The Juice in the Arm gang, what to do.
OK long ball fans, just a few more weeks before some players start showing up for spring camps. The really big news is that the JUICE IN THE ARM GANG did not make the HOF. I think that Berry, Sammy and Mark will never make membership into the Hall as long as the voting sports writers have a memory of the juicing scandal, Lance has admitted to doing the same thing and he was striped of all his titles. I believe most of America considers juicing as cheating. Non of the three got close to the 75% of votes need for membership into the Hall of Fame, in fact non got even 40%. The newest member of the juice in the vain gang is Alex (won the HR title a few years back with 54). He can look forward to never being a member of the HOF.The last player to make the 60 homers club before the JITV gang took over was Rodger Maris, remember the call '61 in 61', that was a 38 year span before Mark did it. The last Pro Player to hit 60 before Roger was my father Forrest Edward Kennedy (Frosty) in 1956, for 5 years he was number 10 on the 60 homers list until Maris dropped him to number 11. So from 1927 (Babe Ruth) until 1961(Maris) only 11 men had hit 60 or more homers in one season, and it was done 12 times (Joe Hauser did it twice) in a 62 year span.
Then between 1998 and 2001 it was done six times by only three men. Did we really need drug testing to know that something was up?
1 BARRY BONDS 73 2001
2 MARK MCGUIRE 70 1998
3 SAMMY SOSA 66 1998
MARK MCGUIRE 65 1999
SAMMY SOSA 64 2001
SAMMY SOSA 63 1999
You can't really take a way a home run title (Sammy Sosa hit 60 three times, but never won the title) but something should be done about the stats.
I would like hear yor comments on this subject and any thoughts on what organized baseball should do, if anything on this matter.
