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Tom Tango and Gary Cohen are correct - fans just don't care about the PED "issue". A worthwhile read, especially for the 2nd to last paragraph.

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I don’t consider it cheating. Baseball fans put it somewhere in the corking/emery board category:

http://tangotiger.net/ethics/ethics_results.php

Basically, it’s an ejection if you are caught, otherwise do whatever you can do. That’s the feeling among fans.

It’s the players themselves that should care, because it sets up a moral issue for them, one that they really shouldn’t need to consider. Mike Schmidt bravely said that he would have taken steroids if they were popular in his era.

If MLB didn’t keep track of so many statistics, it would not be that big a deal either. It’s the "sanctity" of the records that gets the phony outrage in overdrive. No one who follows hockey would compare scoring in the 1920s to scoring in the 1980s without an enormous adjustment level. For some reason, MLB fans do the straight comparsion all the time.

by Eric Simon on Jul 8, 2009 5:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

manny is guilty until he pops out a baby

by samdaman on Jul 8, 2009 7:11 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Guilty of what?

If the answer is “using steroids”, then MLB agrees with you and has already doled out its punishment, which was subsequently served by Ramirez.

I don’t think anyone is arguing that Manny *didn’t* use steroids.

by Eric Simon on Jul 8, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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