Which is fine, but if you come at baseball from the prospective of boys of summer/hope springs eternal, you're not likely to forgive or forget. Keep in mind, baseball is a sport where a commissioner wrote this
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giamatti.html. If this were any other sport, I think people would forget, but baseball has fans to whom it represents something more and all of the sudden those numbers that meant so much are meaningless (not that they weren't already) and this story book fiction is ruined.