The same with the MVP award given to Bonds, and others who cheated?
2007-12-20 06:08:07 · 11 answers · asked by geeks_gadgets 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I was unaware that Matt Clement was a multiple time winner of the Cy Young award, so i will assume you are talking about Roger ClemenS.
in all seriousness, you cannot start taking awards or numbers away from players, because you'll never truely know who used and how long they were using unless every user in major league baseball comes out and gives the details. For all we know, 98% of the batters Clemens faced could have been on the stuff, and basically put him on an even pedistal with the other users. Maybe he is telling the truth, and since he has never failed a drug test, really the only evidence is his word against a former trainers at this point, and while i do believe he is guilty, you can't start taking away numbers and awards based on hearsay. The bottomline is, that we are in the "performance enhancing drug era" in baseball, and really just about every sport from Football to Cycling, it has really just been magnified in baseball, as no other sport has as rich a history or a respect for records, and one of their best, Barry Bonds, came along and started putting up numbers like we hadn't seen out of men 10 years his junior, and it led to a jealous IRS agent digging through his trash and finding some dirt on him and Balco, and because of that baseball gets the most blame for the drug culture. Unfortunatley, you have to take the statistics of every player of the last 10-15 years with a grain of salt, even those that seem squeaky clean, because of the era we are in. I'm am by no means a Clemens fan, in fact, I despise him, but the idea of taking away awards and numbers, based on nothing more than hearsay is bogus
2007-12-20 06:31:05 · answer #1 · answered by James S 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well Clement doesnt have 4 cy youngs but Roger Clemens does and no it is he said she said. If you believe that steriods are not a much bigger problem stemming down to college and high school baseball than you havent played the game since the late 70's. i played a high level of college baseball and have many former teammates in the minor and a few that have debuted in the bigs. I didnt get drafted so i joined the Corps. Steriods were a bigger problem before testing implemented in the past couple of years but it is still huge and their are ways to get around testing and i hope this cleans up the game but you can not take away awards from people and give them to someone who didnt earn that award because the person in second most likely took steriods at some time in the career.
2007-12-20 15:13:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only "real" award that all baseball players seek is the eventual entry into the Hall of Fame. If any of these players are proven to have taken any of these drugs, and that proof has to be solid evidence, than Cooperstown will never be part of their resume.
Guys like Curt Schilling need to mind their own store and not worry about everyone else. He is nothing more than a self serving individual who just likes to hear himself talk and see his name in print. He over estimates his importance.
2007-12-20 16:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by The Mick 7 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wasn't aware Matt Clement had ever won the Cy Young Award.
Yeah, I know, you mean Roger Clemens. Innocent until proven guilty, and the guys who are saying he used steroids haven't shown the proof. Contrast that with Bonds and Palmeiro: There are positive tests, and no Hall of Fame for them, and Bonds' post-1998 MVP awards should be vacated.
2007-12-20 14:19:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
You can't clean up something like this. They definitely don't have proof, and it's very plausible that he only did it during his domination years in Houston. I highly doubt he's been taking steroids his whole career, but I don't mercy the guy, he took them at least 2 years maybe 3.
2007-12-20 14:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by Chris Stewart 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Who says the 2nd place finishers didn't use something?
2007-12-20 14:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by kevin m 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
whos clement?
2007-12-20 15:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by stevensherm 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is what Schilling says MLB should do but it will never happen.
2007-12-20 14:34:40 · answer #8 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nope. 2nd place Randy Johnson used HGH for 2 of those years.
2007-12-20 14:22:41 · answer #9 · answered by Stewie Griffin 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
that is too stupid to bring up / we'll NEVER KNOW all players involved
2007-12-20 15:15:22 · answer #10 · answered by doghouse 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋