Steroid Era*

A few days ago another Major League Baseball superstar, Alex Rodriguez, admitted to using steroids. I am not going to bash A-Rod, after all I am a fan of the Giants which had the most famous steroid user so far. Because of steroid use there are people that want to put an asterisk next to records that were set by people who used steroids. While I do not think that it was right for players to use steroids, I do not think that an asterisk should be put by there names. Instead of putting asterisks by names, we need to name this era like we have named past eras in baseball. We have had the live ball, the dead ball, integration, and free agency eras. You may be thinking that this would not be fair to all of the players that did not take steroids though. I would disagree with that statement. Even players that have not used steroids have been effected by steroid use because they were playing against players that did take steroids. If the players that took steroids had inflated statistics, then it would make sense that players that did not take steroids would have deflated statistics. In the end is naming the era going to effect how we view certain players? Probably not, but it will explain why players stats are the way they are during this time. As far as Major League Baseball is concerned, they do not need to worry about asterisks or eras. They need to focus on cleaning the game of steroids so that we can start a new era.