In a recent article quoted in USA Today, New York Yankee slugger Jason Giambi indicated that he thought that major league baseball owed the fans an apology concerning the steroids scandal that threatens to engulf major league baseball as San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds is near breaking Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves Henry Aaron's 755 home run record.
Giambi feels that major league baseball put pressure on the players to perform and that is why so many took anabolic steroids to put on some bulk and see many home run records fall. In the Associated Press article http://pasadenastarnews.com/search/ci_5333679 Mr. Giambi sounds contrite and also trying to put the blame for steroid use on others. Mr. Giambi also has never denied or affirmed if he himself used the banned substance.
The issue I have is that once again, while claiming to have been upfront about his potential use, or not, Mr. Giambi really has not been and seems to be ready to blame others. While there was some truth potentially to it, the point is that he, along with all that did take the steroids should and must come clean. The more that there is any suspicion, the more it will look like there is something to hide.
And that is what it looks like, a cover-up. Whether there is any conspiracy or not is not important, responsibility is. Players need to take responsibility for their actions, not blame it on others and let the chips fall where they may.
Mr. Giambi, Mr. Bonds and the others that have been implicated need to take responsibility and at the appropriate time, so do the powers to be in major league baseball. But sloughing off one's responsibility on some one else is just as wrong. Come clean, Jason, et al.
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