The Marshall family never understood the ways of the Sleestaks on the ’70s Saturday Morning show, Land of the Lost.

I do the same. Unfortunately, today is a day when headline writers are looking for something splashy. It’s time for the fans to say that we know enough and we’ve had enough.

We don’t HAVE to read anything. I try skip most of pete’s posts about the steroid stuff, and do most of my baseball reading on sites that are kind of ignoring this…baseball analysts, baseball prospectus, mlbtraderumors, chad jennings’ blog, stuff like that.

Basically…this story isn’t interesting to me. I vote with my eyes. I will easily be outvoted by people who prefer a soap opera to baseball, but there’s nothing I can do about that.

Exactly. But it would be fair.

Personally, and I think the vast majority of fans would agree, enough is enough. The writers are telling only one side of the story and are beating a dead horse.

That would be like biting the hand that feeds you.

So I would expect that until the media has decided to let this go, we will still have to read about it.

I opoligize for using such a crude analogy, but the steroid scandal is a lot like a prostitution ring. You have players doing something illegal and you have a commisioner/owner who basically pimped the drug users out.

I’ll be impressed when some writer has the guts to ask Bud Selig or anyone in Management if they’ve noticed a difference in the physical size of the players coming to Spring Training this year in comparison to the late ’90’s/early 2000’s. Or perhaps question them about financial estimates of the revenue growth from ‘95 to present and how much of that can be traced to records being broken on the field?

Andy Pettitte and the rest of the users were wrong. They were participants in a drug culture that greatly benifitted them financially. The exact same words can be used to describe Bud Selig and the owners.

If your going to grill Andy Pettitte, how about if someone grills Management?
Better yet, how ’bout if we just acknowledge that baseball has been tainted by a scandal, is recovering and we just move on?

As for anyone who doesn’t think that a great majority of MLB players from the last twenty years didn’t do some form of PED, is fooling themselves. This is probably the biggest travesty of the Mitchell Report…naming names. If they were unable to name more than ~1% of the players that that played over the last twenty years they should not have named any…but that would have been a big waste of ~20-million dollars.

Right. Jeff Novitsky is almost certainly on his way to speak with that High School friend of Pettitte’s I write this. That assumes of course that the local DA isn’t trying to get a piece of the spotlight by locking that guy up himself.

Unfortunately, Pettitte’s answers and non-answers today will not stop the frenzy. It’s the questions, not his answers that are the problem. For example:

“Andy have you finally told the truth about how many times you used HGH or any other PED? Why should anyone believe you now?”

“Once and for all, how many times have you used HGH or any other PED?”

“Andy, did you ever get HGH directly from your high school buddy?”

“Your testimony is being touted as the biggest problem Roger Clemens has right now. Do you think teammates should inform on teammates, friends give up friends?”

“Andy do you believe Roger?”

“Who is right, who told the truth, you or Roger?”

“Andy, if the allegations against Clemens are true, in your opinion does he or anyone who cheated belong in the Hall of Fame?”

This is so far from over.