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National League
Rank Team W L PCT Division
1 Chicago Cubs 76 48 .613 C1
2 New York Mets 68 57 .544 E1
3T Arizona 64 60 .516 W1
3T Los Angeles Dodgers 64 60 .516 W1
5 Milwaukee 72 54 .571 C2
6 St. Louis 70 57 .551 C3
7 Philadelphia 66 58 .532 E2
8 Florida 64 61 .512 E3
9 Houston 63 62 .504 C4
10 Colorado 57 69 .452 W3
11T Pittsburgh 56 69 .448 C5
11T Atlanta 56 69 .448 E4
13 Cincinnati 55 70 .44 C6
14 San Francisco 53 71 .427 W4
15 San Diego 48 76 .387 W5
16 Washington 44 81 .352 E5
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Rank Team W L PCT Division
1 Los Angeles Angels 76 47 .618 W1
2 Tampa Bay 76 48 .613 E1
3 Chicago White Sox 71 53 .573 C1
4 Boston 72 53 .576 E2
5 Minnesota 70 54 .565 C2
6 New York Yankees 66 58 .532 E3
7 Toronto 64 60 .516 E4
8 Texas 62 64 .492 W2
9 Detroit 61 64 .488 C3
10 Baltimore 60 64 .484 E5
11 Oakland 57 67 .46 W3
12 Cleveland 56 67 .455 C4
13 Kansas City 55 69 .444 C5
14 Seattle 46 78 .371 W4
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My good pal Frank wants to shut the doors of the HOF to ...
2006-11-26 09:12
by Bob Timmermann

At a card show in Cincinnati, Frank Robinson agreed with a writer from the Cincinnati Enquirer that Mark McGwire wouldn't get a vote for the Hall of Fame.

Robinson was his usual cranky self and opined that steroids gave players better eyesight in addition to making their muscles larger.

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2006-11-26 16:39:28
1.   Vishal
well, i'm no PED expert, but doesn't HGH enhance vision? the article implies that he was talking about steriods, but in context it sounds like he was discussing PEDs more broadly. and really i wouldn't expect an old baseball guy like frank to be putting too fine a point on something like this. it's broad strokes.
2006-11-26 18:06:12
2.   joejoejoe
Who had the better career - Mark McGwire or Juan Gonzalez?

. .McGwire Gonzalez
G 1874 . . 1689
AB 6187 . . 6556
TB 3639 . . 3676
BB 1317 . . 457
R 1167 . . 1061
BI 1414 . . 1404
2B 252 . . 388
HR 583 . . 434
BA .263 . .295
OB .394 . .343
MVP 0 . . . 2

Does Juan Gone belong in the Hall of Fame? If you add Runs + RBI McGwire was good for .843 per game while Gonzalez was good for .867 per game. The monster home run total by McGwire was sure impressive but his (lack of) testimony before Congress was not. McGwire's consistently huge walk numbers came with his first 50 HR season in '96, not before. Hall of Fame voters are going to have a hard time with the steroid era guys. I think Albert Belle was a better player than either of these guys in his prime but he doesn't get a sniff by HoF voters.

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