I confessed a few years ago how I used to be a big-time baseball fan for many years. I did redeem myself by coming to realize that MLB was essentially just a slicker version of WWE, only with much better PR, and an entirely undeserved amount of national goodwill.

I have for many years now studiously kept away from baseball. To the point that I don’t even know who the current commissioner of baseball is (whether it’s the same sorry twit who presided over this fake sport when I stopped paying attention in 2005), and I don’t even care to look it up.

But Alex Rodriguez‘s confession and so-called apology via ESPN for steroid use sneaked through my anti-baseball-news barriers, and has me frothing at the mouth again.

Would anyone at all please explain any or all of the following things to me:

— Why would any sensible adult ever take baseball seriously when it is abundantly clear that the only real game involved is users of banned substances staying one step ahead of current testing technology and rules in order to break hallowed records and taking home tens or hundreds (as the case may be) of fraudulently earned millions?

(I see that I forgot to insert “with the active assistance (by action and inaction) of MLB and the players’ union” into the preceding sentence.)

— Why would any sensible parent encourage their children to become baseball fans?

— Why is it that almost everyone in baseball regards the use of a corked bat as an unspeakable abomination but is barely offended by illegal steroid use?

— Why is it that MLB cannot even muster up enough outrage at illegal steroid use to wipe out all steroid-assisted “records” from the hallowed and sacrosanct record books?

— Why is it that Alex Rodriguez is not summarily fired and banned forever from baseball?

— Why is it that Alex Rodriguez is not sued all the way to the poorhouse and then some by baseball fans for premeditated fraud?

— Why is it that Alex Rodriguez is not sued all the way to the poorhouse and then some by the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees for grand larceny?

— Who did/does Alex Rodriguez take acting lessons from?

— How funny is it that the mighty A-Rod was known in the Yankee clubhouse as A-Fraud? (Of course, no one knew that he was taking banned substances and he himself doesn’t know to this day what banned substance he was naive and negligent enough to take due to the enormous pressure of having to live up to the enormous expectations created by his supersize salary.)