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Stinky The Clown

(67,790 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:48 AM Jan 2013

Baseball Hall of Fame Voting results in a no hitter (a post about juicing, not baseball)

So they had the annual voting for the Hall of Fame. Some guys with big numbers didn't get enough votes to join the ranks of baseball's greats.

Because they're fucking cheaters.

Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa.

Juicers all.

I hope they never get in.

I hope the Hall establishes a display for them: "Losers who cheated and didn't get in."

Maybe they can have lunch with Lance Armstrong.

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Baseball Hall of Fame Voting results in a no hitter (a post about juicing, not baseball) (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Horse with no Name Jan 2013 #1
You're absolutely right . . . about all of them. Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #4
GOOD Berserker Jan 2013 #2
Hear, hear! Lugnut Jan 2013 #3

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Stinky The Clown

(67,790 posts)
4. You're absolutely right . . . about all of them.
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 08:45 AM
Jan 2013

They all had the tools. Only Sosa, I think, was significantly improved by juicing. The others got . . . . what? . . . an extra home run a month? A few extra strikeouts?

McGwire is a mountain of a man. All that juice in the world wasn't going to let him see the ball any better. He got good number because he had good tools. Same with Bonds. Why did the bother? Was it worth what they now face? De facto banishment. Don't get me wrong. Cheaters deserve to be found out and treated like losers. But look at what could have been.

Armstrong is in a class of his own. Even without the juice he was a great cyclist. Many Italians saw him as better than Pantani. Many Frech saw him as better than Hinault, even though he won five Tours, presumably unjuiced. Armstrong may well have been "the greatest" without juice. But now he's lost it all.The price of cheating. I'm okay with that.

 

Berserker

(3,419 posts)
2. GOOD
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:55 AM
Jan 2013

They do not deserve to be one of the greats. Bonds should be jerked off the all time HR list NOW.

Records should read:
Hank Aaron #1 755
Babe Ruth #2 714
Willie Mays #3 660

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