Woke up this morning. Picked up the paper outside the door to my hotel room and scanned the headlines. Had to laugh at the one about Sammy Sosa wanting to come back. Not that I’m glad he’s gone, it’s just he doesn’t register.
All he could do—and there’s no guessing why—was hit home runs with that self-promoting bunny hop out of the box. Both the Yankees and Mets had their chance at him and were lucky it didn’t happen. Let him stay away and fade from our memories.
A Hall of Famer? He has 500 homers, but are they real homers? Tend to doubt it. Going, going, gone … let him stay away.
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John, don’t tell me that you’re implying just because he was actually caught with a corked bat and was implicated in all the steroid talk that you think he might have. . .. cheated!
Speaking of—where do you fall on the Pete Rose argument? Is what he did any worse than what Sosa, Bonds, McGwire et al did? All have destroyed the integrity of the game at this point . . .
P.S. How great an acquisition has Endy Chavez been for this team? A double in the 10th to win the game.
Ray …
My thinking is Rose should be in the Hall of Fame based on what he accomplished as a player. I regard the Hall in part as a baseball history museum, so how can you keep out the player with the most hits in history?
HOWEVER, his plaque should note that he was banned from baseball for gambling on the sport. McGwire, Bonds, et al., should have steroids on their plaque.
Both gambling and steroids are part of the dark side of baseball’s history and it should be noted as such.
john, no offense, but while rose self-implicated himself, bonds, mcgwire and sosa have not been implicated in anything (yet). if you’re going to acuse them on a plaque, you might as well take all the other members out of the hall for using performance-enhancing supplements (like vitamins, polio shots and other medicines not available prior to 1970). Gaylord Perry is in the hall, right, the spitter-king himself? I’m no fan of the steroids era but you have to recognize that, steroids or not, what these guys did statistically was pretty impressive. I agree with you though, Rose should be in, and it should note his banishment. I think that he’ll go in posthumously though, hopefully with Shoeless Joe.
Bonds admitted using steroids, but said he didn’t know it at the time. So, he implicated himself. You’re right about McGwire and Sosa, they are only guilty by implication.
Would like to see Shoeless Joe go in … he was accused and the court system found him not guilty.