Letters to the Editor
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Show me the money
Baseball, despite everything you read and hear about Bonds, is not played for all-time or single-season records, it is played for championships. Yet I haven't heard anyone suggest that the A's return their 1989 World Championship trophy because Canseco admittedly and McGwire allegedly were dopers (Ms. Walsh, that would give your Giants their elusive World Championship; make this a crusade).
More to the point, if all the games involving Canseco, Ken Caminiti and Rafael Palmeiro for sure, and Bonds, McGwire, Jason Giambi, Sammy Sosa, and a legion of other suspects were played under false pretenses, false enough that they need "investigation", where do I line up to get my refund?
Last year, I attended the game where Rafael Palmeiro got his 3000th hit at Safeco Field in Seattle. Both the Mariners and Orioles sucked that season, yet there was a larger than usual crowd out there, in case he was going to make the mark. We now know that Major League Baseball knew at the time Palmeiro got that hit that he had flunked his drug test. Yet they trotted him out there, let the tickets get sold, let him smack his hit and stand there and interrupt the game (at an opposing team's stadium) and get mobbed by his teammates and all that crap, knowing it was just as false as a three dollar bill. I have the moment on video. Think it's worth anything now?
The owners are not just complicit in all this; they take no responsibility and pocket the cash.