All of us not just players are culpible for the steroid mess in Major League Baseball.
By: Hank Kalet
From Ray Ratto on ESPN.com, offering perhaps the most sanguine of responses to the steroid controversy raging around Major League Baseball:
"(W)hile it is certainly fair game to decry Bonds’ feeble explanation for allowing his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, free run of the machinery, and to ask for (but never get) asterisks for all these tainted records, what is not fair is for baseball to act like the despoiled virgin here, for Commissioner Bud to look all stricken and outraged as though someone had emptied a dump truck full of manure into his pool.
"That’s not just not fair, it’s a bright and gleaming hypocrisy of the first magnitude."
Because that’s what we’re hearing here from owners and fans and even members of Congress. Even when it seems pretty clear that we were all in on this charade.
"Fact is," Ratto says "we’re all culpable, because we knew what was behind the curtain or had a real good guess. And no feigning innocence out there, either. There’s more than one BALCO, remember. It’s just the BALCO we know about is the only one we’ve found.
"So everyone has to give back the money — even the media, which helped the show by playing the lovely magician’s assistant, Rita.
Either that, or we can call it a wash and move on, acknowledging that we were all in on it and failed by going along with the gag because, well, it was just so damned fun to watch."

