Pandora's box...
A lot has happened since I created the first post below. (As I mentioned, being new to blogging I lost the first post... which is why the date is the same as today's post.)
MLB has decided that it is going to investigate the use of steroids in baseball's past. Bud Selig chose the easy way out. With the greatest record in sport on the ropes he chose to look back in history to see what he might see. Investigate? What are they going to investigate that they couldn't discover in spending a few hours reading "Game of Shadows" and checking a few sources? Then what do they do? Are they going to go back and rewrite history? Are they going to make Bonds's 73 home runs disappear? How about McGuire's 70? Or Sosa's 66? They can't. They are already in the books. (Only this morning it came out that a grand jury is going to look into whether or not Bonds lied under oath. How bad is it that an arm of government not known for expeditiousness can act more quickly than baseball? Pathetic!)
There is really no way to rewrite history. It simply can't be done. Where do you stop? Juiced pitchers? Corked bats? Segregation? Pine tar? Trying to rewrite history would open some Orwellian Pandora's box that would do nothing but cause confusion and chaos and fundamentally diminish baseball.
Give Bonds his 73 HR season. But don't let him eclipse Babe and Hank. My solution is far from perfect but one has to start somewhere. The worst thing would be for baseball to stand by and watch 714 & 755 fall and only later discover to their amazement that Mr. Bonds had indeed used something stronger than milk to enhance his numbers. What would they do then?
(Visit www.helpsavebaseball.com for shirts and e-mail links to MLB)
MLB has decided that it is going to investigate the use of steroids in baseball's past. Bud Selig chose the easy way out. With the greatest record in sport on the ropes he chose to look back in history to see what he might see. Investigate? What are they going to investigate that they couldn't discover in spending a few hours reading "Game of Shadows" and checking a few sources? Then what do they do? Are they going to go back and rewrite history? Are they going to make Bonds's 73 home runs disappear? How about McGuire's 70? Or Sosa's 66? They can't. They are already in the books. (Only this morning it came out that a grand jury is going to look into whether or not Bonds lied under oath. How bad is it that an arm of government not known for expeditiousness can act more quickly than baseball? Pathetic!)
There is really no way to rewrite history. It simply can't be done. Where do you stop? Juiced pitchers? Corked bats? Segregation? Pine tar? Trying to rewrite history would open some Orwellian Pandora's box that would do nothing but cause confusion and chaos and fundamentally diminish baseball.
Give Bonds his 73 HR season. But don't let him eclipse Babe and Hank. My solution is far from perfect but one has to start somewhere. The worst thing would be for baseball to stand by and watch 714 & 755 fall and only later discover to their amazement that Mr. Bonds had indeed used something stronger than milk to enhance his numbers. What would they do then?
(Visit www.helpsavebaseball.com for shirts and e-mail links to MLB)
posted by Help Save Baseball at 3:12 AM
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