Baseball is believable again

The home run total in Major League Baseball has gone down this year and Torii Hunter, center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim California West Coast Baseball Club, thinks steroids testing has something to do with it.

At least we’ve reached that point.

The league leaders in home runs, Ryan Howard in the NL, Miguel Cabrera in the AL, look nothing like the juiced up bombers of the past. In fact, they look more like the only juice they use is on the side of their 10-egg omelet in the morning.

The new MLB may not be chock full of longballs and moon shots, but at least its believable again.

While players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa brought baseball back to prominence with their amazing feats of strength and growing hat sizes, they were tearing it down by casting a shadow of doubt over every player in league.

For years, after these players lost their relevance, players were being blamed for taking steroids, even if they were clean.

Even as Howard approached 50 dingers last year, the national media was wondering if it was clean.

Maybe now, as the homers dip and a superstar proclaims the use of steroids in baseball is almost gone, we can get back to loving the national pastime. Not to say we shouldn’t keep testing, I believe we should begin blood testing, but that we can start believing the system is working.

Now we can start looking at our stars as the athletes they are not the villains of the past.