Baseball's Steroids Policy/Eddie Guerrerro

First and Foremost, condolences to the friends and family of "Latino Heat" Eddie G. was a guy that was very well respected in the wrestling industry, but as my man Zach Baker said, he has become another name on a list that keeps growing, and it isnt as much of a surprise anymore. Apparently heart failure figured into the equation, which stemmed from his extremely long hours of work and his substance abuse. It should be noted that he celebrated his 4th year of sobriety a few weeks ago, it just goes to show the long term effects of these "substances" that he took. Its too bad, you cant help but feel bad for his family, he left behind a wife and 3 girls. Say what you want about Vince McMahon, but that guy put together one hell of a tribute show last night, and that was a very moving beginning to Monday Night Raw. Vinny Mac is a legend.

Baseball finally put through this 50-100-Life Steroid Policy which should all but eliminate this substance from the sport. I'm anxious to see what kind of results we'll get in terms of overall power numbers, and I'm anxious to see how these players look during spring training. Basically, you have to be an absolute moron to abuse this system. If you are caught once, you miss out on 30.8% of the season, which is enough for you to become an afterthought, unless of course you are a well established superstar.

I'm also very glad that this was passed because it could have a domino effect on the rest of sports. Kids these days must be aware of the danger of steroids. ESPN.com conducted a poll late last January that asked the question to fans in all sports, (it went something like this) would you take steroids, knowing the consequences, knowing they wouldnt guarantee you success, but at least give you a better chance at it? 51% of the people who were polled said no they wouldn't. To me that number is scary as hell. If we do not make it clear to the youth of America that Steroids can and more than likely will do a lot of harmful things to you, then these kids are going to take these chances. In turn, the more they roll the dice, the more we'll hear stories about kids dying of heart failure at age 18, or losing legs and other body parts before the prime of their lives.

One final note on this, can congress get involved again and institute a salary cap? Or better yet a spending minimum for MLB owners? If they can get Selig's pitch across the plate (no pun intended) on steroids, then there is no way that they can't get something done in regards to a salary cap. Hopefully they'll get started on that, so we can stop seeing the same teams (Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Braves, etc.) in the playoffs over and over and over. We see these teams in the playoffs as often as we see re-runs of Roseanne on Nick at Nite. Also, Screech had a better chance with Kelly than teams like the Tigers, D-Rays, Pirates, Brewers and Reds have of making it to the playoffs every year. Lets get that fixed.