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My Hall of Fame Ballot - Viva El Birdos
In summing up which Cardinals deserve HoF consideration, Viva El Birdos delivers a strong argument for not holding Mark McGwire and other steroid freaks guilty for something that was tacitly accepted in baseball at the time:
To pillory McGwire and the other nineties sluggers for something nobody cared about at the time is moving the goalposts a little too much for my taste. Lots of people used steroids, we'll never know who did and who didn't, and that's the way baseball was at the time. People seem to want to let the dust settle, or wait for things to clear up, but it's not going to get any clearer than it is now: Major League Baseball tacitly accepted steroid use from the late 80s to the early aughts. That we feel guilty about it now is no reason to whitewash the things that happened in that decade. I hate to use a football analogy, now or ever, but if you're going to throw the challenge flag you should do it before everybody's moved on to the next play.
Also, I'm in the Jim Edmonds HoF camp as well, so I found his discussion of Edmonds's credentials to be pretty interesting.
Posted by on 5 January 2009 at 1:10 PM
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