Bud Selig thinking of reinstating Aaron as HR king

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Posted By: Don

Some of you are missing my point. In order to have an objective standard to deal with the PED issue, ban anyone who is a proven PED user. Declare that anyone banned will not have their stats as part of MLB official records and ineligible for the HOF. Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe etc. would be caught in the banned net and have their stats removed as well. Unfortunate? Maybe, but there has to be an objective way to deal with the PED issue and clean up MLB records. This was just my suggestion on how to do that.

The easy way to fix Rose/Jackson etc. would be to reinstate them. And who knows, maybe in the hindsight of history, people like McGwire/Sosa/Bonds would be reinstated as well and have their records count (I hope not though).

Personally, I don't see how anyone who was banned should have their stats count anyway. That should be part of the price you pay for doing something so egregious that you get banned from MLB.

If all these PED users thought they might get banned, and subsequently have their stats not recognized by MLB, it would take away a major incentive for using PED's.