Sunday, July 19, 2015

What if Pedro's right?

According to Pedro Martinez's estimate, 60 percent of Major League Baseball players were using performance-enhancing drugs during his career.

I have no idea if he's right, but let's say he is. Instead of focusing on how great he was to have been so dominant during the Steroid Era, consider that if 60 percent of players were juicing, we know only a fraction of them (and only really care about the ones that trigger the selective outrage machine: A-Rod, Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, McGwire, etc.) ... which means the odds are good that some juicers will end up with Pedro in the Hall of Fame.

That's bad news for the keep-the-cheats-out crowd, unless they want to argue that everyone already in the Hall from that era was clean and that no one else should be inducted ... you know, just to be sure.

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