Letters to the Editor
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Kruk
John Kruk was on Jim Rome yesterday and he was basically saying that if everyone else is doing it and there are no consequences, why would anyone not take steroids? I only caught part of it, but he seemed to imply that he didn't take them because he was concerned for his health. Rome, the complete freaking moron that he is, of course didn't ask him about the morality of cheating or breaking the law in order to swindle millions of dollars without earning it. He did seem to imply that those who were concerned with the purity of the game were naive fools.
Maybe I am, but I know that a lot of people cheat on their taxes and I could probably get away with it as well, but I don't. I know I could shoplift tons of food from the supermarket or I could label the organic lettuce as regular lettuce and save money, but I don't. It's not a fear of being caught or a concern for who else is doing what. It's about the morality of stealing or lying. I could give every student I have a B+ without reading their papers and no one would complain (and I'd get great teacher evaluations), but I feel a moral obligation to actually do what I'm paid to do.
Apparently, no one in the big leagues feels a sense of morality about this. Why haven't the Frank Robinsons and Phil Rizuttos of the Hall taken public stances on this? Why not say; if steroid users are let in, I will not come.