Obviously, there is no point in arguing with anyone about anything, but facts probably should have been checked. Hamilton has not made a secret of any of this since coming back in ‘05. He’s been an open book, so I know the info was out there.

So you’re all right with athletes harming their bodies as long as it doesn’t do anything to help them play the game better? In other words, you don’t care about the athletes as human beings; they are just semi-sentient beings who are put on the planet to entertain you.

“Steroids will allow the body to work out longer, harder, and develop quicker than someone who doesn’t utilize the drug.”

This can be said about many nutritional supplements. The only difference is that they are not on the list of banned substances. It’s fine if they ban steroids, but they have to be consistent and ban protein shakes and the rest of the still-legal stuff from GNC.

“In fact, it makes things alot more difficult for him.”

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s illegal. I’d much rather prefer my kids emulate A-Rod than Hamilton.

“Take away his minor league numbers, who cares? Those don’t matter.”

Flawless logic here. ‘Use steroids? Are you a Major Leaguer? No? Who cares!’

“have his numbers restricted, or he should be banned from baseball for every year he used. ”

A) There was no punishment for using steroids during the time period in which he has admitted to using. We can’t go back and add a punishment ex post facto. What if we illegalized eating French fries tomorrow? I’m sure you’d be cool if a cop showed up at your door and arrested you.

B) If MLB did this, it would be cutting off its nose to spite its face.

“Those who are already retired should have asteriks next to their names as well and be stricken from the record books.”

I’ll tell you what I tell everyone who suggests this: You want the record books changed? That’s your job, then. You just signed up for this. Volunteer your time to actually removing any trace of the athletes’ existence.

Here’s one example of what you’d have to do. Let’s use A-Rod’s home run tonight as an example. A-Rod hit a first-inning home run off of Jeremy Guthrie. So, what you will have to is remove the plate appearance, at-bat, hit, run, three RBI, four total bases, decrease his batting average, OBP, SLG, etc. Don’t forget to remove the plate appearance and run for the two base runners that scored. And you remove one batter faced, one hit, one home run, and three runs for Guthrie.

Now imagine doing that for every single event in A-Rod’s career. And then do it for all the other “cheaters” as well. You’re literally revising history. Why don’t we go back and prevent the U.S. from being colonized by British people fed up with taxes and religious persecution? Hiroshima? What’s that?

It’s easy for you to suggest that MLB take the time to do this because you know you don’t have to do it. Your tune would change if you actually considered the time and effort (and money) it would take to get this done.

“There needs to be examples made for others to fear the consequences.”

For what reason? No one ever has any solid justification for this. Why should there be consequences for using anabolic steroids, but not for getting Cortizone shots. Both are steroids, both enhance performance, both allow you to recover from the strain of athletic activity quicker. The lines between steroids and everything else are completely arbitrary and completely hypocritical.

We are punishing players just to punish them. We are following the pack on this one.

It’s because we love a good witch hunt.