My first reaction to hearing Manny Ramirez was using steroids was "so..?" I feel we have all become so numb to these steroid allegations and to be honest its getting a little old. I am to the point that I really don't care any more. My opinion has always been that pitchers benefit more from drug use then hitters do anyways. My reasoning is that hitters still have to locate the pitch, time the pitch and drive the ball. If pitchers use drugs the most important thing it can do is heal your arm much, much faster and thus pitchers can pitch longer into games and be more dominating. If juiced pitchers are pitching to juiced hitters...who cares? Yes its the morality of the issue, but in the next few years we are going to find out that A LOT more players were juicing then we think today. So lets all just take a deep breath and enjoy a great baseball season.
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So let every juicer into the HOF? I think not, at least not with out some sort of asterisk, footnote, or allegorical symbol, etc. Just because 'roided batters hit 'roided pitchers, doesn't give this a fairy tale ending. To me, you have to let Pete Rose in before you let any of the juicers in, but that's another argument.
I agree. Pitchers do get the benefit of EITs.
However, baseball is meant to be played by players who work hard, train rigorously and practice their craft.
Every single era of MLB is tainted somehow. first it was only played by whites, with the use of coke, eventually the use of "greenies" and the amphetamine kick of the 80's, the dead ball era, expansion diluting the league and now the juiced era. Personally i believe Conseceo when he says 85% were on roids(he has been right about everyone so far). I dont need an asterisk or anything garbage like in the record book, I know what i saw and it was a juiced up product, but i still enjoyed it.
well said, very well said, i loved the product and it saved baseball
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