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Reply to "Steroids and the Hall of Fame"

As in the movie "School Ties" Matt Damon plays a student that "cheats" on a test. The class then poses the questions, to the instructor, why couldn't they all just take the test over, the professor tells them that if he did that he would in affect allow the cheater to get away with it, and then make everyone else complicit in the cheating.

That is what is happening here. By virtue of the fact that baseball knew that this activity was going on and the results of the stats that were being put up by pitchers, and other position players, were tainted by drugs, not just steroids, has corrupted the entire game. Because baseball has allowed this to go on for so long the results are that everyone has become corrupted, from front offices to the playing field everyone is dirty.

There is only one thing to do, fire the commissioner, put an oversight commission in place to evaluate the best way to implement a anti-drug policy that has teeth, and is legal in that it complies with the US Constitution, and consider erasing all records achieved by all players from 1980 to 2005. That is the price that baseball should pay for allowing cheating to go on. But in this country "cheating" is considered an acceptable way to get an "edge" as long as you don't get caught. Little chance of that happening.

Unless the users of the drugs that enhanced their performance would like to come forward, come clean and take their punishment like men. But I don't anticipate there are many men in baseball with that kind of courage.
Last edited by Ramrod
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