Cheating Is Time Honored in Baseball

Cheating is time honored in baseball.

I used to love the game of baseball but I fell out of love when my league baseball days ended and I got cut from the high school baseball team.

I remember that Gaylord Perry used to throw serious spit balls and I know that everyone knew it, yet he is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

If you see old pictures of Barry Bonds and see what he looks like now, there can't be any question that he used something to help build his body.

Now we have the flair up of Bonds on steroids again and I have to say that it bores me.

If baseball were so concerned, they would have nailed Mark McGuire when he was stroking them out of the baseball parks.

Anyway, ESPN Page 2 lists some baseball cheaters.

Comments

[Jack Marshall]

You don't remember very well. Every time they caught Perry throwing a spitball, the umpires threw him out of the game. Most observers believe that Perry over-hyped his use of the pitch to confuse batters. And Perry is beside the point: in a sport that pitches itself to kids, using injected drugs to cheat is infinitely more serious that whatever Perry did. Most of the steroids attributed to Bonds are illegal, whether thay were specifically banned by MLB or not. Arguing that Bonds should get away with doping because MLB was negligent about McGwire is the height of rationalization...do you advocate that all wife-killers should go free because O.J. lucked out? If McGwire were playing now, he'd be under the same scruitiny as Bonds. His record is tainted, and I doubt that he'll going into the Hall of Fame. But at least he's not still compounding his dishonesty by playing and lying, as Bonds is.

[DarkStar]

You don't remember very well. Every time they caught Perry throwing a spitball, the umpires threw him out of the game.

True, but he still made it to the Hall of Fame. And even if he said he did it to play mental games, he was still caught enough times to warrant not being in the Hall of Fame.

I will make this clear. I'm not defending Bonds, I just find the fuss to be a bit much.

My mention of McGuire was to point out that baseball turned a blind eye when it was good for the game, as it was while McGuire was crushing the balls out of the park. And, during the time it was happening, McGuire stated his strength came from honest conditioning not steroids.

And the O.J. reference was a lame analogy.

[Blogophile]

Hi,

Just wanted to let you know I linked to your blog in my column today. Thanks!

If you want to take a look, here's the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/14/blogophile/main1398066.shtml

Happy blogging,

Melissa