Good.

I’m glad David Ortiz was outed as a steroid user.

It’s about time.

Oh, sure, he’s about to get down to business and find out what he tested positive for. I’m not too worried about it. I’m sure it was something that was banned and that he took on purpose. But finally: I can rest now.

The outing of the 2004 Red Sox was only a matter of time. To Red Sox fans that are crushed today, or Yankees fans that are elated, what planet were you living on? To the Red Sox fans: do you really think your team was a paragon of virtue? To Yankees fans: do you really think that losing to the Sox in seven games in 2004 is now any less humiliating?

There are much bigger problems facing the league than who used steroids in 2004. Cliff Lee just got traded from the Indians to the Phillies, the latest in a long line of players (Belle, Manny, Thome, CC) who have taken a one-way train out of Cleveland because the Indians don’t have the resources to compete. My friend Cleveland Frowns has been all over this. A onetime baseball fan, he’s turned off to the skewed playing field, and I don’t blame him.

If the Indians had won the World Series in 1997, do you think he would care if Thome was outed as a steroid user? I sincerely doubt it. Why would I care as a Red Sox fan now? I love David Ortiz, but this is hardly surprising. All the writers get their stories and talk to the players who lament another one who fell by the wayside — except the catch is, they used to go to Papi for these quotes. We’re on some X-Files shit: Trust No One.

And that’s fine with me. I’m not here to talk about the past, because the past is gone. Let’s do things to make the future of the game better before we open up the witchhunt. I’m sick of steroids and except for the fans who love to see Boston fail, so is everyone else. I don’t blame those fans, either, but I’m wearing my Sox hat today and I’m still proud of what they did. What’s done is done. You can strike their titles from the record books if you want, throw up an asterisk, whatever. Doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to me. I’m over it.