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Originally Posted by z28jd
Since PEDs were brought up, does anyone else wonder how every other major sport has almost no issues compared to MLB, yet MLB is the one that gets killed because they tried to clean up the sport? Why is it that people have no problem watching football and all these crazy things happen with huge humans doing ridiculous things and NO ONE cares. No one in their right mind can believe the NFL cracks down on players with the size they are and punishment they take.
It's mind-boggling to me that baseball does the most against PEDs, yet they also get killed the most. Every off-season, the talk is PEDs for the last ten years or so.
It's like the other three major sports all said, thanks for taking the heat MLB, we will be over here in the corner ignoring everything, occasionally finding one guy so it looks like we are doing something.
I never understood how the sport that does more than the other three major sports combined, gets the black eye.
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I think the reason for this is that numbers are so sacred in baseball. Record-holders are revered more than in any other sport. In football, no one cares who has the most rushing TDs, so if someone comes along and breaks the record looking like they stepped out of a comic book, there aren't a bunch of fans who are offended. They are just entertained. With baseball, you grow up memorizing all the numbers and it really doesn't feel right to have a guy with a size 9 head break 755.