No Frank, I have to agree with Charles Barkley on this one. Why on earth should athletes be held to a higher standard of behavior than musicians? Rock stars are at least as influential as baseball players.
The stars of today are no less moral or clean living than the stars of fifty years ago. It is just that the press has become one extended National Enquirer and everything is reported and distorted. Parents are, or should be, the role models for their kids. But parents have abdicated this responsability and passed it on to teachers and celebraties. We have all become a society of "Do what I say, not what I do" adults. If your kids are more influenced by a baseball players behavior than by yours, you need to rethink your parenting skills.