Fans Dont Care

Apparently fans don't really care about steroids enough to condone it.
Take for example the charade that was out only a few weeks ago with
Manny Ramirez. He tested positive for peds and served a fifty game
suspension. In the coming weeks he had to play a rehab start in the
minor leagues and the isotopes attendance was doubled. That's right
doubled just because of one player. During his suspension Manny was on the all star ballot in second or third place and would have been able to play when he came back if he would have been in the top three in voting for that position. Than after the rehab game Manny came back to the Majors and started in the game against the Padres and
he was not booed he was cheered like he was a hero or something.

In addition to the cheering there were also a lot of L.A Dodger fans that came down from L.A. just to watch Manny return to the Major’s. The non-chalant dodger fans drove the 2 + hours it would take to get to San Diego just to watch a “dude” with dreads hit a ball. How can you be a hero and an idol if you take an illegal substance? Fans
don't care as long as you are great at what you do and you are
entertaining.

If you are out of baseball and you come out and admit it
than you can kiss your chances of going to the hall of fame good bye if
you were that talented. Fans want entertainment and if that means
padded stats than padded stats it will be. Remember the summer of Sosa
and McGwire that was top-notch entertainment. We all had to know that
baseball players just don't look like that and that they can't
physically do that. Well we looked the other way for so long that I
wonder what it will take to regain our trust and the image of the
league.