Major League Baseball? Major League Bassball Players Association? Or both?
2007-12-12 19:21:09 · 14 answers · asked by Scooter_loves_his_dad 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
chix and owners dig the long ball. after the players strike, mccguire and sosa put butts in seats. dilluted pitching, small ball parks, a juiced up baseball, and roids all played a part in the obscene numbers guys started to put up. BUT roids/ped's were a part of it, and lots of people knew it. more players started to get involved with the stuff and things got way out of control.....
everyone in baseball is equally responsible for this mess! at the very least, owners, management, and the commish, turned a blind-eye and were not proactive. as of today we will begin to find out how much damage has been done to the great game. it could be fatal.....i hope not.
2007-12-13 01:11:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both and beyond.
The pressure put on these players since they were too young to understand it by their coaches, parents, siblings, friends, and fans.
When you're expected to perform at a certain level and have been taught to be "great", you might take roids too.
Professional athletes are something to admire, they can make things look easy that the average person would find very difficult but they aren't perfect and people need to stop acting like they are perfect. They make too much money but that isn't really their fault cos we'd all take the money if we were offered.
I'm not saying I like the fact this list is coming out and that these players have used illegal drugs, but I do tend to be sympathetic towards the players who may feel like they've been held in a cage and that their ONLY purpose is to perform in baseball, a game.
So I think the fans deserve some of the blame. The idiots who stand up screaming at their players to perform better as if they could do better. Plus attendance has gone UP since these steroid rumors, the money put into the game says "no one really cares".
It's a great game, the perfect game, played by people who are hardly perfect.
As much as I love the St. Louis Cardinals, maybe the best place to watch the most pure form of baseball is on the little league field.
2007-12-13 07:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by Js_5 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I blame both. The players association didn't want the guys testing positive to be suspended and Major League baseball was benefiting from the added revenue due to increased attendance and merchandise sales that the home runs were creating.
2007-12-13 07:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Andy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I blame the man in charge. I remember hearing back in the early-mid 90's that steroids were going around the majors. If us the fans suspected that it was going on, how could that not get to the commissioner's attention? It got to his attention and he decided to do nothing about it.
Had it not been for Jose Canseco, none of this would have developed. I don't blame the players at all. Anytime you let people get away with what they want, there is nothing stopping them. Once Law and Order is established, they will think twice about doing it. If they do it, there will be consequences.
2007-12-13 04:22:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bowie Kuhn and the American public. When Ball Four was released in 1970, Hall of Fame Commissioner (ha) ignored the allegations of rampant drug use in baseball (amphetamines), in doing so he created an atmosphere that anything goes as long as you're in the show, Salary excesses and fan apathy towards drug use fanned those flames. Look how little uproar over McGwire using andro. Yes it was not banned by baseball, but was in every other pro sport. With the money teams are handing out, every ballplayer is going to use whatever he can to get ot the show.
2007-12-13 05:00:21 · answer #5 · answered by tequila lucky 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I blame the fans. They expect record breaking performance. This cannot be accomplished without chemical assistence.
Another reason is the amount of money involved in the sport. Would you not use steroids when million of dollars are at stake?
2007-12-13 05:19:51 · answer #6 · answered by musclehedz 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bud Selig, the owner's patsy. His first job as commish is to protect the integrity of the game at all costs.
He knew and did nothing.
2007-12-13 09:22:19 · answer #7 · answered by the_meadowlander 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bud selig he let it happen its his problem. He's tarnished the game so he s the sole person to blame. he writes the policies of the MLB and choose to do nothing.
2007-12-13 06:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by dark knight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
both, everybody. they all knew what was going on so no one should be surprised when the mitchell report comes out and names over 50 people he found out about. i guarantee you that there was at least 3 times that he didn't find out about.
2007-12-13 03:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by i am him 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steroid makers.
2007-12-13 06:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by Mosh 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋