tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812670776373470303.post8323107790857941252..comments2024-03-11T15:46:13.155-04:00Comments on In The Arena: Ruminations About Competition: Cabrera's Website is as Fake as His Artificially Enhanced BodyDavid Friedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08444347475303187373noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812670776373470303.post-42266514871672455302012-08-20T17:05:33.250-04:002012-08-20T17:05:33.250-04:00Marcel:
I could not disagree more vehemently. I d...Marcel:<br /><br />I could not disagree more vehemently. I don't think that cheating is "cool" and I don't buy the excuse that everybody was doing it. Should murderers not be arrested and convicted because some people have gotten away with murder? Laws exist for a reason and if they are not enforced then chaos and anarchy ensue. I am not equating PED use with murder, of course, but the point is that society has to be governed by rules or else anything goes.<br /><br />I cannot imagine what "advantage" you think that Ruth and Mays had that is equivalent to taking drugs that have been outlawed by the federal government and banned by responsible sports leagues around the world. <br /><br />My suspicion is that Griffey and Frank Thomas may have been the only clean elite sluggers of the past two decades (depending on how one defines elite). I hope that Pujols is clean but don't know enough about him to form an opinion one way or the other. As I have said in the past, if Thome is clean then he may be the greatest slugger ever because his home run numbers are right up there with all of the admitted and/or proven cheaters of the "Steroid Era" (in other words, I don't think that Thome is clean because I doubt that he was the lone clean slugger putting up those kinds of numbers). <br /><br />Griffey and Thomas had consistent production curves and stable (though vastly different) body types, so I believe that they were clean.David Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444347475303187373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812670776373470303.post-28648778061848393192012-08-20T16:46:09.433-04:002012-08-20T16:46:09.433-04:00
marcel
they should let ped run rampant in ml...<br /><br /><br /><br />marcel<br /><br /><br />they should let ped run rampant in mlb everyone gon cheat. babe ruth and willie mays probably had advantage in they day. bonds rod riquez sosa mcgwire ramirez cabera palmero bruan and many others cheated clemens pettite. the only legit sluggers are griffey and pujols and thome and they he probbly used so pujols and griffey AND BONDS who was top 15 all time steriods are not prob top 10 those three are the best hitters last twenty thirty years. it is cool tho david. there always gon be people cheatingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com