The clamor for baseball players involved in steroid use to come clean will not end soon as people inside the sport becomes very vocal on the issue. In the recent interview of the Tribune on Ernie Banks, the Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer said that Sammy Sosa should also make a confession like what Mark McGwire did. “Come clean with it,” Banks told the Chicago Tribune. “Explain it to them … Just say: ‘This is what happened.’ It’s hard to do, to admit this. Just admit it and live with it and understand it. I am sure a lot of people will forgive him,” Banks said.

During the 2005 congressional hearing, Sammy Sosa was among those baseball players invited to shed light on the alleged rampant steroid use in the league. Sosa denied that he used steroids but last year, the NY Times reported that he was one of the 104 players who were tested positive for a banned substance during the MLB’s 2003 survey testing. This report agitated some of the lawmakers and even planned to file a case against him for lying before the Congress. But again Sosa is keeping mum on the issue.

The Cubs representative Ernie Banks even traveled to the Dominican Republic last year just to contact Sammy Sosa. That effort did not return positive result since Sosa was in Brazil that time working as a representative for his country. Sosa worked with the Cubs in 2004 but his performance was not impressive during the final game of that season. Banks will not easily give up on the baseball slugger. He told the Tribune that he still want to talk to Sosa about the steroid issue. “I will just explain it to him and how the people are,” Banks said. “I don’t think he really understood that. People are for you; they want to see you do well. They are forgiving people. We haven’t won in over 100 years, so this audience here is pretty special,” the Hall of Famer said.

Banks want Sammy Sosa to comeback in the game and he is optimistic about it. “Throw out the first pitch, sing ‘Take Me Out To The Ballgame,’ you know, meet some of the players and all of that. I always thought that the way he left here and went to his demise here was quick,” said Banks. “The lesson from that is that fame is fleeting. It can go in a minute,” he added.

Now, would Sosa listen to what Banks suggests? The admission of Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire and other baseball players may be the deciding factor for Sosa. Whether he makes an admission or not, it will still be a guessing game as of this moment.

Meanwhile, Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada were reported signing for another 1 year contract with their teams. These two were also one of those controversial players since both of them were also involved in steroid use. Giambi will be signing again for the Colorado Rockies probably as a pinch hitter because of his previous performance and Tejada will return to the Baltimore Orioles as a shortstop.

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