The Goose Is Booked

for Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame .

And Mark McGwire remains steady at a pathetic 128 votes .

And Clemens remains angry .

And Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four , which exposed players’ abuse of speed back in the early seventies, says ban em, for life .

And if it remains a he said/he said game? Whose “said” wins? And how far back do you go? And can entire teams be punished, if enough A-list players were on the juice?

I’m so grateful for clean, wholesome sports with model-worthy heroes for our young people to emulate.

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