The A-Fraud in All of Us.

As spring training starts anew and the boys of summer sharpen their skills for a new season, let's not forget that baseball is just a game. Entertainment. Folly. Fun. Something to help us waste time between drinking binges.

We should also not forget that the real solution to the steroids issue in sports is not banning and testing. The real solution is making them mandatory. (Which seemed to be the policy of baseball and Bud Selig from about 1988 till 2005)

Seriously. Mandatory steroid use would level the playing field and make for better games. And isn't that what we really want anyway?

I know that more than a few of you have a problem with that line of reasoning. There are some of your who will lean on the tired crutch of the "purity of the game" argument. But doesn't technology always change the game over time? Including medical advances like steroids.

There are some of you who would posit the argument that athletes using steroids is a bad influence on your kids. But ask yourself, what's the influence of the 900 beer commercials they see while watching a sporting event?

No, the real thing that we dislike about A-Rod and his ilk is not the steroids, it's the hypocrisy and self-deception involved. His and ours. Because we know in our hearts that if someone offered us the chance to do steroids, play baseball and make tons of cash we'd do it in an instant. And that makes us feel dirty.

So we climb up on our high horse and shout condemnations. But it's fake and self serving. So drop you phony moral outrage and remember... it's just a game.