Weekly Baseball Thoughts

Since baseball season is in full swing I will try and get my thoughts out about what is going on in and around the major leagues. This week there has been no shortage of sensational stories coming out about the MLB.

Roger Clemens coming back will be the best thing for the Astros. Right now as they speak they sit 6.5 games back of the NL Central Leading Reds and Cardinals. The Cardinals will be lost without Albert Pujols and the Red's can't continue their torrid pace behind the arms of Harrang and Arroyo. After the 'Stros put Roy Oswalt (single handedly keeping my fantasy team in last place), the solid arm of the 43 year old will be a much needed asset for the Astros.

Speaking of Pujols, Pujols going on the DL not only kills the Cards it kills the MLB. Pujols had been setting a blazing pace by all ready hitting 25 bombs, could have brought America back its feet if he could have challenged Barry Bonds' single-season home run record. It would have made baseball fans feel as if they could once again trust their national pastime as being a clean and game full of people who are just athletic not illegally enhanced, but then again..............

Comes the news today of Jason Grimsley. Grimsley of course was busted by the feds for buying HGH (Human Growth Horomone). According to his affidavit (which can be seen here at the Arizona Republics website) he's not the only one. Just when we think it's over something else comes up. When will it end? Is anyone clean? If you are a baseball fan, then you have to be dissapointed with what is going on. Just when the game claims to be cleaning itself up something else happens. As fans we may just have to come to terms with the fact that everyone should be suspected, because you never know who is going to get caught next. Maybe this is the dark ages for the MLB. Maybe we will never be able to trust those athletes we put on a pedestal. One thing is for sure, we haven't seen the last of this story, and we won't for quite some time.