HShuler, it would be a start. I am just at the point now, with a D1 baseball player in my household, that I have reached the end of my rope with the cheating. My son plays clean, trains clean and works hard to do things the right way. If by doing that we are now less likely to move on in baseball, so be it. But what kind of message is baseball, both MLB commissioner’s office and players who cheat, sending the next generations of baseball players if there is no accountability for cheaters in the game? Are we simply going to rely on baseball writers not putting these guys into Cooperstown as their only punishment?
We aren’t being strong enough on PED use. Get caught once, lifetime ban. Period. Sounds draconian but that will stop it. Violate league rules in order to gain a competitive advantage? One year suspension for the entire organization. That will fix that behavior. Create a new way to cheat that gets caught? Commissioner decides punishment and it gets written into league rules from that point forward.
I’m waiting for these type of scandals to work their way into college baseball...because the college game, with its big salaries for top team coaches and the TV revenue will undoubtedly end up corrupting the college game too. This needs to stop!