Curt Schilling on Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens: 'Greatest pitcher and the greatest hitter..use of PEDs...sucks'

For an interesting read click over to Curt Schilling's blog.   Schilling states his opinion forthrightly, which has brought him criticism.  It's great that he thinks about issues, then puts those thoughts out there for the public to ponder.

Schilling doesn't pull punches on Jose Canseco:  Wipe out Canseco's MLB career:

As far a Jose goes, my opinion on what he’s done is, I guess, rather convoluted. On one hand Jose lied about every aspect of his professional career as a player. His entire career, all of it, is a sham. He never belonged in the big leagues and anything he ever did in the major leagues is a hoax. He made it clear that he would not have been the player he was had he not cheated. His statistics should be erased, his MVP given to the runner up and he should go down as the guy who broke the silence on a horrible period of the game, period. He was never in his life a major league player.

The problem I have, and the opinion I have, is based on the fact that he lied his entire career, every single day of it. He cheated his entire career, and lied about it. He spent his entire career on the record claiming he didn’t use PEDs, yet only when his life was in shambles and only when it served Jose Canseco the most, did he ‘come clean’. Only then did he become this bastion of truth and honesty. Is that not the scam of scams? He made his hundred million or so, and when he was no longer good enough to compete up here, only when cheating stopped being enough to keep him competitive, only then did he scream ‘blackballed” and vow to get his revenge. Only then did he tell the truth, or his version of the truth.

However on Canseco's version of the steroid truth:

Which in the end gets us here. Say what you want about Jose, and there are things I disagree with and think he’s wrong about, but I have yet to find someone he’s named who’s NOT been guilty or tried to clear their name.

On his friend Roger Clemens, Schilling is blatantly honest again...wipe out The Rocket's career post-1997:

...to believe his (Clemens's) career 192 wins and 3 Cy Youngs he won prior to 1997 were the end. From that point on the numbers were attained through using PED’s. Just like I stated about Jose, if that is the case with Roger, the 4 Cy Youngs should go to the rightful winners and the numbers should go away if he cannot refute the accusations.

In a round about way Clemens also implicates the much-implicated Barry Bonds, then adds:

The greatest pitcher and greatest hitter of all time are currently both being implicated, one is being prosecuted, for events surrounding and involving the use of performance enhancing drugs. That sucks.

Schilling makes the argument that  a PED-cheater should lose his career stats from the point of PED use on, is compatible with the Olympic stance.  Both Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones lost their world marks following disclosure of PED use. That action would be both a deterrent, and a restitution fro drug-cheating.  This is an argument that must be considered as a course of action.

Comments

[Rick Rodriguez]

I appreciate and agree with Schilling's stance on steroids. Let's start with giving the rightful winners their awards.
Cheating is an epidemic that is destroying our society.
Is Tony LaRussa still covering for his Bash Brothers??