A-Rod admits to steroid use.............

Let's get it straight folks, A-Rod took steroids, several years ago, before substances were "banned". Before you call into ESPN to bash the A-Rod's, Giambi's, Petit's and others who admitted to using steroids. let's look at a different angle. Could they possibly have become products of their environment's? I think so, take A-Rod for example, if I go out tomorrow and take steroids I still won't be able to hit a Papelbon fastball or a Halladay change-up, let alone hit it 400 feet consistently, for years. I played baseball for 20 years and never hit a home run. So lets quit making federal cases out of these "disgraced" baseball players and focus on the real culprit, which is capitalism. To quote my Dad "no one is going to pay $75.00 a ticket to watch me take inventory at Publix" that was in response to someone saying professional athletes salaries are way too high. MLB is a marketable commodity which generates $17 billion a year, players are under pressure from owners, fans, espn, sports writers and even baseball memorabilia compaines to include jersey's and baseball cards. When I go to see a baseball game I am comfortable with the fact that the worst guy on the field is 6 milllion times better than me. So when there is that kind of pressure players look for an "edge" to stay on top of their game, is steroids the answer probably not. At the same time none of these guys are commiting crimes against society, they are under intense pressure to perform day in and day out or risk getting put out to pasture at 25 with no marketable skills. If ESPN were around when Ruth or Chamberlain played do you think they would talk about their womanizing for 24 hours a day? Under today's microscope people are bound to screw up and makes mistakes, "OMG A-rod took steroids, OMG Phelps is a pothead" Get a job people, this is entertainment not life or death, so take off your white wig and get off your high horse, if you want to be pissed off at someone stand outside your local bank and throw needles at the branch manager when he walks out to his $200,000 Benz that we are paying taxes for him to drive or go to a church and throw small dildo's at the catholic priests when they walk out of their tax shelter/ house of "God". Gimme a break and find a better outlet for your pent up hostilities. Thank you.