AMNESTY!!! FUTURE COVER-UPS!!! Friday, April 11, 2008 was Black Friday for baseball fans

Employers do their firings on Fridays. MLB has the same philosophy for subtly pulling the wool over baseball fans eyes. With the sports media strongly concentrated on the Masters (golf), the two sides announced their new so-called joint drug agreement.

Nothing like continuing two major atrocities through a formal agreement.

The first atrocity is that amnesty is extended to anyone mentioned in the Mitchell report. That means if your say Paul LoDuca (or one of many other players) and there's a mountain of evidence against you that you perpetually cheated for a decade. Hey no big deal. Just do not let it happen again.

Of course if LoDuca does let it happen again, he can take comfort in the fact that MLB did not hand over testing to an independent regulator. Hence, the second major formal atrocity committed.

Baseball fans are supposed to put their faith in the same organization that nstituted a 10-strike program when faced by Congressional pressure to crack down on steroids? Baseball fans are supposed to believe in the MLB who once claimed that out of the 5-7 percent of steroid offenders caught in 2003, yet there were no repeat offenders in 2004? That being a result that would require outing a player and consequently enforce the belief that cheating in baseball is a plague.

Baseball is a timeless game, but we are seeing that corruption can spawn anywhere. As a fan I feel pretty helpless, watching greed and power plays soil the sport. The game does not currently face any financial ruin, but a leader or two must step up to ultimately save the integrity of the game. We've went as far as we can go on the likes of characters like Jose Canseco.

And don't be fooled into thinking amnesty is for only the players in the Mitchell report. This is a grandiose evidence burning party for people in all levels of baseball, including owners, GMs, managers, coaches, etc.

In the mean time, mark it in your journals; Friday, April 11, 2008 is the day that MLB preserved their right to run themselves more like a mob than a business that seeks to inspire families that come to the park. At the beginning of the steroid storm, the ball boys started giving out foul balls to little boys and girls, instead of putting them in their buckets. Don't be fooled by MLB's tokens.