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Originally Posted by Runscott
I think that if he gets in, it tells us a lot about how the voters feel about the entire PED thing;i.e-"NO" to the liars, "YES" to those who come clean QUICKLY. On the other hand, maybe it opens a door for guys like Palmeiro who were passive liars, unlike Clemens, Rodriguez,etc.
It will be interesting to see how this situation plays out, but we won't know for years.
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What do you consider coming clean quickly, because I think people seem to forget what Pettitte actually did. He admitted to using it once the Mitchell report came out and said he never used it any other time than 2002 for an elbow injury.
Then two months later it was announced that in an affidavit he said he also did it in 2004, which is contrary to what he said earlier. That to me isn't coming clean, it's admitting to what was out there and hoping nothing else came out.
That makes me not believe that he only did it twice, maybe he did, but how does anyone know when he lied about it.
No way he makes it. A borderline candidate won't get in with a checkered past.
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