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No thanks.Quote:
In retrospect, banning every user and using replacement players for a couple years seems like a better idea than just simply letting it happen.
I second thatQuote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
it would be interesting to see how many homers Ryan Howard, Adam Dunn, Jim Thome, etc could hit against replacement quality pitchers though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
I'm completely lost. How the hell would banning every user result in this:
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Alex Rodriguez would have come along and delivered a Hall of Fame career anyway. The Cooperstown careers of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds would be intact. Ken Caminiti and Steve Bechler might still be alive.
I was gonna mention that, but the whole paragraph was confusing so I just passed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
he is saying if roids had been caught and dealt with earlier, Bonds, Roger, A Rod would have never used and they would have still had HOF careers anyway with out any doubts about their numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
I don't think that logic is necessarily true (that they wouldn't have used).
I guess he is going along with the theory that Bonds did it out of jealousy over Sosa and McGuire and that A Rod felt pressure to live up to his pay? I agree that reasoning is dubious at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
I don't see how starting penalties earlier would've stopped those situations from happening. The players would've just tried harder to get undetectable stuff and been more secretive about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wassit3
or it would have most likely evolved the drugs to even better less detectable drugs, which is probably what has happened now. ..:(Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM