The A-Rod Effect

Nothing more than something to think about...

So far, baseball has gotten repeatedly hammered by players getting popped for steroids. Alex Rodriguez became the highest profile active player to be swept up in the witch hunt that has already claimed Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and countless others.

To date, only Sean Hill and Bryan Berard, the latter of which wasn't busted under the NHL's drug policy, have been proven as users--and most fans don't care much, because both have been bottom-3 defensemen and far from a true asset to their teams.

That shouldn't fool us into thinking that others aren't out there.

Sure, hockey has the well-deserved reputation of being a clean game, especially when put side by side with football and baseball. But to think just two guys out of the thousands who have dressed in the last two decades are dirty, that's just naive and fans need to be cognizant of that for when the next player--and there will be a next player--gets popped. In any and all sports, this should no longer be a shock to the system.