The Baseball Problem

The problem is baseball laughed all the way to the bank during this era. The commissioner, the league, the teams, the players, the union, and the media all turned the other way and basked in the glory of the steroid. Now the writers have become sanctimonious assholes anointing themselves judge jury and executioners, essentially trying to erase any history of baseball from 1990-2005, of which they were equally culpable. What a bunch of hypocrites

Here is how Jason Stark sums it up perfectly:

The '90s happened. The first few years of the 21st century happened. I saw it with my very own eyeballs. So did you.  

It all happened, on the lush green fields of North America, as crowds roared and cash registers rung. It … all … happened. 

And how did it happen? The sport let it happen. That's how. 

Bud Selig let it happen. The union let it happen. The owners let it happen. The managers let it happen. The agents let it happen. The media let it happen. Front offices across the continent let it happen. And the players never stepped up to stop it from happening. 

It … all … happened. And no one in baseball has ever done anything, even after all these years, to make it un-happen, if you know what I mean. 

No records have been stripped. No championships have been stricken from anyone's permanent record. No numbers have been changed. No asterisks have been stamped in any record book. 

It … all … happened.