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Mish highlighted what has to be the best comment ever posted anywhere (comment number 4):

Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be breached by men with bats.

I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Sosa and you curse Bonds. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Bonds', Sosa's and McGwire's usage, while tragic, probably saved the game. And the use of steroids, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saved the game. You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me to hit balls far over that wall. You need me to cross that wall.

We use words like honor, code, loyalty…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent playing the game. Hall of Fame voters use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to writers who write and profit from the entertainment I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather they just said thank you and went on their way.

Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a ball, get on the mound and stand opposed. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!

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February 4, 2013 at 4:29 pm

This is from that same thread (comment 53):

There’s the BBWAA of 1985, who weighed the differences between amps and no amps, and overwhelmingly picked amps. Then there’s the BBWAA of 2012, who looked at steroids and said this cannot stand. In between, there was the BBWAA of 1998, who vehemently attacked Steve Wilstein’s andro reporting, and wrote valentines to Big Mac’s musculature saving the game, because chicks dig the long ball. Before that, there was the BBWAA of 1988 and 1995 who, faced with brief public outbursts of anti-steroid feeling, looked at steroids and judged them uninteresting or irrelevant.

We rely on all of these BBWAAs to choose baseball’s “immortals” and shape its lasting legacy.

It’s too bad these four or five BBWAAs that existed within a quarter-century’s time didn’t write their sports columns for DC Comics. Julius Schwartz could have designated them as BBWAA-One, BBWAA-Two, BBWAA-Three, BBWAA-Prime, BBWAA-S, and so on.

DC Comics eventually streamlined their stupidly gnarled continuity into one coherent timeline– but then, explaining why the rings of different Green Lanterns would be variously powerless against wood or the color yellow is far more important to get straight

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