“And speaking of Perry, funny how writers won’t vote for Mark McGwire despite no actual proof he took steroids (which were not specifically banned by baseball at the time) but didn’t have a problem voting in Perry despite his own admittance to cheating by throwing the spitter (which was banned four decades before Perry reached the majors). Perhaps writers should make it clear just which forms of cheating warrant inclusion in the Hall of Fame and which warrant exclusion, ridicule, dishonor and sanctimonious moralizing.”

Here is the link for the article.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/080729&sportCat=mlb

I know it is bit off topic, but I did not see a place for e-mail.

Well said my man.

bringing fans back to baseball?

making the game fun?

building a new park in sf?

these players have nothing to be sorry for

but i shall never forgive the owners and gms for being snivling, lying cowards

shades of the black sox scandal, which was more about the thieving owners than it was about some dumb ballplayers trying to fix a series

and i shall never forgive the high and mighty press for playing along until it behooved them to attack the guys that they told us all to love.

and fuck that midget on hbo

someday i will meet costas and sit on him

— played 139, 27, 47, 104, those were the years that he was playing with broken arches in his feet and Mark has also had back problems as well as the divorce and child custody between 95-96. In 1997 , I remember reading in the paper that Mark was wearing a new type of contact lens that was a yellow tint that helped pick up the shadow of the ball better, a tool that many players use today. To come to the conclusion that you did : Mark played a scat amount of games for a few years then 150 etc, thus means he used, carless and presumptuous. This logic means then he “used” from 1986-1990, stoped, then “used” again in 1998 because he played 150 games. — Whatever