The report is scheduled to be released at 2pm ET, and mentions about 60 present and past players that are guilty of steroid abuse, including Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. What should baseball do with their accomplishments in the records? Should they be excluded from the Baseball Hall of Fame?
2007-12-13 04:50:22 · 4 answers · asked by Steve C 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Wipe them out, they dont deserve to have any records if they played with any illegal subtends. It's not right & unfair for those who play the game cleanly. I dont think they should be able to get in the Hall of Fame either.
2007-12-13 05:00:35 · answer #1 · answered by gcamberos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do? For the playing statistics, nothing. The stats are a record of history, of what happened; editing or modifying them in ANY way (except to correct clerical errors) is serving a political agenda and a disservice to history and to truth. Footnote all you want, but Bonds hit 73 homers in 2001 (as one example), and nothing changes that, ever.
This is a tangent, but consider Bonds hitting 73 -- the sheer amount of talent coupled with willpower to decide "I'm gonna hit more than 70 home runs in one season" and then DOING it. Magic waters or Chemical X or whatever, that is simply incredible, indescribable. Bonds deserves more credit than he'll ever get, just for knowing how good he has been.
The Hall sets its own policies, but so far only permanent ineligibility from MLB has been enough to remove a person from consideration before reaching any ballot. And, given how widespread use of PEDs apparently was in the 1990s, there is still a historical story to be chronicled there, and to do that without ANY players leaves a gaping, Miller-class hole.
2007-12-13 13:01:47 · answer #2 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that no penalties were set out before the research began for this report, I don't think they can or should punish the players. This is especially true if the substances they used were not banned at the time by major league baseball.
Players should not be made to pay for the transgressions of ownership and the commissioner. If they were within the rules at the time, why should they be retrospectively punished?
2007-12-13 12:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing! THey can not prove that the were using steriods! People can lie! Unless they have drug test proving that they were on sterod's they should leave it the hell alone!
2007-12-13 13:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by melp1010 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋