Duke Castiglione's Blog

Recently I had a chance to sit down with baseball's number two in charge, MLB C.O.O. Bob Dupuy.  Dupuy is one of the smartest and most thoughtful men in sports.  Many people much smarter than me think without Dupuy, baseball wouldn't be nearly as successful as it is.

Knowing Dupuy was going to come in studio I asked some of my friends, all passionate baseball fans, what they would ask Dupuy.  My agent Alan Sanders came up with this----Four of the Top 10 hitters on the current all-time HR list are in the Mitchell Report, Palmeiro, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa were performance enhancing drug users.  So armed with that I asked Dupuy------ did he and others at MLB ever think about putting an asterisk next to these names and others in the record book.  Dupuy very candidly said yes Major League Baseball has had the conversation but in the end decided it is up to the fan to determine how they want to view that player/record.


In a way, that answer is so perfect because it actually leads to further debate.  And isn't that what baseball records are all about???  John Doe can say Hank Aaron is the true all time homerun king because Hank did it naturally.   Jane Doe can argue that Barry Bonds is because yes he may have used steriods/hgh but he was not been found guilty in a court of law.  Plus, Jane can argue even if he did use them many of the pitchers he went up against were also users.