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You shamelessly defended Barry Bonds's steroid use, parroting the popular but mistaken notion that it was not against MLB rules to do so at the time that he was raping the record book. I refuted it by citing the same Commissioner's memo that I cited in this debate.
Then you discredited Babe Ruth's accomplishments, parroting the popular but mistaken notion that if he had played against the best Negro League pitchers of the '20s and early-'30s, that his totals would have been dramatically downscaled. Of course, I argued that of all the Negro League pitchers that were pitching at that time, the lion's share would have been minor league caliber, that only a handful would have been major league caliber, and that of those, perhaps a few would have been All-Star caliber. And if those few high-caliber pitchers were distributed among all the 16 teams in both leagues, that Ruth would have had a very small percentage of his at bats against those pitchers.
Of course, that was one of the debates that you dropped out of quickly, after being refuted so soundly. I guess you only remember the Circle Game debates.
Last edited by Kevin Finnerty; Fri Jan 15, 2010 at 02:52pm.
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