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Sioux_Yeah_Yeah
03-29-2005, 06:33 PM
This should show up on the late night shows:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2024427

ND Legislature wants Maris' record to be reinstated because of steroid use.
What an embarrassment that our state legislature wants this because it would be "big" for our state.

bisonranch
03-29-2005, 06:41 PM
Obviously there's people on steroids in baseball, but what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

This is embarassing and typical of some of the closed minded people elected to run ND.

IowaBison
03-29-2005, 06:53 PM
I don't see why it's funny.

Pretty sure that those folks are going to get double asterisks by there names.

Sioux_Yeah_Yeah
03-29-2005, 06:57 PM
They are not going to go back and change the record book! So are they going to take away those wins from the "Steel Curtain" now because of those allegations?
Baseball will move on and hope that no-one (big name that is, let a little guy get caught to prove it is working) is caught using steroids. Let Bonds retire and get out of the limelight and keep all records in tact. Way too much invested to go back and erase the record book.

IowaBison
03-29-2005, 07:11 PM
i bet you dollars to donuts there is some 'adjustment' made to the record books

it might be a commentary/asterisk, but there will be something

Sioux_Yeah_Yeah
03-29-2005, 07:13 PM
I would be very surprised, and I'll take two Maple long johns please

IowaBison
03-29-2005, 07:22 PM
do you want nuts or not?

i'll buy them and leave them on my radiator until a decision is made.

Sioux_Yeah_Yeah
03-29-2005, 07:31 PM
haha, no please hold the nuts and the filling, and please turn the radiator down as it will be a while until any decisions are made. In the meantime, I will hld myself over with some old donut holes.

BisonCountry
03-29-2005, 08:28 PM
Here is a good article from ESPN mentioning the silliness of adding astericks to records:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=2023757

sambini
03-30-2005, 03:15 AM
IT JUST PROVES HOW GOOD APLAYER ROGER WAS.

Bison_Dan
03-30-2005, 01:59 PM
IT JUST PROVES HOW GOOD APLAYER ROGER WAS.

He did it right - no juice, no juiced up balls, no cork in the bats.

Rodentia
03-30-2005, 03:08 PM
Perhaps as a compromise, Roger Maris should be put into the Hall of Fame. If Mantle were the one who hit 61, there never would have been an asterisk by his name for all those years.

Sioux_Yeah_Yeah
03-30-2005, 03:12 PM
Mantle also had more good years then Maris

BisonCountry
03-30-2005, 03:14 PM
Perhaps as a compromise, Roger Maris should be put into the Hall of Fame. *If Mantle were the one who hit 61, there never would have been an asterisk by his name for all those years.

I agree with you 100% I thought this was an interesting point in the article:

Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961 were given separate listing below Babe Ruth's 60 to denote how the season had just been lengthened by eight games. (Strangely, when Sandy Koufax broke the National League record with 269 strikeouts, two more than Christy Mathewson, no one really worried about it.)

Billy Crystal's movie 61* I thought did a good job of showing how mistreated Maris was by the New York media, and made me respect what Maris did that much more.