Do steroid users belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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2012/06/07 20:03:51
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- Can we quantify what effect PEDs had on performance?
- Have any records been officially stripped?
- By all accounts use was widespread.
- Other eras have been marked with PED use like greenies and other uppers.
- Records have always been affected by an outside source. For half a century only white players played, leaving black players out of record books and potentially inflating white player numbers. Expansion always thins out level of competition that effects states. The use of greenies and introduction of cookie cutter ballparks/astroturf lead to an increase in speed records. Today, smaller parks, thinner pitching staffs, changes to rules and use of better equipment all lend an effect to stats. This goes hand in hand with point one - what effect has PED use really had?
- There is no way of fairly knowing and singling out everyone that used. Finally at least McGwire was honest with us. But how can we really know that Ripken didn't use to extend his games played streak or that Griffey didn't? Take their words? Letting some in without question while singling others out either with some or limited knowledge is unfair and in a process based on morality its hypocritical to be unfair.
- It was, like so many others in baseball, a particular era. Oh we...
- Can we quantify what effect PEDs had on performance?
- Have any records been officially stripped?
- By all accounts use was widespread.
- Other eras have been marked with PED use like greenies and other uppers.
- Records have always been affected by an outside source. For half a century only white players played, leaving black players out of record books and potentially inflating white player numbers. Expansion always thins out level of competition that effects states. The use of greenies and introduction of cookie cutter ballparks/astroturf lead to an increase in speed records. Today, smaller parks, thinner pitching staffs, changes to rules and use of better equipment all lend an effect to stats. This goes hand in hand with point one - what effect has PED use really had?
- There is no way of fairly knowing and singling out everyone that used. Finally at least McGwire was honest with us. But how can we really know that Ripken didn't use to extend his games played streak or that Griffey didn't? Take their words? Letting some in without question while singling others out either with some or limited knowledge is unfair and in a process based on morality its hypocritical to be unfair.
- It was, like so many others in baseball, a particular era. Oh well. Home runs hit and strikeouts made weren't optical illusions. A human body actually moved and struck the ball and it actually flew in the air a particular distance before landing.