The thing that bothers me most isn’t the piazza part but just the thought of this.
COO Jeff Wilpon, who has the last word on both the Hall of Fame’s recommendations and the retired numbers
via Mike Piazza’s chances at Mets’ Hall of Fame a ‘Long Shot’?.
It makes sense since he is the COO but…well if you watch Game of Thrones, do you like King Joffrey?
As long as Mike Piazza is a suspected PED user, his number shouldn’t be retired. And if he DOES get into the HOF, would he go in as a Dodger or as a Met? I’m inclined to agree with Marty Noble’s assessment of Piazza using PEDs. The physical side-effects don’t lie.
Kathy, there is zero evidence that Piazza did anything more than the andro he admitted to trying. There are no positive drug tests, no witnesses, no mention in either the Mitchell Report or in any government investigations. Nor has his name ever been linked to any known distributor or on any lists from known clinics (lists that contain hundreds of names). The statement that Piazza is a “suspected PED user” is based on only opinion – not one piece of hard evidence exists.
But even beyond that. Even if Piazza did do something (and again, all the evidence points to that he did not), the fact remains that PEDs were technically legal under Major League Baseball rules all the way up through the most recent CBE. How can anyone criminalize a person for doing something that wasn’t itself a criminal act? The hypocrisy that exists around this is ridiculous.