This season has been strange to say the least. After Memorial day the two teams with the highest payrolls, Yankees and Tigers were in last place in their division. Coincidentally, the two teams with the lowest payrolls, Marlins and the Rays, were in first place in their division. So, it only makes sense that someone makes this season even stranger and ends up at the end of the season with a .400 batting average. That someone could be Chipper Jones.

This is simply great for the game. In recent years we have been watching juiced up fools bash home runs over the fence over taking some of the games greats. Finally we don’t have a home run watch this season. We have a .400 watch. This is so refreshing because Chipper seems legit, (but, you never know) and could bring integrity back to this game. So, when does Chipper’s .400 watch begin to scroll below the screen when you’re watching ESPN? How about now. We hype up home run chases from the first swing that Barry Bonds, or Alex Rodriguez take. So why not hype up a pure hitter’s approach to one of the hardest things to do in baseball?

Chipper Jones is hitting .418 right now. 418!!!! Are you kidding me!! All this in the national league, a.k.a. a pitcher’s league. In the past 50 years there have only been three other players to be hitting as well as Chipper is past May 29th. Hank Aaron in 1959, Rod Carew in 1983, and Rico Carty in 1974. People, a .400 watch is extremely rare and we need to be paying attention. It comes about just as often as Haley’s Comet and we need to marvel at it.

I hate the Atlanta Braves just as much as the next guy. I don’t even like Chipper Jones that much to be honest with you. But, if with one amazing, hit filled, unique season this Brave that I hate can bring back respect to the game I love. I’m routing for you Chipper.

According to the New York Times, the federal government will look to question 104 MLB players who tested positive for steroids in 2003. Finally the government is doing something more than just naming names like what happened with the Mitchell Report. I guess they finally realized that they all used them illegally and there may be more than one law broken in using them.

The feds got the test results from a BALCO investigation in which they seized several reports of players using performance enhancing drugs. Now, all those names mentioned in the Mitchell Report who said, “oh George Mitchell didn’t do the investigation properly” or “I never used performance enhancing drugs, he has no proof, just speculations,” will finally have own up to their use.

They will also have to own up to destroying the game that you and I love. Sure a bunch of juiced up fools crushing a ball 400 feet is entertaining, but the integrity of the game was ruined during the 90’s thanks to idiots like Bonds, McGwire, and Canseco. These subpoenas will now force players to tell the truth and reveal what they did to America’s game.

The government will ask these steroid abusers where they got their stuff from and we will find out just how much MLB players will go through to get big and make a couple bucks. The 104 names will be asked to give testimony to either federal agents or grand juries in order to find their suppliers and help clean up sports as a whole. If these players had any brains they would tell the truth. Just look at Bonds, Tim Montgomery, and Marion Jones.

So far the only way these players who have been caught for steroid use have gotten in major trouble is when they lie about it and Bonds with the news he received this week(Indicted on 14 charges) is the biggest juice filled example of that. Just tell the truth so that we can clean the game up, realize your a fraud, and move on from this steroid era.