Wednesday, August 7, 2013

PED's

While on the subject of PED's in baseball, the questions keep coming back...how does this put a handle on the subject of the top players in this era getting/not getting into the Hall of Fame?  Will Bonds, Sosa, Clemens, Rodriguez, etc. ever have a shot?

First of all, after this year's vote, the HOF to me now is irrelevant.  As one sportscaster put it:

"By keeping out those players suspected of using PED's, what about the one's you never suspected?  Take Derek Jeter as an example.  No brainer, 1st ballot Hall of Famer.  Now, what if in 30 years, it comes out that Jeter was on some sort of PED program - only he just had better doctors than A-Rod?  What do you, retroactively remove him after he'd been enshrined 25 years earlier?  Not so easy to do."

After this year's vote, someone (I think a voting writer) was asked: "At some point we're probably going to inadvertently elect someone who used PED's regularly who at the time, we just didn't suspect.  What happens then?"

The writer's response? 

"I think we may already have."

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