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Originally Posted by thaskalos
I can understand a baseball player who resorts to juicing because he is trying to keep his job in the game...but I can't see why a player, who has already reached Hall-Of-Fame status while "clean", would need to start juicing. Why did Bonds need to juice...so he could hit the ball 500 feet instead of 450? IMO...there should be no distinction made for the "pre-juice" accomplishments of a player. Either keep ALL the juicers out of the Hall...or let them all in.
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My two cents worth... Bonds, it was said, was very jealous of McGwire and Sammy sooser during the 1998 HR race. Bonds was worlds better than those two guys yet he felt he was being ignored. Thus, he juiced
Roger.... Think of sandy Koufax in his farewell to baseball speech in 66. He was taking cortisone shots left and right to ease the pain just to get to the next start. I don't approve, but I can see why pitchers would try to juice if they thought it would ease the pain.... Now that I'm older I see the nonsense in it, but pitchers live start to start.
What roger did was wrong. Plain and simple. But he was as good as any SP I ever saw before juicing. I just can't deny his greatness, or his embarrassing on field behavior at times.
We teach our kids in chess classes not to cheat.... Only desperate, less than competent players cheat, we preach and preach. If only society was as acceptable of the advise....
