2013 MLB Hall of Fame Screechfest

Yes.

 

This thread has absolutely sucked to read.

 

No, I'm not.

It was put forward that PED use in baseball was acceptable because it was condoned by MLB, by authority. So I wanted to know: Does authority excuse all bad behavior by its subjects? Or is there something particularly different about this example in which authority excuses bad behavior by its subjects? That seems like a perfectly reasonable line of inquiry, and I find it helpful to start with the extreme situation, and then begin working backward from there.

 

"No one"?

Lots of people do.

What is my intuition? My intuition, of course, is that PEDs and My Lai are different. But because my intuition tells me this does not, in my world, preclude me from exploring the nuances to understand exactly why this is the case.

There are no stupid questions.

 

I don't know. I'm going to need to see some sharper evidence.

 

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure the question is settled. And I certainly haven't arrived at my own conclusion yet. Hence, the initial hissy-fit on the thread by oop because I said I'd have to wait to vote on PED users because I don't know what I think of it yet.

 

MLB isn't really. I guess I mean the larger "baseball society," a large portion of which expects us to be the Morality Police for them.

 

If Hitler's soldiers were following legal orders, were they wrong?

Yeah, I went there. Godwin's Law, bitches. The thread needed it.

 

Hitler was not a first ballot HOFer

 

Wrong Adolf.

Butenandt is your man.


In 1933 he became professor of organic chemistry at the Danzig Institute of Technology and here he demonstrated the similarities between the molecular structures of androsterone and cholesterol. His proposed structure for androsterone was confirmed by Leopold Ružička's synthesis in 1934. The male hormone testosterone was synthesized by Butenandt and Ružička only months after its isolation in 1935. Butenandt and Ružička were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1939 but Butenandt was forbidden to accept it by the Nazi government. Butenandt was also the first to crystallize an insect hormone, ecdysone, and found that this too was a derivative of cholesterol. Later he led research on the isolation and synthesis of the pheromones.

www.answers.com/topic/adolf-butenandt

 

Adolf Butenandt: Hall of Famer?

 

Why don't we cease hall inductions for about 5 years in recognition of the shame of the steroids era? Well, because the HOF itself relies on the induction ceremony economically, just like the cities rely on irrelevant bowls to bring 20,000 desperate souls to spend money. Otherwise, it's a measure worth considering.