Yep, Everyone’s Dirty…Now What?
December 14, 2007 by Ryan
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Here’s a great question:
Which is worse? Barry Bonds who has hit a ton of homeruns, won NL MVP 7 times, and holds one of the most hallowed records in baseball or Roger Clemens who has tossed a ton of K’s, won 7 Cy Young Awards, and 2 World Series rings
- Micah Bate
Let me just say that I called Clemens! We all knew the Mitchell Report would be big and it is. Tons of names. Tons of big names. It kind of pains me to see my childhood hero Wally Joyner on there, but, as I have stated in other posts, it was a different time. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m not saying the players are less to blame than the trainers or the owners or the commissioner. Hopefully, this presents a big enough shakeup to where real changes can be made to prevent the use of performance enhancing substances.
I still say that you can’t asterisk the whole era! I would not be a baseball fan today if it weren’t for that era! And I don’t think many of you would. But that can be debated and quarreled over, the more important point now is: Let’s make the right changes and MOVE ON!
Update
Here’s a great quote I found from Bro. Murphy on ESPN:
It’s disappointing and discouraging, but this is the moment baseball has been waiting for to shock us into action. Now we have a golden opportunity to quit the fighting between the union and the owners and, like Sen. Mitchell said, turn the testing over to a truly independent agency that can help solve this problem. It’s an opportunity I hope baseball doesn’t miss. We can still change the culture of baseball.
- Dale Murphy, seven-time NL All-Star and two-time MVP. Since retiring in 1993, Murphy runs “I Won’t Cheat,” a grassroots foundation aimed at helping America’s youth make the right choices when it comes to cheating and performance-enhancing drugs.
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I definitely got interested in baseball again when Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were battling it out for the home run crown. I was on my mission in Trenton, NJ, and whenever either one hit a home run they would put them on the cover of a newspaper. So each day when we walked by the newsstand I’d take a peak to see how they were doing. It was really exciting. That being said, it’s kind of sad what has happened to the sport. People love the long ball, they love the power hitters. But this shouldn’t be the cost. It’s nice to see some people like Dale stepping up and spreading awareness. Too bad about Wally. I hope A-Rod is clean so when he surpasses Bonds on the home run list we’ll have a respectable king again. (even if you hate the yanks)