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The dead tree edition of the Wall Street Journal had an editorial that addresses the escalading steroid mess. Their take on it was that it should be treated the same way records are treated when measuring stats generated in the early, pre-1920s days of baseball, known as the "dead ball" era, in comparison to the "live ball" era that followed. They propose that all post-1995 numbers be called the "Live Player" era, since that was the year two bit hacks suddenly started beating balls at a clip...

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