Barry Bonds

 Baseball isn't perfect, and neither are the politicians on the panels investing the game, I personally am tired of having my tax dollars wasted trying to trick ballplayers into "obstruction of justice" charges by having them deny use of steroids and then have someone else testify that they used them - this has gone on and on for years and it's pointless.

So here is what I think would be an excelled move:  The president should pick a day, say July 1, 2012 and pardon all ballplayers prior to that date for any association with steroids or steroid use.  The very next day a very powerful law should go into effect that makes it illegal to use any steroid in baseball - simple as that, if you are caught using steroids, you are suspended for the rest of the current season and if you are caught a second time, you are banned from the sport.

Let's stop bashing the game and the players, and let's stop wasting our money.  Just my thoughts.

Joe Lizura