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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

James on McGwire via Maris

By Tangotiger, 01:47 PM

Love the article:

And in a Related Story By Bill James
Former New York Yankee outfielder Roger Maris has apologized in a televised interview, broadcast early Wednesday morning on HVEN TV, for using eight extra games and expansion pitching to break the single-season home run record of previous record holder Babe Ruth.  Maris was interviewed by…

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I responded to one of the commenters:

McGwire’s sole “sin” is that he puts the other players in a position to endanger their own health if they wanted to compete with him.  Those players committed a “sin” by not creating a workplace that had the controls in place to prevent the choice.  Basically, the players exposed themselves as selfish cowards for not doing what Rick Helling was telling them to do.

And the largest sin of all is that we have The Holy Writers wasting our time with their thoughts on the matter (James and Poz excluded).

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