I hope Alex Rodriguez didn't cheat. If we do find out that he cheated, I will wish that he hadn't....

I hope Alex Rodriguez didn't cheat. If we do find out that he cheated, I will wish that he hadn't. But whatever happens, I'm not going to change my opinion that he's a great baseball player. Like many of the greatest players, he'll do whatever it takes to be the best player he can be. For a stretch of five or 10 years -- and yes, perhaps even today still -- being the best player could have meant cheating. Maybe the cheaters were wrong; that's the direction in which I lean, probably because I've got a streak of the moralist in me. But I will not sit idly while great athletes looking for an edge -- not all that different from the many generations before them -- are demonized by the high priests of baseball opinion. I will not.

Rob Neyer on A-Rod

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The golden rule of baseball

has always been, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying hard enough to win”.

Get off my lawn.

by DJCahill on Feb 8, 2009 4:56 PM CST reply actions

Neyer

I applaud his stance. I’m assuming that he voted McGwire for the HoF. If so, good for him, if not, that would seem inconsistent.

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by tricer on Feb 8, 2009 6:56 PM CST reply actions

He won't have a vote for 10 years.

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by philkid3 on Feb 8, 2009 7:50 PM CST up reply actions

Not a hypocrite

Unlike many a baseball writer who knew exactly what was going on and chose not to say anything about it. Now that the truth is out, they sit on their high horse and judge.

It really burns me that these guys vote on who gets into the Hall. Now they want to dismiss just about everyone who played in this era – yet they can’t define when it actually started – and if they really think it’s over, they are as naive as they are stupid.

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by Ted Price on Feb 8, 2009 8:19 PM CST reply actions

yep

its one of my biggest pet peeves and i’ll probably always be pissed off about the way the national media vilified baseball and anyone within a ten feet poll of steriods… Seriously, they were doing what so many others were doing, there are probably hundreds of other baseball players and countless athletes in other sports who are glorified for being a professional athlete yet they also took steriods but no one knows about it. Come on, this is like the Salem Witch hunt or the Spanish Inquisition, it just seems like that form of naivete reciprocated in a national blitz on anyone who used steriods even if it was once and for some injury. Bye, bye HoF, if they’re not gonna vote anyone associated with steriods into the HoF then they probably should just not vote anyone who started playing in the Majors after 1980 up til now.

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by blalock84 on Feb 9, 2009 1:06 AM CST up reply actions