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Ol_Desperado 59 Reviews 12141 reads
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I suppose in general this is all about the controversy involving performance enhancement in all sports.  However, as most sports fans know, Manny Ramirez is preparing for his return to the Dodgers and if nothing else, he's provided a substantial economic windfall for our AAA team,  Yea, I'll admit, a couple weeks ago I and some friends went ahead and bought tickets for the game Thursday just as a speculation that he'd be here.  But I really consider him to be an a-hole, not only because of his use of drugs, but I just don't like his overall "mojo"!  

But good golly miss molly, it's an over the top Manny Mania Love Fest by the local media here!!

Call me "ol_school", but I'm a purist and think it's just WRONG, as well as stupid, to be using these performance enhancing drugs.  

Oh, and NO, I don't use viagra!!  LOL  ..but I also don't object to appearance enhanced titties!! :)  So call me a hypocrit!

Player to be named later10025 reads

What he did was wrong. But he was one of many and he has paid his dues by the rules of MLB and the Players Union.

He is one of 25 players in the 500 hr club and a future hall of famer. He will draw attention anywhere he goes, especially in the minors.

Love him or hate him, he sells tickets.

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CYNIC8636 reads

a great baseball player.  I'm just wondering if this steroid incident will have any impact on his HOF status when the time comes.

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CubbieFan29497 reads

Hi,
Which will be never!!!! Mark Mcguire received only 23% of the  75%   votes required to be elected to the HOF, this year!!!! This doesn't bode well for future votes for Mac & the other clowns who cheated to get ahead!!!! This Is a good thing!!! It's telling the youth that you will not be honored for cheating!!!

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Ol_Desperado8587 reads

Sammy Sosa won't get in, Mark McQuire won't get in, Roger Clemens won't get in....get the trend?  The HOF isn't a "popular vote" club.  How can the sportswriters deny Pete Rose for gambling and then admit these performance enhanced cheaters in?  

Who knows, maybe the end result will be a "wising up" of today's youth.

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rktect711484 reads

The sportswiters deny Pete Rose (as you state) because of his being on the "ineligible" list.  (I am curious to know with what percentage of the vote "Charlie Hustle" would be instated if he were not on this list ...)

Until rumored hints or actual verification of PED use becomes a criteria to determine ineligibility, these players who are currently under the microscope will indeed continue to come up for a vote year after year.  As with the case of Mark McGwire, the vote will act as a sort of referendum on how PED's are viewed in relation to HOF status.

In order to make a detemination if PED use is a cuase for HOF ineligibility, in my opinion, there needs to be extensive un-biased research conducted as to the REAL effects that PED use has within baseball.  "Come on, look at the guy ... he has to be!" arguments cannot and should not hold any water in this debate.

Does anyone know if there is, in fact, any concrete, substantiated, un-biased evidence as to the advantageous effects of PED's in baseball?

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