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G.O.A.T.
Who would you vote for?
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Biggio...3K hits, 7-time All-Star, multiple Gold Gloves, 50/50 doubles/SBs season, never an off-field headline. The vote is a sham if he isn't a first-ballot HOFer.
Bonds was a HOF before he took PED, same with Clemens. It's an absolute joke that baseball writers seem so high and mighty about the integrity of the game when there have been cheats and felons all throughout baseball history. I'm not excusing what they did, but the history of baseball cannot be told without Bonds/Clemens, and McGwire/Sosa for that matter who helped save MLB. They all should be let in IMO. Screw the PED sanctimony.
I didn't realize that it was the writer's job to levy punishments against cheaters.
J
I guess you never heard of Joe Jackson
While your guess is incorrect, I am curious as to what lead you to hazard such a guess.
J
You said you didnt know the writers could levy punishments against cheaters. Didnt they set a precedent by not voting him into the HOF?
You said you didnt know the writers could levy punishments against cheaters. Didnt they set a precedent by not voting him into the HOF?
I think all of the steroid boys should be forever banned from the HOF.
And this poses another looming question: does ALex Rodriguez make it to Cooperstown? Big Papi? Manny Ramirez?
I think most of the users have been identified; Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, Roger, Palmero, et al.
I just wish the writers would come out and say why they're not letting Bonds or Clemens in. If you don't think cheaters should prosper, then say so. But Bonds and Clemens were shoe-ins into the Hall way before the PED scandals came up. And this poses another looming question: does ALex Rodriguez make it to Cooperstown? Big Papi? Manny Ramirez?
I think most of the users have been identified; Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, Roger, Palmero, et al.
If Rose was barred for mere gambling as a manager ( and not against his own team), how does one justify not banning steroid users?
Maybe they should build an annex at Cooperstown shaped like a hypodermic needle and have a special steroid HOF section.
Without a "smoking gun", you sort of have to assume that everyone (or no one) from this era was taking steroids, don't you?
Otherwise it is clearly just down to prejudice / "popularity contest". Which is fine I guess, but doesn't seem "right" (not that that "right" or "wrong" have much to do with it).
The logic seems to be "lets only punish the really, really, really good steroid users that the public doesn't like". I have no problem with this mind you, but there isn't a lot of sense to it all the same (Lance, are you listening.....)
I think most of the users have been identified; Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, Roger, Palmero, et al.
If Rose was barred for mere gambling as a manager ( and not against his own team), how does one justify not banning steroid users?
Maybe they should build an annex at Cooperstown shaped like a hypodermic needle and have a special steroid HOF section.
Jeez, I'm sick of all this steroid talk. Let's talk about a sport where absolutely no doping takes place...Who do you think is gonna win the Australian Open?
It makes a lot of sense to me.
While you think the process is some sort of selective vendetta, I think it’s strategic and utilizing 80/20 rule.
Without having unlimited personnel and resources, the MLB and cycling are trying to clean up their sports by taking down the top guys, the ring leaders, hoping for increased public awareness and a domino effect. I know it’s cliché but the best way to neutralize a snake is to cut off its head. We all know how difficult and expensive it is to go after a guy like Bonds or Armstrong.
A step in a right direction, don’t you think? The first step is always the hardest and I applaud them for it.
As is often the case, I think most people make up their minds first, and only then do they look for facts to back up their opinion (prejudice); not the other way around. Everyone "knows" Clemens, Bonds, etc don't "deserve" to be in the HOF, and everyone "knows" Biggio does. Now we just have to selectively look at things to support our view (you guys know that Biggio played pretty much the exact same years as Bonds and Clemens, right?).
Poor Barry BOnds
Poor Roger Clements
Let 'em all in I say! And give Lance Armstrong his yellow jackets back.
It's too bad to punish the (all time) greats of the sport just because they have been relegated to the status of "steroid poster boy / everything that is wrong with the sport" in the minds of the public. But at the same time, give a free pass to all the other steroid boys...just because they weren't quite as good as these guys.
I read Roger Clemens' tweet in response to being snubbed on some other website. He just lost my last ounce of respect. I do, however, agree with other fans who say that if Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, and others get elected then the HOF should let Pete Rose (gambling) in.
I read Roger Clemens' tweet in response to being snubbed on some other website. He just lost my last ounce of respect. I do, however, agree with other fans who say that if Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, and others get elected then the HOF should let Pete Rose (gambling) in.
Different animal.
Pete Rose used his position as manager to bet on his games. He bet on games he played in. Everyone knows thats a big no no since the Black Sox scandal. Also Rose was thrown out of the league something Clemens and Bonds never had happen.
These guys where doing things that the league knew of. Of course they knew that the players where on funky things but they didnt care until all the sudden PED's became public knowledge. Now the players they rode to financial gain are being tossed aside.
In case you were sleeping, they didnt vote ANYONE in
I was referring to some of the posts on this thread.
(I get the feeling you don't like me much)
It's too bad to punish the (all time) greats of the sport just because they have been relegated to the status of "steroid poster boy / everything that is wrong with the sport" in the minds of the public. But at the same time, give a free pass to all the other steroid boys...just because they weren't quite as good as these guys.
nah, volleygirl's a babe and you're a dude ... as sure as barry bonds is a juiced-up balloon headI was referring to some of the posts on this thread.
(I get the feeling you don't like me much)
^^ 1991, per a directive by Commissioner Fay Vincent, though real enforcement began later.
My question is if MLB didn't punish them, and they weren't punished under criminal law, where in the wild blue f*** do the people that write about them in newspapers get off thinking it is their right to punish them?
MLB has hundreds of positive steroid tests on players in the 2000s and they don't tell anyone about them, and they inflict no punishment on the players. (Just like A-Rod who's positive test was leaked by congress)
J
They became the poster boys of the steroid era. The press hates Bonds because he wasnt the nicest guy to deal with and they will never let that go. Its all a show to try and make an example out of certain guys but its honestly a big black eye on the MLB not the players.
I just dont see how you can keep the most dominant hitter of his era out of the hall.
Bonds has the most MVPs and Clemens has the most Cy Youngs ever but like Goose Gossage said, "theyre accomplishments are all hollow so it really doesnt matter what their stats are." We will just have to agree to disagree on whether they should be voted in or not.
I really dont care what Goose Gossage says. Eckersley said the same thing and i still dont care.
you dont block out an entire period of time because of this. You cant allow a single person in from the time period if thats the attitude because if you think it was only the top dogs taking stuff you are very naive.