Where have all the Heroes gone?!?

I woke up this morning to the annoying gong noise my cell phone makes that let me known I had a text waiting. The text was from my friend Corey, a fellow baseball enthusiast and all around nice guy, it said, "Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003." I was crushed after reading this bombshell. I felt as if someone ripped out my baseball sized heart and whacked over the green monster that is my hopes and dreams. At first I thought he was joking, poking fun at arguable the best player in all of baseball. When I turned it on ESPN to see for myself, I knew it was true. I just don't understand, have we slipped so far down morally as a culture that it's harder and harder to find heroes, or people to admire?? It seems to me that every time I turn on the tv I hear about another "superstar" getting caught with there hand in the cookie jar. A-Rod, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens in the world of baseball. In the basketball world there's Kobe and Sir Charles with their transgressions. But this moral slip isn't reserved for people in the sports world. "Heroes" in other arenas lack the moral character they once had. Bernie Madoff in the world of finance and I could name at least five government officials that took off their white hat years ago.

I feel like Charlie Brown in his classic Christmas special living in a world that lost it's way. There's a scene where he can't take it anymore and yells at everyone, I feel a Charlie Brown moment coming on, excuse me.

AARRGH!!!! WHEN DID WE STOP DOING THE RIGHT THING AS A COUNTRY!?!? WHEN DID WE STOP DOING WHAT'S RIGHT AND STARTED DOING WHAT WE FELT LIKE!!!!! LIFE IS BLACK AND WHITE, NOT A WORLD OF GREY!!!! DO GOOD, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN! ARRGH!

Ok sorry bout that, what was I saying again? So I ask you where did we go wrong?? How can we get this country back on track? Will there ever be a time when I won't fear picking up a magazine or turning on the television because I'll have to hear about another American Titan's skeletons.

Good Grief