But it was inevitable. Cause and effect. MLB is in trouble because under Selig, it tried to weasel word around the issue instead of just saying and doing the things that needed to be done.

If MLB had gotten in front of this in the first place, the discussion would have been about steroids as a health issue and not a pseudo scandal involving sanctimonious puffery about baseball statistics.

Its been a couple of years but this is what Barry said (thanks to MODI over at Sports On My Mind) at his press conference as he closed in on Aarons record when pressed about how he was handling all the attention from the media

“We just need to go out there and do our jobs, just as you professionals do your job. All you guys lied. All of y’all and the story or whatever have lied. Should you have asterisk behind your name? All of you lied. All of you have said something wrong. All of you have dirt. All of you. When your closet’s clean, then come clean somebody else’s. But clean yours first, okay.”

Yeah. Pretty much