Even as some would say baseball will not recover from Alex Rodriguez's positive steroid test from a few years back, I still say baseball is great. And must I remind everyone A-Rod is not the first league star to test positive (remember Barry Bonds or that one guy named Mark McGwire?) Some of my earliest memories involve baseball, specifically my beloved St. Louis Cardinals. My grandfather was a die hard Cardinals fan and when the game came on TV, nothing else mattered. Well maybe the ice cream breaks during commercials but that's about it. He hated the TV announcers, calling Mike Shannon "Mush Mouth." So most of the time the TV was muted and Jack Buck blasted out of the radio beside him. One year for Father's Day, my sister and I gave him an umpire doll with Velco arms, legs and head as a means of venting his frustration at officials.
My mom sat four rows from the very top of old Busch Stadium (pause for moment of silence) when she was eight months pregnant with me. At a game at the tender age of three, I stood up on my dad's lap and yelled, "Kill the umpire!" This in turn prompted Dad to say I had been watching too many games with Grandpa. Now my family keeps the Cardinal fan tradition alive with an annual game in a party suite at new Busch.
The point I am trying to make is most baseball fans have been following the game for so long to be completely turned off by something like A-Rod's admission. There is so much more to the game, too much history, to say baseball is in serious trouble. If I would guess, baseball could be in more trouble with the economic situation than this drug test issue...only time will tell.
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