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Robright, so we'll take away all of Roger Clemens' strikeouts, and for all those batters that struck out against him we'll take away those strikeouts so the ABs never happened, which'll raise their batting averages. And all of Bond's HRs, we'll take those away and go back into history and make those outs instead, so the pitchers never threw the HR balls. And we'll do this for all the players on the Mitchell Report, right?
And since Whitey Ford and Don Sutton and Gaylord Perry (just to name a few) all cheated to enhance their careers, we'll take all of their stats away too!!!! And don't forget - Sosa with the corked bat, and Kenny Rogers with the "clump of dirt".
Look, all this talk of banning these players is just dumb. Just because a player's name is on a receipt from 5 years ago for a drug that wasn't illegal at the time, we don't ban him. If the guy tests positive for a drug test, THEN you ban him. Obviously MLB and the Players Association (union, whatever) doesn't care about it very much, otherwise they'd have MANDATORY testing. They can only blame themselves, as only they can police themselves. They chose to look the other way, so you can't penalize them as an afterthought.
Rob
