| I think we need more asterisks. How about asterisks for Ruth, Williams, Cobb, Johnson, Gehrig, Grove, Musial, DiMaggio, Mathewson, Hornsby, Young, Foxx, Speaker, Wagner, Alexander, Ott, Greenberg, Spahn, Feller, Jackson, Walsh, Brown, Lajoie, Collins, Berra, Hubbell, and Plank for playing all or some of their years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier? Surely it was an unfair advantage, historically speaking, to play against watered down, whites-only competition. Now what about Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Seaver, Robinson, Schmidt, Palmer, Bench, Carlton, and Gibson, for amphetamine use? Koufax used illegal muscle relaxers intended for racehorses. Who's left? Bonds, Clemens, Rodriguez, and Ramirez already have steroid asterisks, but their contemporaries -- Johnson, Maddux, Pujols, Martinez, Guerrero, Griffey, Thomas, and Rivera all played during the steroid era too, so we can't be entirely sure they were clean and should assume they may have been guilty as well. That leaves... nobody. Stop pretending to protect sacred records and milestones. It's just a game. I love baseball as much as anyone, but don't pretend everybody before the steroid era was some precious temple of baseball purity. It just isn't true. |
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