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The Summer Classic will set up camp in Cincinnati in 2015. And if you haven’t gleaned this from the title already, storylines should now be assaulting your brain like a pack of TIE fighters from Star Wars.
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Two weeks ago, we heard from the MLB commish himself, Rob Manfred, that the crimes committed against the game by Pete Rose were worse than using steroids. What an indictment! Personally, I believe this is Manfred covering up for Bud Selig as his successor, because could you honestly look yourself in the mirror and agree with this?
Of course you couldn’t. Selig fell asleep at the wheel while Major League baseball thrived during the steroid era. From a business perspective, baseball was booming in the black as Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds bludgeoned balls into orbit. So why wouldn’t the commissioner turn away from this blindly? Just a few years before baseball was in the shadow of steroids, it was in the shadow of the 1994 strike.
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Selig can forever hide behind the recovery of late-90s baseball with plausible deniability, but Manfred should’ve let those times stay in the past. Why on earth would Manfred put the two most explosive topics in baseball on a collision course? You can “Just Say No” to Rose without invoking steroids. It is possible.
What’s also possible is that Manfred’s illogical commentary might bring to light what we’ve learned today — that Rose will be allowed to have some role in the All-Star Game, at least according to the Chicago Tribune. This actually seems like a logical first step to righting a recent wrong and a big step to letting out the elephant that’s always been in the room — by letting Rose back into baseball.
Jerry Landry is a writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow Jerry on Twitter at @Jerry2Landry, “Like” him on Facebook or add him on Google
