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“Why do the steroid guys belong in the HOF? Barry Bonds is not the most talented player in history. We don’t know how talented he was, don’t know if he would have stayed healthy. We only know how good he was while juicing, and we only have the theory of his jealousy over the Sosa/McGwire homer race to tell us when he started.
And why does Bill keeps saying: “Well what do we do with Ty Cobb then?” People say this all the time, but how is juicing comparable with racism or even using Greenies?
The start of steroids is pretty easy to figure out. It began when baseball’s statistics became distorted. Bill can talk about the 70s all he wants. Sure, people have cheated in sports forever, but never did the numbers skew so out of control and baseball has always, more than any other sport, been a game of numbers and records.
Finally, perhaps I’m unique, but at the time I was horrified when McGwire and Sosa chased Maris. I couldn’t believe people were all excited, and I wanted the Maris family to stay far away. It was the start of baseball’s downfall. I’ve been a rabid fan since I was five years old (61 now), and I never would have believed baseball could lose me. But it has, quite some time ago.
I assume they all cheat now, and that includes Judge, and I have no interest in watching batters swinging at pitches that bounce and/or hit them, no interest in watching homeruns or nothing, no interest in idiots who can’t bunt for doubles or go the other way to counteract the shift, and no interest in players who can’t do anything else. I don’t admire their “accomplishments”, they haven’t earned them
I don’t know what’s being played now, but it sure isn’t baseball.
P.S. Bill, I never liked Aaron, but I was thrilled when he passed Ruth. My 13 Year old self stood with my dad in our living room and applauded him.”
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