Robots don't say "ye"

Okay, now I know that the one of the main points of this blog is to critique the utter ridiculous nature of some events in sports, but some of the latest media rhetoric regarding the hall of fame really takes the cake. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm cake.
The article found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546908/ is written by a writer from MSNBC named Mike Celizic, or as I’ve dubbed him “Lieutenant Douche”. One of the hall of fame voters, Paul Ladewski, turned in a blank ballot for the HOF because he says every player who played from 1993-2005 is a steroid baby and shouldn’t be voted in. Celizic endorses that position and writes a whole article how the baseball hall of fame should be closed until we figure out how to get the right players in. I am dumbfounded as to not only how this guy graduated college, but also as to how he got a job with MSNBC. If you look at his picture on the article, he wears one of those middle-aged man I’m trying to cover my baldspot and show the 28 year old chicks how cool I am hats, and then it all made sense. He’s one of those guys who believes that the game is tainted by steroids and the “sanctity” of the game isn’t what it was when he was a doobie smoking hippie who put down his bong and went to a baseball game because the nachos were “groovy” and the game was “pure”. And since he remembers all those good times in his constant state of euphoria, and the game is no longer like that, he wants to declare that everyone playing now is tainted and to preserve the sanctity of the game, we should close the hall. What a dumbass. First of all, baseball was not “pure and clean” 30 years ago, in fact, I can’t recall a single era in baseball history when there wasn’t scandal and cheating and utter ridiculousness in the game. 1919: Black Sox scandal, 1930s: the red sox owner incurred too many debts so he did a firesale of the whole team, 1940s-50s: rapant racism going on throughout the entire league which eventually spilled over into the 60s and the Curt Flood scandals, 1990: Pete Rose.
What I’m trying to make Lieutenant Douche realize is that baseball is not pure, neither is the NFL or the NBA or golf, or horse racing, or competitive eating. There will always be a scandal, there will always be cheaters, and it is up to the Commissioners to regulate that behavior and weed it out so a cheating player can never rack up the numbers to deserve to be considered for the HOF.
What I really take issue with is that Lieutenant Douche says (and what Ladewski says) that he wouldn’t vote for Big Mac even though he never tested positive but he believes he did. Furthermore, he wouldn’t vote for Ripken or Gwynn even though they never tested positive and he doesn’t believe they used, but he can’t be sure. So, essentially his problem is that there wasn’t enough (if any) testing to ensure who was using and who wasn’t and because of this he has decided to impugn an entire generation of ball players. To make such a blanket statement denouncing an entire generation of baseball players is the equivalent of me saying, “I’m never gonna vote a single New York Yankee into the hall of fame, because everyone who plays for Steinbrenner is possessed by Satan.” Or, “I’m not voting for any player played between 1981 and 1989 because all players who played during the Reagen administration are as guilty of providing arms to the Iran Contras as Ollie North.” Yeah, doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Peace out Lieutenant Douche,
Laz