Bill James outrageous Statements

This is from Bill Madden in Saturdays 7/25 New York Daily News,

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/07/25/2009-07-25_wilpons_need_to_completely.html?page=1#community

My Comments follow the story

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James off-base about steroids and Hall

The stat geek Bill James, who has made a fortune taking credit for having invented on-base percentage, last week revealed to the waiting world his position paper on steroids in baseball, which, essentially says that there is no harm in steroids and steroids have had no harm on baseball.

Mind you, this is coming from a guy who is employed by the Red Sox as a special assistant to GM Theo Epstein: "One of the characteristics of the steroid era was that we had several dozen players who continued to improve beyond the normal aging time frame, so that many of them had their best seasons past the age of 32. … But what does it mean? It means that steroids keep you young. … Well, if steroids keep you young, what's wrong with that?"

James goes on to say that he believes the Baseball Writers Association will eventually come to the same conclusion - that steroids didn't enhance performance, merely prolonged it, and that they will eventually vote all of the steroid cheats - Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro - into the Hall of Fame where they belong, ignoring evidence that the performance of some steroid users actually improved over time. He also said steroid users will be called "pioneers" in the future, when everyone in America, he said, will be on the drugs.

This is just what Bud Selig needs as he desperately tries to enforce and enhance baseball's drug policy and hold the game up as a model for young kids. I can only suppose James also agrees with Carl Everett that dinosaurs never existed and men never walked on the moon. Then again, didn't he just tell us a couple of years ago that teams would be more successful bringing their closers into the game in the seventh inning, and that bullpens-by-committee were the way to go? Obviously, the resident baseball stat geek wants to make sure all big stat players, however performance-enhanced those stats were, are properly enshrined in Cooperstown.

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When I read this My Blood Pressure tripled, How can Bill James say there was no effect or harm done to the game, And he must be on "crack" if he thinks that even one of the steroid boys will ever get into the HOF, I would not let any of these guys in even if they bought a ticket,
James is now a consultant to the Boston Red Sox, The Red Sox should fire him this morning,
To me James is endorsing Steroid use in baseball and if I was Bud Selig I would ban James for life from any official job in MLB,
Back to these guys ever getting in the HOF, It will never happen, There will never be more than maybe 50% of the writers who would vote for any of these guys, and the only guy who 'Might" except any of them is Gaylord Perry, I did see he thought some of them might get in after a few years, But hearing him say that will now make him an outsider to the rest of the members and many do think he should not have gotten in the HOF,