As Ronald Reagan once said, "well, there you go again"The steroid scandal is like a venereal disease. It is the gift that just keeps on giving. I want to state first of all, the basically, I am what they call a purist when it comes to sports.The records are almost sacred, and must be kept that way.
In my opinion, Roger Maris is still the single season home run king, and Hank Aaron is still the all time home run King. Why? Because Bods, at least it appears so, cheated, Big Mac cheated, A-Roid cheated, and on and on. Now, we have Roger Clemens facing federal perjury charges for lying about taking PEDS, or HGH.
Bonds is due to stand trial in the Spring for lying to a grand jury about taking peds. Now, I am not saying Bonds did steroids or hgh, but when a 38 year old man grows two full hat sizes, something is a little fishy.
Bonds said that if he did take something it was not intentional, and he thought that it was something else. A-Roid said that he didn't know what his cousin was injecting him with. Now, I don't know about you, but I like to know what is being injected when someday is shooting something up my old behind. The conversation between A-Roid and his cousin must have gone something like this. " hey, Alex,want to play doctor?"
"Sure, cous, let's play."OK, Alex, let me give you a vitamin shot. Bend over."
The sixteen injections that Clemens allegedly received must have been an act of innocence, too.
The law says " the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind be also guilty" The public is smarter, are least I hope that is is, to believe that if these guys make that their argument. " We did it but we didn't think that we were doing something wrong."
If they do not think that it was wrong, why did they all lie when they were asked if they took any peds?
I sure hope that the Hall of Fame never allows their sacred portals to be darkened by these frauds, and I hope these guys have to live witht their guilty minds.
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I had always thought that there was some type of Divine order to this chaos. I always wanted to believe that everything happened for a purpo...
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Cedar: Good points, however...if I have learned anything over the last three decades (egad) is that news reports are nothing but cheap talk...e.g. don't believe everything you read or hear in the news...news is a commercial business these days and it has an agenda...where is Walter when we need him?
I know, GF, but some of these guys admitted that they took them. To me that is enough to ban them from the HOF. just my opinion. And yes, you are right, Bonds and Clemens have not had their day in court yet, and are assumed innocent.
I just hope that we have learned and steroids are a thing of the past in sports, but of course, that is a fantasy.
Cedar: I agree on the admissions. I only wonder about Bonds and Clemans of those listed. I am not totally sure how I feel about the steroid use and records though. Anyone looking at the photographs of Bonds and others can see a huge difference. I have a difficult time believing that MLB didn't know what was going on and said "Don't do it 'wink-wink'. Pretty good PR for MLB when the home runs started flying. As far as anyone else using steroids or peformance enhancing drugs I have to raise questions regarding where the line is drawn. Can pitcher have reconstructive surgery on their shoulders/elbows...etc. As far as the HOF goes...is it suppose to mean that they are great people or does it just mean that they set records? There certainly are a lot of MLB players in the HOF that were at least allegedly miserable SOBs. Oh, just read where some stat people took an RBI away from Mantle and it moved Maris up to the top of the RBI list one year. I am not sure that anyone, especially the deceased Mantle and Maris really care. Kind of like going back to the Nebraska...whomever national NCCA championship a couple of decades ago where the whomever player is showed by replay to have been a full stride out of bounds when he caught the pass that gave them the chance for the go ahead and winning touchdown. I had a friend from Nebraska that played that over, over, and over and yelled each time he saw it. Of course that didn't change the declared outcome. Say how about the recent perfect game that was lost because the first base umpire blew an obvious 'out' call at first base? Sheez, seems I have run on and on and gone down several tributaries in the proces. Better get back on my ADD drugs and focus. I have got to go back to work...
You could be right, GF, but this is something i am a hard head about LOL. You and Leon feel the same way, and we go round and round about it.Maybe it is because you were both jocks, and have a different perspective on it.
I know Ty Cobb was allegedly an A-hole.I just don't like cheating, but maybe even weight machines are peds of a sort. The debate will go on for years, long after we are gone.
Didn't you hold the record for the discus for awhile? If you did, would you have been happy about someone on roids breaking it?
Cedar: Good points. I have mixed feelings on it. With regard to my 'record' I viewed it as an accomplishment that I was proud of but for someone breaking it...well I have always felt that records were meant to broken. If someone was on something when they broke it, well it was still broken and it only mattered to me way back when. Of course MLB is a different story.
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