Sunday, January 8, 2012

Should there be an asterisk next to the 2004 and 2007 World Series?

Still bitter over these? Get over it. Selig's operating within the rules of the players' union, as well as the collective bargaining agreement. Everyone gets tested every year- how much more do you want to investigate? If you want to vacate every world series title that has ever been won by anyone who ever tested positive for anything, you're going to have to start stripping the Yankees of the 96, 98-2000, and 2009 titles, since Jose Canseco played for them, as did Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Andy Pettitte, A-Rod, and Roger Clemens, so even if a few of them weren't on any of the championship teams, the pattern of so many cheaters means the team should be punished somehow, doesn't it? Under the current collective bargaining agreement, the players serve suspensions immediately upon testing positive, which is a penalty to the team involved. If they still manage to win, as the Dodgers did in the first 50 games of 2009, good for them.

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