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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/207e726a-6ecb-4336-a721-62218421d327/1C061E9B-3BAF-4602-AC7D-BD7C8AE78683/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/133061-hall-of-shame" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/133061-hall-of-shame" style="font-size: 11px;">bleacherreport.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/133061-hall-of-shame"><P>By allowing players like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire into the Hall of Fame, we are opening statistics up to interpretation. You know how people always say that the numbers don’t lie? In this case, the numbers </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/133061-hall-of-shame"><EM>would </EM>lie.
<P>Assuming that Barry Bonds’ career is over, he has finished with seven more career home runs (762) than Hank Aaron (755). Were seven or more of those home runs directly caused by the steroids that Bonds took? How many home runs would Bonds have wound up with had he not taken steroids? These shouldn’t be questions that we have to discuss.</p> <P>Baseball is America’s “National Pastime.” It has been around for over a century and a half. It’s a sport that prides itself on its tremendous history and part of that history is the statistics.</p> <P>Another thing that is important is the names attached to those statistics. Willie Mays and <EM>Sammy Sosa</EM>? Babe Ruth and <EM>Mark McGwire</EM>? Hank Aaron and <EM>Barry Bonds</EM>? Come on. Legends don’t belong in the same breath as the names italicized above.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1C061E9B-3BAF-4602-AC7D-BD7C8AE78683/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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