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MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

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dxmnkd316 said:
I mean, he’s not necessarily wrong. I wouldn’t mind kicking all of the drug users out if it meant keeping the HOF clean.
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But up to a certain point in time, they were not against baseball rules to use them.

Take the Olympics for instance and how drugs come and go from the banned list. Take that drug that Sherapova got banned in tennis for. Before 2017, it was perfectly legal. Then, it wasn't. Had she stopped using it when she should have, she would have been fine. So, are you saying all of the records of all the tennis players and Olympians who used that drug prior to 2017 should be wiped off the books?

Of course not. It's either legal or not. And if it's legal, players will use it. And they are not wrong in doing so. And you can bet your house there were players using steroids for decades until the press and fans caught up to the fact. After all, they were known by the Olympic movement for decades. Don't think other sports didn't know about them long before they eventually banned them.
 
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Hyperbolic but it’s not specifically against the rules to shoot a guy but Aaron Hernandez did it anyways.

When something is illegal to do in general, there shouldn’t need to be a specific rule to prevent it.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Hyperbolic but it’s not specifically against the rules to shoot a guy but Aaron Hernandez did it anyways.

When something is illegal to do in general, there shouldn’t need to be a specific rule to prevent it.
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But, some of those things weren't illegal, even by law.

Not all enhancement drugs are illegal to use.
 
Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

dxmnkd316 said:
Hyperbolic but it’s not specifically against the rules to shoot a guy but Aaron Hernandez did it anyways.

When something is illegal to do in general, there shouldn’t need to be a specific rule to prevent it.
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Players' unions' contracts. IIRC, an NBA guy got busted at the border with Molly or something, which obviously is illegal overall, but it was NOT on the "banned" list in the union contract, so the NBA couldn't really punish him. Some of these things also simply fall under "image" or "general conduct" rules, with limits on punishments (see: the NFL).
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Hyperbolic but it’s not specifically against the rules to shoot a guy but Aaron Hernandez did it anyways.

When something is illegal to do in general, there shouldn’t need to be a specific rule to prevent it.
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You can get steroids legally from a doctor.

And that drug Sherapova was taking was taken within completely legal means. She had a legal prescription for it.

And how about the blood doping stuff a lot of cyclists were doing? Where they take a pint of blood out of you, oxygenate it, and put it back into you. It's your own blood. Oxygen is not a drug. So, what's illegal about that? But guess what, that procedure was banned under performance enhancing reasons.

Your point is voided.
 
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Yeah, but if you get steroids from a doctor, you usually would need a therapeutic waiver from the body that governs your sport. And just because some jagoff managed to work his way through university of phoenix’s Nick Riviera Medical School doesn’t make it right.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, but if you get steroids from a doctor, you usually would need a therapeutic waiver from the body that governs your sport. And just because some jagoff managed to work his way through university of phoenix’s Nick Riviera Medical School doesn’t make it right.
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"If I kill you, you don't pay."
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, but if you get steroids from a doctor, you usually would need a therapeutic waiver from the body that governs your sport. And just because some jagoff managed to work his way through university of phoenix’s Nick Riviera Medical School doesn’t make it right.
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You still haven't addressed my points.

Should all of Sharapova's records be wiped out?

Blood doping is perfectly legal and doesn't even use steroids. Why should the Olympics not allow it?

There were plenty of lawful means players could have used to enhance themselves before baseball outlawed it. You keep insisting on avoiding that point.
 
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Yankees reportedly set to name Aaron Boone manager.

1. Clearly trying to craft a team full of Aaron's.
2. Not sure how I feel about it. No managerial experience, but obviously knowledgeable about the game, knows what being in NYC is like.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Yankees reportedly set to name Aaron Boone manager.

1. Clearly trying to craft a team full of Aaron's.
2. Not sure how I feel about it. No managerial experience, but obviously knowledgeable about the game, knows what being in NYC is like.
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"So who would win a race, Mario Andretti or a bus full of [Aaron Boones]?"
 
Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

hockeyplayer1015 said:
Yankees reportedly set to name Aaron Boone manager.

1. Clearly trying to craft a team full of Aaron's.
2. Not sure how I feel about it. No managerial experience, but obviously knowledgeable about the game, knows what being in NYC is like.
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I was really hoping for Mike Francesa.

Maybe he'll get the Giants' gig instead.
 
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Apparently Raffy Palmeiro wants to make a comeback.

At 53.

This oughta be good.
 
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I believe it was mentioned, if he plays a single game, hes eligible for the hall of fame.

Maybe thats his ploy.
 
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Ohtani picks the Angels.

I thought it would be the Dodgers or the Mariners.
 
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