Steroids, steroids, pumped into your butt, so fancy-free

I'm sure you all (all one of you) can "surf" the "net" and find all you ever wanted to know about the Mitchell Report and doping in baseball (try FJM and cnnsi.com, for starters)--oh, by the way: happy Mitch-mas. Baseball is in the toilet.

But, the response from the players' union to the revelation (more of a confirmation of something we all more or less knew) that more than a few bad apples were running around for the last 20 years, injecting everything that could be liquefied into their asses to be stronger, longer, is really puzzling.

I mean, I knew the union's first response would be the same as ever: fuck you, none of your business, players rule! and fuck you. But then, there came a contradiction that I can't seem to work out--maybe you can help. The union declared the Mitchell Report out-of-bounds because it named names, and in the union's view doing so served only to humiliate those people named. Thus, and follow the logic, the whole report is morally bankrupt and the players are the real victims here. And then, a bunch of former players flooded the airwaves to make the claim that the whole steroids question is irrelevant to baseball as a business, because the fans have been showing up in record numbers for the last several years.

The contradiction is glaringly obvious. The fans don't care about steroids, which is why they keep coming to games. But, you shouldn't talk about steroids, because the players will be mortified. Why would the players care? Who would be judging them, if the almighty fans don't give a shit? What harm could knowing the names of steroid users do?

Bottom line: the MLB Players Union is run by a couple of morons. At least we know they reflect their members' views.