Thursday, July 30, 2009

Back to 1918?

If Manny and Big Papi indeed used performance-enhancing drugs (that they tested positive in 2003), as the NYT is reporting today, does this put an asterisk by the world series victories this decade? (There's a long running debate in the baseball world with how to deal with the records and statistics set in the steroid era, and books could be written on the subject, if they haven't already).

But anyhow, if you subscribe to the idea that the steroids at least taint the record in some way, then you could say we're back to the Red Sox not having won a legitimate world series since 1918.

In which case, being a Red Sox fan could have meaning again.

(braces for criticism).

3 Comments:

At 2:42 PM, Blogger amanda said...

Though if that's the case, there won't be any World Series champions at all until they enforce steroid rules far more strictly than they do now. I'm not against that--I hate to think that my favorite sports teams only win because they use drugs, but it's probably true. And it's probably true for everyone else's favorite teams. Maybe sports is just dead.

 
At 3:57 PM, Blogger Bad Decision Maker said...

or just start following basketball! less drugs there. at least, less performance-enhancing ones.

 
At 4:07 PM, Blogger KPd. said...

Or be a Mets fan! We still suck!

 

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