Thinking that baseball can this quickly and easily move pass the steroid issue is a bit näive or, at the very best, unrealistically hopeful thinking.  This is a shadow that will hang over the sport for a number of years and the best thing the sport can do is to come out of the closet and address it as openly and honestly as it can and hope its legitimate stars will eventually bring the full attention back to the game.

You are clearly biased in this and that is alright for your piece, but unless you know and have speaked to either player personally you are just as influenced by whatever stream of information you choose to follow as the rest of us and you cannot really know which player is giving us the more honest rendition of their story.