burgs« it was a great run | main | downtime »12.13.2007 mitchell report so the mitchell report came out today. any surprises? not really. read a great blog on the whole steroids thing on dodgersthoughts.com. great read, had to share it. "History is what happened, not what I wish it would be. New revelations might add or subtract from that history, might force me to alter my interpretations of events, but they don't erase what happened on the field, in the record books or, most of all, in my memories. The homers, the strikeouts, the visceral images in my mind – joy and pain – remain. The rewrite exists as a new chapter. And, the rewrite, as reliable as it might or might not be, is rarely the last chapter. Eliminating unfair advantages is a worthy if quixotic goal. Unfair advantages on the socio-economic level, putting aside the physical level, begin at birth, and multiply both with and without our intending them to. Pretending that unfair advantages don't exist or haven't existed throughout time is pointless. No asterisks. What happened, happened. We don't have to like it, but it happened. The game was what it was; life was what it was. We should always try to do better, but we can't do so by papering over the past." so said burgs @ 13:09 | guestbook | bookmark | board | comments: I agree to an extent with the quote that what happened happened. So, let whatever records were broken stand and give Bonds, Maguire, Clemens, etc their due because they did excel in our era of baseball. But, I'd put an asterisk* on the records broken just to indicate that they were done so in the steriod era so that no one forgets. Like the person said "History is what happened" and it should be recorded as such. And to add to that we should now move forward and fix what we can as Mitchell recommends in his report. I really believe it was everyone involved in MLB's fault from players, managers, owners, union, and commissioners fault. so said trigger, still a baseball fan. Go Padres! @ 12.14.07 14:44 post a comment |