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True Dough

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1. I'm okay with it

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2017, 04:06 PM

Dec 2017

But I think there should be an asterisk next to their name in the shrine, something making it clear that the player was found to have taken performance enhancing drugs. Their legacy is tainted and should be remembered as such. That said, drug users put up some of the best stats in baseball history and there's no way of knowing exactly how much the drug use accounted for those totals -- an extra 10%, 20%, more?

So it's best to acknowledge their accomplishments but also recognize that they were known cheats, IMO.

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What say you? Do PED abusers get into the HOF? [View all] kairos12 Dec 2017 OP

I'm okay with it True Dough Dec 2017 #1

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