But you get them after the horse is out of the barn.
The season home run record is, and the lifetime home run record will be, a sham because MLB relished all the attention and money that came to the game over the last ten years. Selig and his minions thought we fans were idiots, that we would see it as perfectly natural for an athlete to put on 30 pounds of muscle in six months and take his season HR output from 40 to 65.
I grew up on Pete Rose, watching him run from home plate to first on a single hit to the outfield, hearing that he was the first player to take batting practice EVERY DAY, even after he passed Ty Cobb on the all-time hits chart. I coached a junior league team and used Rose for a model. Hell, I'd take nine Pete Rose's if I were a major league manager.
Yes, he bet on baseball and he is being made to suffer for it.
These cartoon characters that pass for ball players today and how they don't even get a slap on the wrist for using drugs reminds me of the old saw speculating about how many Catholics are doing time in hell today for eating meat on Friday when it's no longer something that draws the ultimate penalty.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what's your point? Unless you're willing to give up on the game altogether, I'm not sure what your pessimism accomplishes. They're getting closer to doing the real thing, and we should encourage them to go further, not complain that it took them so long to go this far.
Yes, he bet on baseball and he is being made to suffer for it.
Not if some FReepers have their way. They want to let him off the hook.