The guy is a monster hitter. The jury is still out on how PED users will be handled regarding the HOF

roid aided, but Manny is unarguably one of the best hitters in the history of baseball.

I could care less what Manny does in his spare time. lol

…that his impressive statistics are forever tainted by being caught cheating three separate times? I agree, he was a lot of fun to watch, but he cheated! Just like Barry and Roger, we’ll never know what numbers he would have put up without the help of steroids. He’s a scam if you ask me.

It’s when other people don’t respect my opinion and begin mocking. That’s when I respond in the same way.

I’m not interested in his PED use.

that he didn’t apologize. People make mistakes. He regreted his actions like a decent human being. Yet somehow you can act like he didn’t really mean it?

So one could argue he’s the worst offender (CHEATER!) caught so far under today’s testing standards. IMO, there’s NO way he goes to the HOF.

so his 5 game pro-rated salary is $61,726 and change. Not too bad lol

I took your first comment to mean that you didn’t feel that the PEDs aided his performance. I think what you’re saying is that it’s irrelevant whether they did or not. Regardless, it wouldn’t change that those players hit those HR’s and those games were won or lost.

I’m not willing to say it’s irrelevant, but I do think that the steroids era has to be looked at knowing that steroids were a part of the game. We shouldn’t, however, necessarily just skip over that period.

What I find difficult from my end is that now the “steroid” question is being applied unevenly. Listening to the national voices, it seems that Bonds could possibly still be an HoFer because he was the best of that era, but Sosa is excluded, even though Sosa could be argued that he was second best. For some reason, Pudge Rodriquez is given a total exemption on this all. Furthermore, it seems that the general discussion is picking those players that they believe were clean (Thomas, Thome) without any shred of proof to verify this and condemning others with the supposition that they were users. It’s completely uneven and I don’t think it’s fair.

There seems to be some evidence that PED usage makes one increasingly stupid with ongoing use. See Bonds, McGuire, Clemens, Palmeiro and now Ramirez. Not too many sound or smart decisions being made by any of them in the last while.