Now That's a Novel Idea

Mark Kreigel over Foxsports.com has written an excellent article about the need for amnesty for former steroid users in Major League Baseball.

The time has come for Commissioner Bud Selig to grant amnesty to the ballplayers who used performance enhancing drugs prior to the establishment of the Major League testing policy.

The home run records are tainted. They will remain tainted, asterisk or not, as there is no mathematical formula to factor out the influence of deca durabolin, stanozolol, or any of the BALCO balms. The crime has been committed. And it wasn't just the players who got away with it, but the industry itself. There's plenty of blame to be shared among the players, the owners, the media, the union and, of course, the commissioner who didn't want to know anything until it was too late.

For the fans, steroids have become a pretty tired issue, and this is one of the rare articles of late that doesn't fall back on arguing about the Bond's case.