Inspired by this post over at Freakonomics page, I had an idea for how baseball should deal with steroids.

If someone tests positive for steroids, their team forfeits five games in the standings.

Look, anyone who bothered to read the Mitchell Report and read between the lines realized something very important. The teams knew this was going on. The people running individual baseball teams knew who was doping. You don’t make multi-million dollar decisions and not find out if your $50 million shortstop is on the juice. I have no doubt that the general managers of all the teams knew who was doing what and when.

So, punish the organizations. Turn guys who dope into pariahs who have cost their team in the standings. I am sick and tired of all the guilt in the steroid business being foisted onto the players. The media, the teams and the commish knew what was going on. Time for them to shoulder some of the responsibility for keeping the sport clean.

At they very least, this would guarantee that the fans will never cheer for another juicer.

I’m sure I’ll get blasted as a fascist for this. Oh, well. It’s just an idea.