Yankees' Alex Rodriguez tests positive for steroids

I think you mean he’s going to look even more like an ass.

this could destroy a-rod’s career. Look at sammy sosa or raphael palmiero, these allegations hurt, and if theyr true it also severely damages a-rods shelf life as a player.

somehow I think that their pursuit of mark Teixeira and these allegations are not unconnected. They knew sooner or later something like this would happen, and once A-Roid is off the juice, well…Things could get very ugly this season, like TO ugly. Theo was right not to heavily pursue him last offseason, and maybe Manny leaving was a blessing in disguise. Egotistic superstars do not win championships.

I actually agree with this. History is History, you can’t change it, you can only learn from it. There has been more then once that someone had a disadvantage and MLB has adjusted to combat this. In the beginning there were probably blacks that would be in record books, but they had a huge disadvantage in being discriminated against. It was a terrible time and we have corrected that, but doesn’t mean you question everyone from that era because maybe they weren’t the best. During the dead ball era pitchers had a huge advantage. They have corrected that as well with no longer using the same ball through a entire game, and stop allowing spit balls, but doesn’t mean we should asterix all the pitchers from that era.

And now, we have been through an era where a lot of MLB was enhancing their performace through illegal drugs. We are headed in the right direction of regulating this and correcting it, but what happened happened, we can’t change the past. If steriod use was as rampant as many expect, and you try taking out everyone who used , then you might as well not include the whole era in the records book, because whose to say that with pitchers and hitters using, that they didn’t just cancel each other out? How do you judge how good a mediocre pitcher was if he was clean and going against juiced hitters daily? Who becomes the moral judge that decides what stats we should change and what stats should be discredited? If we’re going to leave players out because they had an unfair advantage, why not go through the entire HOF and kick people out who had an unfair advantage?

To me, the HOF is like a museum for baseball. We have bad events in museums all the time because even though we are ashamed as humans to have had them happen, the fact is that they still happened. We can talk about how spit balls were unfair, and be ashamed that we ever treated other ethnics different and excluded them, and talk about what a a-hole Cobb was, or talk about how much better Ted William’s career numbers would have been if he never had gone off to war twice, or how Bonds A-Rod and Clemens wouldn’t have been as dominant without steroids, but all these things happened, and there is no way to change that. So you want to exclude players who juiced because it gave them an unfair advantage? Well then you tell me, where do you stop? Do you re-look at Deadball era pitchers? Do you give extra consideration to those whose careers suffered from having to go to war? Why not just close the entire HOF from future inductees, because players today have an unfair advantage compared to past players with all the advancement in technology and science that helps player perform at a higher level

Yes, I wish MLB never let steroids get out of control, and yes I will think less of any player who we know used them, but the HOF is just as much to look back at the history or baseball as it is to acknowledge the feats of past player, there is a reason that it houses a museum that chronicles the history of MLB as well as inductees