Matt Herges: Does the Mitchell Report make him unwelcome to us?

have done things in their past that they aren’t particularly proud of now. If you own up to it and sincerely apologize for it, it’s over. Personally I think Matt has done both things. Done is done. (This does not include heinous crimes such as murder, rape, etc.)

I’m glad he’s back with the Rockies, and hope The Herge can help us in the pen. He also knows what it’s like to be the playoff chase (and in the playoffs), and could well be a benefit in that regard as well.

As I think I mentioned once before, I’m a big cycling fan and that’s very much at the forefront of the fight against drugs. It’s a bigger deal there, the suspensions are much tougher and forgiveness is much harder to find, and I think that’s how it should be.

Takes PEDs is obviously nothing like murder etc. But it is a flouting of the most fundamental ethical underpinnings of sport in general. The cheat is using unfair means to put himself above people who play the game fairly, and thus earning more privilege, money and fame (and, by extension, taking it away from the honest players).

I think it’s seldom justifiable to end someone’s career for one mistake, no matter how big that might be. But punish them properly – less than 1/3 of a season? 2 months? That’s barely a deterrent. Punish them in a way that really hurts. And let them live with the consequences to their reputation, honour and that snatched-away Hall of Fame spot they’d been aiming at since high school.

The Rockies as an organisation pride themselves on playing the game the way it should be played, with a strong moral and respectful base. Not employing drug cheats should, I think, be part of this approach.

On the basis that he never bet against a team he was playing for or managing at the time. In other words, his actions did not affect the legitimacy of any game.

If it’s ever proven otherwise, then bye bye.

I have no problem having Herges as a Rockie. PED’s in baseball was and still is an issue, but I’m not sure why everyone wants to punish those that were caught, while doing nothing to those that weren’t caught, and we the public will never know if they did or did not take PED’s.

There was no across the board testing. Yes it was illeagal after awhile (roids) but Speed has been used by baseball players going back to the 60’s. There was a don’t ask, don’t tell policy. Now that the winds of opinion have changed, I’m not sure those should go back and punish those now for what they did in the past.

There should be a “don’t do it again, everyone gets to redeem themselves” and move on. We don’t brand people, and make them guilty forever in America. Americans use to not be so concerned about who some one once was…but who they were now….and who they will be in the future.

I have talked to a few Dodger fans, and they all couldn’t wait until Manny returned. They cheered for him in SD. These are the same people that bood Barry Bonds.

I am disapointed in Herges, but I am also willing to forgive him. Now the issue is clear.

If it comes out that a prominent Rockie has been caught the same way Manny has been caught, I will not cheer him when he comes back. I want that player traded.

since MLB has done a pretty sloppy job of handling this entire PED issue it makes then entire discussion very hazy. Is Herges off the stuff? If he is, he’s good to go.

I’d prefer that no one ever used any PED’s but at the same time it’s hard to fault the guys who used the stuff before it was illegal and I always hear that a lot of guys used stuff to help come back from injury, which if, true makes them even harder to fault.

PEDS are Cheating. Capital lettter intentional. Intentional, pre-meditated cheating at the expense of clean players. That’s why it’s so offensive.

And you don’t mind Bonds cheating because he’s so talented? That logic is warped dude! A) so Herges and his like should be treasted differently from the superstars, with the superstars getting a free pass, and b) if he’s so bloody talented why does he cheat? (see also Rodriguez, Alex)

I have MORE of a problem with the cheating stars as they’re the ones who change the face of the game, the records that baseball, more than any other sport, clings to passionately. McGwire’s home run record? Worthless. Roger Maris must be a bitter man. And is Albert Pujols, for whom Maris’s record is looking attainable but McGwire’s not, happy to admit that he’s second best to a cheat?