Cloning will never be legal, but either are drugs and the government doesn’t have any luck keeping that under control.

I’d like to go on record and say that in the next 20 years there will be a clone based on the DNA of Albert Pujols, Johan Santana, and Babe Ruth. He will be named Alhan Ruth, and will win the MVP as a hitter in his rookie year, win the cy young as a starter (starting over 50 games), and will break k-rods record for saves.

We’ll see an Indian baseball player before we see a woman.

please keep George Lucas away from them.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
The Public

I’d say a woman, but only because I doubt cloning for the explicit reason of creating another human will never really take shape.

And she’d probably pitch.

getting a cup of coffee in the next 20-30 years seem at least remotely likely? Yeah, it would be publicity and promotionally based, as opposed to based on being the best available prospect at a particular position, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see something like that happen.

There will be a clone of a baseball player and he will suck. Ted Williams’ kid wasn’t any good at baseball y’know.

Right now there are two competing and related fields of science:

1) Cloning
2) Genetic manipulation

The reason that I say that they are competing is as follows. Because if a clone were to make it first, it would be a victory for cloning. But if a woman were to make it first, it would almost certainly be the result of genetic manipulation for all of the reasons discussed earlier in this posting.

Now, the former is a matter of nature v. nurture. Are these individuals any more likely to reach the majors than the average person? If so, to what extent? This seems like it would be related to the percentage of someone’s success that is determined by their genes (as opposed to the way that they were raised).

The latter, on the other hand, seems to be inevitable. Eventually someone will do it, and since there are hundreds of millions of women in baseball-playing countries, the chances of this happening once genetic manipulation happens is probably near 100% (and relatively soon thereafter…).
 
So, my vote is for the clone, if only because they’d probably be raised, as part of a scientific experiment, by an army of baseball playing geniuses like Arnold Schwartzenagger in Twins. It is most likely that Greg Maddux would be leading this team. The End.