Posted on 03/31/2005 1:49:18 AM PST by nickcarraway
N. Dakota senator says steroids nullifies Bonds, McGwire, Sosa
A North Dakota legislator is trying to muscle Roger Maris' 61-homer season back into baseball's record books because of allegations that the three players who have surpassed him did so with the help of steroids.
"If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they're on the juice, then Roger should get his record back," Sen. Joel Heitkamp said.
He's sponsoring a resolution that asks baseball commissioner Bud Selig to reinstate Maris' record of 61 home runs in 1961. A spokesman for baseball did not respond to a request for comment.
The North Dakota Senate's Education Committee, which reviewed the resolution Monday, took less than 20 minutes to recommend that the full Senate approve it.
Maris, born in Hibbing, Minn., was a high school football star and American Legion baseball standout in Fargo, N.D., which has a museum displaying his memorabilia and a cancer treatment center named for him. Maris was buried in Fargo after his death from lymphoma in 1985.
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Well he has my support. MacGuire, Bonds et al are a stain on the greatest game.
I like Roger Maris, even read his biography, but talk about a pandering hack of a politician ...... and they think that Tom Delay was pandering to America's serious Christians with that Terri Schiavo bill??
An innocent woman is being starved to death, millions upon millions of illegal immigrants are invading our southern border, judges are overturning laws and writing their own laws at will, and the Constitution is being systematically torn apart piece by piece by out of control liberals, and elected members of Congress are worried about a baseball homerun record from 1961???
Tell me again why we pay these people.
I could not agree more. And this from a baseball fan.
What do you expect the ND senate to do about Terri?
Here, here to the senator. McGuire, Bonds, Sosa and the rest of the juicers are UNWORTHY of being considered among the greats of the game. How many homers would Ruth and Aaron have hit if they had been 'roided up? 850? 900? How many does Maris hit in '61? 70? 75? Can you imagine a 'roided up Mickey Mantle?
Those records will have zero credibility with most fans as long as the clueless, embarrassing Bud Selig continues to defend them as he tried to do in front of Congress.
Just imagine how many Mantle would have hit if he came to the park sober!
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You have a good point, but booze was legal. I hope they do strip these bums of their "records".
I want to see Maris' record restored, too, but not by government decree.
Please indicate which part of the Constitution deals with sporting records.
Thank you.
Remember Moe's immortal line from that old Three Stooges episode? "We're gonna get rubbed out after the fight ... and you're worried about a cream puff!"
You don't think the records set by steroid users
are tainted?
Nothing Preparation H couldn't have cured.
It's a S. Dakota legislator.
It's a N. Dakota legislator.
Correction
Agreed 101%!
"What do you expect the ND senate to do about Terri?"
Oh, I don't know, maybe try to reign in out of control judges who have no regard for the Constitution.
Why is the ND senator, or any senator, worried about who does and doesn't get into the baseball hall of fame? Unless Major League Baseball becomes the Federal Baseball League and is run by the Department of Sports Organizations then politicians have no business using taxpayers money to stick their noses into their internal issues. Especially when there are other, real, problems that Congress should be dealing with.
The key word in the resolution is "ask".
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