How Can Anybody be Interested in Baseball?

I no longer understand how anyone can be interested in baseball as a sport. Baseball has reached the same level of credibility that cycling and professional wrestling have -- albeit on a much larger scale. The A-Rod revelations aren't the tipping point -- it's just an example of how the sport doesn't get the point. How can Cal Ripken say he is "shocked and surprised?" Are we supposed to laugh, like that moment in Casablanca when Capt. Louis Renault says that he's shocked to find gambling in Rick's casino?

And then Bud Selig says, "I don't want to hear the commissioner turned a blind eye to this or he didn't care about it." He's joking, right? Right? Jose Canseco wants an apology? He's joking, too -- right? Roger Clemens? Please stop.

How can anybody be interested? Except those who find legal reality shows on CourtTV interesting.