As I begin typing this the list of steroid users is coming out. In fact, in the last hour the preliminary list was "leaked" and now MLB is saying that the list has errors. Regardless of errors, what does this mean for the future of baseball? A friend mentioned it is like the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919. As he said that we both quickly agree this steroid thing is probably a lot worse. How much worse? What will happen? Will fans stop going to games? Stop buying jerseys? Stop buying baseball cards (I guess they already did that about 1993 but we will talk about that another day)? My take is the list is so large, and with this many guilty people there are more who somehow avoided detection, that people may have to just pretend this didn't happen.
We can't really put an asterisk by every single record in the record book because that is practically what would happen. Well, except for the all-time hits king but he has other problems; maybe a double asterisk!?
As someone on the radio said, if steroid users are not elected to the hall of fame then Cooperstown would be far from complete as they would not have the all-time hits king, the all-time HR king and maybe the best modern day pitcher (Clemens). How sad!
Plus, it's not like the old-timers didn't do a bunch of illegal stuff that may have enhanced their performance... cocaine most notably was rampant! Plus, as much beer as the old-timers drank they never felt any injuries! Even during prohibition they were drinking so it was illegal for at least a few years!
What's my conclusion? I am working on that....
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