Will somebody clean please stand up!

So, today, Sports Illustrated is reporting that 4 independent sources confirm that Alex Rodriguez was among the 104 players who tested positive in 2003 for performance enhancing drugs. 104 out of about 1100 tested. That was almost 10 percent. No wonder the union couldn't protest instituting mandatory testing beginning in 2004. Nonetheless, between the BALCO case and Barry Bonds, the Mitchell report and Roger Clemens and now this with A-Rod, what is the baseball fan supposed to look to? Perhaps we can look to people like Greg Maddux who has never been linked to any of this, but he's retired now. So, who in the game, now, can we look to. Perhaps Chipper Jones? He's never been linked to any of this, although that doesn't necessarily mean anything. However, the fact that he's remained productive while still being injured suggests he hasn't done the steroid thing, otherwise, maybe he'd have been injured less often? Isn't that the idea? I don't know, maybe we just have to get rid of Selig and the head of the union and get a real drug testing policy with real penalties in place before we can say we can trust any of them or their numbers. This is all very unfortunate because baseball is a great game. However, it's reliance on the past and the history of the game require us to wonder if we'll ever be able to compare modern day performance with players of old, who did not have access to these types of drugs and therefore relied on nothing more than natural talent. I don't know, this upsets me, as a good baseball fan.