Asterisks on Baseball Records

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by BrudLee

How 'bout this for a noodle-scratcher.

I submit that the greatest aid that players of the modern era have had to increase their hitting numbers is not steroids, but rather laser eye surgery.

Discuss. Or don't.

Hey ... It's legal and always has been.

[skinsfanthru&thru]

I don't know if the asterisk is the correct thing to do in this situation. I think if a player is found guilty and still makes it into the HOF, under their bust there should be an engravement of how the player used steroids. If possible I would love a vast majority of the hitting records the from the past couple years be tossed, but that ain't gonna happen. For me personally I have little reason to believe in many of today's pro baseball players and I personally will not recognize many of the recent records. There has always been various ways to cheat in baseball through the years, but actually taking substances to increase their strength and endurance is the worst imo. It just shows an absolute disrespect to those that came before them and actually worked for what they did, and rightfully earned their accolades.

[redrock-skins]

You can't go back and prove who did and who didn't use steroids and at exactly what time. Sure its easy to see McGwire or Sosa, but what about guys like Brady Anderson who hit 13, 12, and 16 in each of the three seasons before his 50 HR season(1996), then followed it up with 18 HRs and never hit more than 24 again. Do we asterisk that too, if we could actually prove he roids that year? How could we prove it anyway? There are other players like him too.