Buster Olney makes a couple of good points in his latest posting on ESPN. Selig has talked about "adjusting" the home run records achieved during the "Steroid Era". According to Buster, if he tries to do that, he is subjecting himself to a slippery slope of unfathomable proportions.
What do you then do about the pitching records, such as Roger Clemens Cy Young Awards? What about the team records? Do you eliminate all the Yankee World Series wins?
Last, but not least, what do you tell the fans who bought tickets to a game you have just deemed a fraud? Wouldn't they be entitled to a refund?
How sad that the one time Bud tries to be decisive, all he does is open Pandora's Box. Commissioner Selig, try talking to Bob Ryan, of the Boston Globe. He has an idea.
***IT WASN'T MY FAULT***
It seems a certain manager has blamed some WS failures on someone most people consider the best reliever baseball has seen. Yes, it appears to be all Mariano Rivera's fault. The fact that he was exhausted from being overused late in the season had nothing to do with it. As Picasner has indicated time and again, the scariest job on baseball is to be a set-up man on Joe Torre's staff. After he burned out Steve Karsay, Paul Quantrill, Tom Gordon, Tanyon Sturtz, Ron Villone, and Scott Proctor (three times), who was left, but old faithful, Mo' Rivera. ...but it wasn't Joe's fault.
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