MLB versus Little League

I was watching the Little League World Series and I saw a ball hit to the warning track where it was caught for the 3rd out. If the little boy was using steroids the ball would have gone into the stands for a home run. Instead of an out they would have had a run with the possibility for additional runs. In other words it would have had a far ranging affect on the game.

It occurred to me that in MLB as long as there is a hint of steroids every game is artificial and meaningless. It is no longer a baseball game; it is no longer a sport; it is a contest of which team can cheat the most and get away with it. Players using steroids have destroyed the game of baseball at the professional level and anyone watching is watching a fraud. Records are a fraud and cannot be relied upon as truth. The what-if will rule and your opinion is as good as mine but neither of us knows the real truth of what would have happened if the game had been played fairly.

What-if the pitcher had thrown the ball at 88 mph instead of 98 mph? What-if the outfielder threw to the cutoff player instead of all the way to the catcher and the result was an out instead of a run? What if the throw from the catcher had arrived at second base too late to get an out instead of having a possible run on second? What-if the ball had not gone that extra 25 feet into the stands or just over the head of the outfielder and was caught for an out instead of allowing a run or runs? What if the player who came in second in the number of homeruns hit that season had come in first and received an extension on his contract that kept him on the team instead of going to another team which could have caused other players to move to other teams as well? Steroids affect statistics which affect awards and contracts which affect team makeups which affects managers. See how what-ifs rule? Who knows? Your "opinion" is as good as mine but neither of us "know". If you can't believe what you see on the field what you see is meaningless and the game is a figment of your imagination.

Players knowing of or suspecting steroid use and not reporting it to the owners and leaders of the players union are as guilty of destroying the game as the users. Their records are meaningless also because of the what-ifs.