How could any of them vote for a cheater?
2007-01-10 06:09:53 · 11 answers · asked by Yankee Dude 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I keep going back to the congressional hearings. The problem I have is that when McGwire had the chance to clear up any questions concerning his involvement with the use of steroids, he would not answer the question. Why?? He had a chance to close the door on any speculation any might have had. Instead he left the door wide open, babbled like a baby and went into hiding ever since. Again, why??
Actions do in fact speak much louder than words and in this case his silence has been deafening. His 583 home runs are impressive but the rest of his stats are not. Take away his "chemically enhanced" home runs and you have very unremarkable numbers to a very average ball player.
McGwire is not a hall of famer and never was even before his alleged steroid use. Say what you want about Jose but his book may very well have been a great service to baseball.
For those sports writers who say that they will not vote for McGwire for a couple of years as punishment but vote him in at a later date is ridiculous. What are they saying, it's not okay to be a cheater now but in a couple of years it is okay to have cheated?
The baseball writers need to clean up their act as well. Can you imagine that 8 and 17 voters respectively didn't vote for Ripkin and Gwynn? The more you look the more you can see that baseball is still in big trouble.
2007-01-10 06:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by The Mick "7" 7 · 22⤊ 0⤋
I'm confused about all the arguements about whether or not steroid "users" should be in the hall of fame or not. Cooperstown was created as a museum for baseball. The definition of a museum is an institution that celebrates events (good or bad) in whatever topic the museum is fashioned for. To have a museum not include people because of something they might have done wrong, is to pretend like the event never happened. It would be like the Museum of Modern History creating a World War 2 Exhibit and forgetting to mention anything about Hitler.
They should be in the HoF because they are a part of the game and its history.
2007-01-10 15:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by Chris L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Half of the league was cheating in the first half of the century. The Black Sox. Pine tar, spitballs, and ball doctoring all happened just to name a few things. Regardless of his steroids, McGwire did do something amazing, and putting him in the Hall is something that is necessary to properly chronicle the history of baseball regardless of your morality standards. Ty Cobb is in the HOF and his statue in front of Comerica Park shows him sliding cleats up, something he was known for throughout his career. The Hall of Fame should have the players whose contributions were most significant, not had the highest level of integrity. Put up a big sign next to his name talking about the steroid use if you want, but he belongs in there.
2007-01-10 14:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by klubbandy575 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow ... are you psychic or something? As I recall, nobody proved McGwire did anything. You simply have a bunch of moralists with the underwear in a wad because A) McGwire refused to cater to the government and B) Jose felt a need to "vindicate" himself by attacking others.
2007-01-10 14:19:14 · answer #4 · answered by Zombie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing's been proven what or what he didn't do. Sure it's pretty obvious, but let's assume he used steroids or something else like it. Technically he didn't cheat. There were no rules against that in baseball at that time. He wanted to be the best at that time, and he probably took something to help him along. Again it wasn't against the rules of MLB at that time. He shouldn't be judged on something that wasn't against the rules WHEN he "did it".
2007-01-10 15:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by yblur 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some reasons they gave were that since he hasn't been proven with physical evidence that he used steroids, they would vote him in. But we all know that he did and despite the numbers shouldn't be in the hall.
2007-01-10 14:19:11 · answer #6 · answered by JJ 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What to add?
As always I sit in read in awe and wonder at the extremely well thought out, logical, and insightfullness answers of Mick "7". His answers truly are worth the 10 points and more. I enjoy just reading his answers for what they offer to adding to my expanding knowledge of the game.
He says it all, he deserves the 10 points!
2007-01-10 18:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a bigger surprise to me that Jose Canseco had 6 votes. What the hell?
2007-01-10 17:12:43 · answer #8 · answered by mannishboy24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how did he cheat? even if he took steroids it wasn't against baseball rules for most of his career
2007-01-10 16:05:00 · answer #9 · answered by rare breed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What happened to being innocent until proven guilty?
2007-01-10 14:35:31 · answer #10 · answered by Cardinals = Greatness 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋