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View Poll Results: Should the cheaters be banished? | |||
oh, yes | 28 | 68.29% | |
nah, it's only baseball | 5 | 12.20% | |
what's this going to prove? | 8 | 19.51% | |
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Wind up the noise makers of summer and start the "games". I don't really care who wins as long as they do their summer dances and charades. Its quite a money making ballet that is presented to us each spring with every team predicting huge improvements and vast amounts of money flying around (The minimum salary for the player you never even heard of, is about $500,000/yr).
Its "Entertainment" folks! Sit back and enjoy it and know it doesn't really matter who wins. Fog |
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That was not a negative directed at you....it was about the topic.
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IIRC he is already suing to be reinstated so that he can be in the Hall of Fame. In light of the widespread use of steroids, legalized sports gambling and now this debacle with the Astros I really can't see why he shouldn't be in the HOF because the entire MLB is tarnished as far as I'm concerned.
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This is why Pittsburgh fans are up in arms about boycotting the Pirates. The land PNC Park stands on was a land grab by the city who in turn handed it over to a team with a 20 year streak of losing and sold the naming rights to a bank that was similarly buying up real estate across the river for its own monuments. The only positive is that before when you went to North Shore it was filled with nuisance bars and strip clubs, now you get free bobbleheads and fireworks and the occasional concert after enduring what is essentially minor league baseball. By rights, the Pirates should be a publicly owned organization.
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If anything they want them to succeed. They already made "adjustments" by transferring them not only out of a competitive division (where they were consistently competing with the Chicago Cubs for last place and being humiliated by "smaller market" teams) but out of the NL altogether. IMO the owner should go. Didn't MLB force the owner of the Dodgers to divest of the team back in 2011? As for the players, while they can't be censured their trade value will certainly take a hit after this.
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Pete Rose is banned for life. Should have been banned just for bunting to break Joe DiMaggio hit streak record, alone. Plus Hammering Hank said he is banned for life.
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I think it's sad that some little league teams named the Astros have to change their name now.
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As a long time time golfer and fan I find his behavior repugnant. He continues to cheat even when caught. Finally, he won’t acknowledge that he’s cheated....he is well on his way to being totally and widely ostracized by his fellow competitors. He should be banned by the PGA and his Tour card taken away. No room for cheaters in this sport, whether it’s at a tour event or with the guys I play with on Saturday morning. And there are two guys that were a part of our regular group that can’t get a game because they are known cheats. Rant over..... |
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Hmmmmmm.....
It's so strange....as a kid I played on 2/3 teams at a time during the season...this stuff never came into play-well, it was the 50's
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Call me a cynic, but I believe (sadly) that leagues where cheating and steroid abuse were encouraged and rewarded would become even more popular and commercially successful than ALL of the so-called legit sports are already. People love to be entertained and humble heroes are rare.
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Yeah, about that "money thing",imagine being in your 20's, bullet-proof, knocking down $10,000/week with room and board taken care of. Been shooting for this for about 10 years (Since 16yrs.) and ain't too worried about my "career". Will do the college thing my parents have been bugging me about later and I'll have the money to do that too. Yup, $500,000/year minimum is okay by me.
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Cheating has gone on in MLB since forever.
It’s no longer anything more than entertainment to me and even not much of that. I’ve lost my zest for professional sports in general and my fanaticism has turned into mostly apathy. Yes, the outrageous money has ruined it, but maybe not in the way you think. It’s the betting money that is the elephant in the room. JMO.
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