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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18,2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I regret that my actions [that led to my suspension] made the situation worse than it needed to be... I'm ready to put this chapter behind me and play some ball."
Alex Rodriguez
FACT OF THE DAY
No player named in the Mitchell Report received more than 206 votes.
THE MORNING BREW
Baseball Writers Association
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many hits does Pete Rose have in his career?
A: 4.256
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Rose should be in the MLB Hall of Fame instead of Bonds
We hear about vacated wins all the time. Some college kid wasn't academically
eligible, a coach cheated, an organization cheated, or some other way.
don cheated, or some other way. What does a "vacated win" really mean?
It means we don't know what would've happened if a coach hadn't provided impermissible benefits or a player was kicked off the team because of his grades, so we err on the side of caution and disallow it all. But why are things any different when we talk about the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame?
Why is it even a question that guys who tainted the game with steroids and HGH don't deserve even the slightest mention in a Hall of Fame ballot?
While new commissioner Rob Manfred was somewhat bashful when he attacked the issue of steroids — a series of statements which essentially
the Hall?
boiled down to, "I'll let the voters figure it out" — he was more decisive when discussing the fate of one of baseball's most controversial stars. Pete Rose, who has been banned from the majors since 1989, is the game's all-time hits leader. Manfred was open to discuss the possibility of allowing Rose to return from his life-long ban. This would mean he could find his way onto a Hall of Fame ballot, and who would deny Pete Rose's claim to
Rose violated one of baseball's oldest rules: he bet on approximately five to 10 games from basketball, hockey, football and baseball every day while in the league. Rose was banned from attending Major Baseball League functions three years after he retired, according to Sports Cheat Sheet.
At the end of the day, if Pete Rose didn't bet on games he was in, what he did was seummy, but he shouldn't be ineligible for the Hall.
However, for the guys who tainted America's pastime by cheating, there is only one appropriate course of action, and it is not a course that ends in Cooperstown.
From where I sit, it's a simple decision. If a player has been connected with steroids, if it's not proven beyond a shadow of a doubt he didn't do it, he doesn't deserve a spot in the record books, the Hall of Fame or the game itself.
It's about trust. How do we know where Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens would be or the records they'd hold if they were clean? How can we say these guys deserve to among the greats like Ruth, Gehrig and Robinson when they cheated and lied to us?
It's about fairness. It's very much an insult to the Hall of Famers who did it the right way, to have their halls tainted by men who dishonored the game.
It's about legacy. If Barry Bonds' record remains in the books, is it really OK to say Hank Aaron is the second-best power hitter of all time, even though he didn't need a needle and testosterone to set his record?
And it's about the game. Any man mentioned in the Mitchell Report disgraced Major League Baseball by cheating.
They don't have a rightful spot in the Hall.
LA Kings beat Lightning 3-2 for 5th straight victory
— Edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho
BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — With five straight victories, the Los Angeles Kings are digging their way out of a slump that has threatened their playoff chances.
Jordan Nolan scored the goahead goal early in the third period and Jeff Carter added an insurance score in a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night.
Los Angeles Kings left wing Dwight King, left, and Tampa Bay Lightning center Tyler Johnson battle for the puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game Monday in Los Angeles. The Kings beat the Lightning 3-2.
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"Things are coming together for us," said Anze Kopitar, who scored the tying goal in the second. "We're playing with more inspiration as we should have before. We're getting some breaks, which doesn't hurt."
The Kings had lost three in a row before the current streak, their longest since taking six straight games from Oct. 12-26. The defending Stanley Cup champions are still fighting for a playoff berth, though.
"We're still in a hole," Kopitar said. "We know where we stand, so we've got to keep on going."
Jonathan Quick stopped 21 shots in his fifth consecutive victory.
Nolan scored his fourth of the season at 3:36, taking a pass from Dwight King and putting the puck in the top of the net to give the Kings a 2-1 lead.
"Every win is going to be big from here on," Nolan said.
King notched his second assist on Carter's 16th goal at 13:58 of the third. Drew Doughty flipped a pass to Carter just past the blue line and Carter converted, extending the Kings' lead to 3-1.
Kopitar tied the game 1-all on a breakaway at 7:04 of the
second. Trevor Lewis found a streaking Kopitar, whose shot just cleared the top of Andrei Vasilevskiy's right blocker.
"Right away in the second period we started playing well," Doughty said. "It's like we woke up. His goal gave us a huze boost."
Vasilievskiy made 25 saves for the Lightning, who were playing the second half of a
back-to-back.
"Sometimes when you play pretty well, you don't win," center Brian Boyle said. "And that's what this time of year is all about, the attention to detail. So the margin for error is really, really small. We had a couple of breakdowns, and they've got some guys who can shoot the puck."
Nikita Nesterov raced in.
picked up a rebound and scored top shelf for his first NHL goal at 12:11 of the first, giving Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead. The Lightning got a late goal from Tyler Johnson with 36 seconds left to cut it to 3-2.
"They're a tough team to play against," Johnson said. "They're very structured and they don't give you very much. You beat one guy and they always have
another guy there. But I don't think we played well enough in the third period or stuck to our structure enough. We weren't forcing plays and weren't able to feed each other enough."
The Kings have scored 19 goals during their winning streak. Their defense clamped down on Tampa Bay, the league's highest-scoring team with 189 goals.
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