rod, should he keep his records after steroids?
Should he keep his records? No. Will he, probably. We can just never know for sure how much steroids inflated his stats. Also, a lot of the pitchers he hit off of over the years were on steroids too. A-Rod had 40 plus homer power to begin with, he may have very well hit 800 homers anyway, but the steroids completely taint his records. There is just no accurate way to find who was and who wasn’t on PEDs. The Mitchell Report was garbage. It named some players (mostly Yankees, which was unfair), but left out a lot of players who are suspected of taking steroids/ HGH, like Sammy Sosa, Ivan Rodriguez, and Brett Boone. There are a lot of guys out there who have never been caught, nor will they. I think the rest of the 103 players should be revealed, but for legal issues, we may never know. In a way, A-Rod got what he deserved, but it’s unfair considering hundreds of other guys, at least, were juicing. There are many players out there saying “I’m lucky I never got caught”. Oh, and people like
You just can’t take one person’s stats away. If you did, you would have to take everyone’s and that is the problem with the whole, STAT, debate. A-Rod really doesn’t have any records anyway, but I know what you mean. I don’t think any stats should be taken away. Should we inflate stats for the players in the “Dead Ball Era?” No, so we shouldn’t do anything with what has happened. Let’s just focus on what is to come… I also have a problem with suggesting Bonds should have his stats stricken as well as any other player whom hasn’t admitted to using. We can speculate all we want, but in the end where is the hard evidence? And hitting 73 HR in a season isn’t hard evidence. I’d like to burn the other 103 names… (take a quick peak, then burn’em) Ron, You’re being irrational. You’re letting emotions get in the way of Intelligent thought. How can you remove the stats? We would have to calculate how many more HR A-Rod hit under the influence of PED’s. After looking at his stats from 2001 –
