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Post #392047

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vote_for_palpatine
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Baseball question for Warbler - (or anyone else who may be following it)
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11-Jan-2010, 10:14 PM

I'm glad to read so many "no" votes here. The issue with McGwire, Bonds, Clemens and others of that ilk is NOT their ability. We all know these men have HOF ability; it's their decision to compromise the integrity of the game they represented which will rightfully keep them out of the hall.

So many steroid apologists go to the "other bad guys in the Hall" argument. Cap Anson was a racist, Ted Williams was a jerk, Ferguson Jenkins was a drug addict, etc. Those character traits are abhorrent, to be sure - but Ted Williams' antisocial behavior did not cheat the game. Jenkins' drug use wasn't some attempt to get an unfair leg up on the competition. Anson's racism may have established the color line in baseball, which DOES affect the integrity of the game. Honestly, I wouldn't have a problem with removing Anson and others like him, looking at the issue that way. But that's going afield a bit, and my larger point is that the HOF shouldn't be restricted to the Stan Musial types - jerks who played the game honestly can get in too, if they were good enough.