MLB Has No Credibility

Organizations such as MLB (owners and players) develop the mind set that they have control over public opinion and that the public will accept whatever they say and everything will be alright. They appear to believe by spouting their company policy that they can make everything OK. They cannot. On occasion you can force people to do what you want them to do but you can never force people to think the way you want them to think.That said, MLB's penalties show how disingenuous the MLB owners and players are. If and that is a big IF, they are serious about eliminating criminal behavior from their league and restoring some validity to their statistics, the penalties would be much stiffer. Instead of days the offenders would be penalized games. Instead of 4 chances there would be one. No matter what MLB claims the public knows they are posturing and if the media and congress were not on their back they would allow any behavior no matter how immoral, illegal, or unethical. As with all "stars" if the public knew them on a personal basis they wouldn't like them. MLB needs to understand the public believes MLB's owners and players are a joke and the statistics, considered by MLB as holy grail are meaningless. Their "best" players cannot compete without cheating. Why should anyone care what a league does where the management, owners, and the players admit to the world they don't have the ability to play the sport without cheating. This eliminates any credibility MLB may have had in the past. They need to get past "company policy" and clean up their league. To-date their efforts are too little too late.

The "positive" effects appreciated by steroid users remain long past the time steroids can appear in tests. Players who use steroids should be suspended for however long those "positive" effects are present.