Caught With Pedoids

[DOUGHBOYS]

No matter if an allegiance is more towards 'real' baseball or fantasy baseball, there is one subject I've found that most are not eager to talk about.
PED's or steroids. We'll call them pedoids.
Most of us don't fully understand them. We know that players aren't supposed to use them because it gives players an advantage. We know the old pedoids would make players loom more like gorillas, with balding, over sized heads.
They must be streamlined because skinnier guys are getting caught.
And we know these users as cheaters.
And that, I believe, is where we have a problem.
There is no category in baseball for cheaters. Stealing signs, throwing spitters, even corking a bat all seem like momentary cheating.
Pedoid's is a lifetime decision. To cheat.
These players wear scarlet x's once caught.
What drives us crazy as baseball people is that there is nowhere to put these players. Some deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
Well, at least as their play on the field dictates.
But, we as fans and fantasy owners dance around these guys. So, we punish any body even remotely associated with Pedoids, not only because they cheated, but because we don't know what to do with cheaters.
So far, we know they won't be in the Hall of Fame.
Yet, at the same time, cheaters are welcomed with open arms and even given big free agent contracts while playing.
The largest contract in baseball is ARod's. A cheater.
Melky Cabrera signs a big free agent contract. A cheater.
Manny Ramirez is welcome to make comeback after comeback. A cheater.

Major League Baseball itself, does not know what to do with cheaters.
The fans have every right to be confused.
These cheaters are like gunslingers who take over a western town in a bad old western movie.
While there, they are catered to, cheered, and even loved.
But upon dying, everybody takes turns spitting on their graves.

Even the mess that broke out this week could be complicated. The press has focused on ARod, while first time linkers, Gio Gonzalez and Nelson Cruz issue the usual denials.
The press are missing the boat. They should be focusing on Melky Cabrera and Yasmani Grandal. These are players who were busted last year.
Let's say MLB investigates and decides to implement penalties for these players.
Gio, Cruz, and ARod would be easy....50 games.
What do you do with Melky and Grandal?
If they are given a 100 game penalty, their agents are sure to say, 'Hey wait a minute! My client was tested and failed for these same pedoids that were bought last year. We're being penalized twice for the same offense!
Double Jeopardy.....I'll take cheating for 100, Alex.

With the fake web site, we caught a glimpse of Melky Cabrera's dark soul.
What about a scenario where MLB approaches Cabrera, guaranteeing him 'time served ' in return for verifying that this was the place he purchased his pedoids.
If verified, it effectively throws ARod, Cruz, and Gio under the bus as it lends so much credence to the story.
It's all cloak and dagger stuff. But then again, so is cheating.