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They all get an asterisk then. Performance enhancing drugs have been used from the beginning.

Greenies don't help you hit Home Runs

They definitely help you get up for the game. Cocaine does too. Besides, steroids alone don't help anyone hit home runs.

Greenies don't help you hit Home Runs

I actually like Bob Costas's take on this.

Bonds is the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen and it’s not all that close.

Agreed. If a less talented steroid user like David Ortiz can get in, Bonds should have been voted it. The primary difference is Ortiz plays a cartoon character for the media.

This?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6tdltvikRo

No, it had to do with hitting.

What did he say?

Bonds is the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen and it’s not all that close.

I agree. But Rickey Henderson was the purest baseball joy. And it not all that close.

Right!!! the stories of greenies being out there like a Pez dispenser are incredible.

There isn't a sport around where guys aren't coloring outside the lines to gain an edge. Excluding the unfriendly steroid guys from the HoF or putting an asterisk next to their records is bullshit. This was nothing more than a hit job by older writers and baseball guys who were upset their sacred childhood records were being destroyed by modern coloring outside the lines.

There isn't a sport around where guys aren't coloring outside the lines to gain an edge. Excluding the unfriendly steroid guys from the HoF or putting an asterisk next to their records is bullshit. This was nothing more than a hit job by older writers and baseball guys who were upset their sacred childhood records were being destroyed by modern coloring outside the lines.

we don't see color here

...which may explain why records attained during the segregation era are revered but records attained during the steroid era are not.

...which may explain why records attained during the segregation era are revered but records attained during the steroid era are not.

I see that argument made all the time but it doesn't make sense. The talent pool was far deeper relatively during the segregation era simply because baseball and boxing were the only professional sports. And only the most deperate people wanted to get their brains beaten in.

Sure, 10% of the population was excluded from playing, but the athletes among the remaining 90% all played baseball. There may be a Babe Ruth out there today who is playing football or riding a skateboard. In 1930 those weren't options.

Anyway, regardless of steroids, MLB has sapped the importance of the records by fucking around with the baseballs. Like in last year's corn game when they used superballs. Are you really confident that Judge hasn't been getting served special rabbit balls during the last couple weeks? I don't know how you could be.