I Was Thinking: There Are a Growing Number of [Derived Headline]

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I was thinking: There are a growing number of baseball fans and pundits who will consider Albert Pujols the all-time single season home run king if he gets to 62 this year. I think that's a flawed judgment based on disdain for those who used steroids. The disdain I get. What I don't get is the arbitrary decision to alter what took place on the field. And this has nothing to do with whether Pujols ever used steroids.

You simply can't put the steroid genie back in the bottle. Barry Bonds (73 homers in 2001) used steroids and it's duly noted for posterity. Sammy Sosa (66 in 1998 and 64 in 2001) used steroids and it's duly noted. Mark McGwire (70 in 1998) presumably used steroids, but he never tested positive, nor has there been conclusive evidence -- other than his squeamish cop-out in front of Congress. Can we arbitrarily chuck his 1998 season home run total based on reasonable suspicion? And which baseball god gets to make that value judgment?

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I Was Thinking: There Are a Growing Number of [Derived Headline]

If you play around with the home run numbers, you have to play around with every other statistic as well. Singles, doubles, triples, career average, career slugging percentage, etc. In turn, games and seasons were affected. It's all skewed by steroids, and there's ...

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