Relationship between Steroids and Baseball goes stronger

Many baseball greats and sporting confederations have been engaged in a never-ending debate on whether steroids should be allowed in baseball or not. The fact that the Hall of Fame includes some of the baseball players who took steroids or who belonged to the Steroid Era has been a major point of discussion on almost a daily basis.

The fact that Barry Bonds became the home run King surpassing Hank Aron's records is still fresh in the minds of all those who think that steroids and sports need to be separated from one other.

From USAtoday.com:

"I wish for once and forever that we could come out and say we have 100 and some names, name them all and get it over and let baseball go on," Aaron told the Associated Press on Tuesday night. "I don't know how they keep leaking out. I just wish that they would name them all and get it over with."

Aaron is right, but his solution, while exceedingly practical, would be almost impossible to implement.

MLB doesn't have the list, so even if it wanted to release the names, it couldn't. The players union would be the last group to want to reveal the names, so that's not an option. Federal agents seized the 2003 test results as part of the BALCO investigation. The union says the search was illegal, and the case is before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Meanwhile, the leaks continue. We will hear more names. So it would be much better for all concerned to get it over with, to have dozens of names tumble out in one huge news break, as Aaron suggests. But that won't happen. Instead, it will be a constant drip, drip, drip.

At this rate, figuring four names a season, we'll know them all in about 25 years. Interestingly, just this week, the Olympic world confronted allegations of positive drug tests among U.S. track and field athletes before the 1984 L.A. Games. That was 25 years ago.

Left unattended, the steroid issue in sports never dies.

Despite so much of debate, one thing that does not come out is the solution. This is primarily because separating sports from steroids is a tedious task by all standards. After all, steroids have consolidated their position in sports such as baseball and American Football in the last few years and some sportsmen almost swear by them.