Hall of Fame Voting is a Joke

Ever since the BALCO fall out, the Mitchell Report, the cleanup of the game of baseball and the Biogenesis fall out the game has been reeling from steroids and allegations. I myself have always been on the side of, eventually anyway, letting in the steroid users and the players under suspicion from the steroid era simply because if you think there are players in the Hall that haven’t used then I think you have to get your head checked. I think it has to be all for one and one for all and you either have to let them all in or keep them all out. If you’ve already let them in, and you have, then you have to let them all in I would think. Anyway I could go on all day, the point of the article is the hypocrisy of the Hall of Fame voting for steroid users and suspicions.

Since 2005 we have had 113 current or former major league players suspended for performance enhancing drugs after there were 103 players that tested positive for steroid use in an anonymous survey back in 2003. Since then 89 players were named in the Mitchell Report and it shows no signs of slowing down after the Biogenesis scandal and such. I’m sure many thought the game was clean the last four to five seasons with offenses down and such and boom, Anthony Bosch throws a monkey wrench into the equation. Nobody knows who is clean and who is not and I don’t think that we ever fully will.

Mike Piazza garnered 62% of the vote for the Hall last season while Jeff Bagwell gathered 54% of the vote after admitting using androstenedione during their playing careers while players like Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds get close to nothing and players like Craig Biggio are still on the outside looking in. When David Ortiz comes up for election Bud Selig may find a way from his couch to get him inducted on the first ballot with 100% of the vote. It’s ridiculous, this is ridiculous and it’s nothing but a huge hypocrisy led by a bunch, not all, of hypocrites. Screw the BBWAA as a whole, although again I do have some respect for many of the writers including one of our own in Mike Axisa, for screwing up the Hall of Fame voting and the prestige behind it.

So go ahead and vote for Tim Raines who snorted cocaine, and admitted to it, DURING GAMES and leave out Bonds. Go ahead and vote for Piazza and Bagwell who admitted to using now BANNED SUBSTANCES but leave out Roger Clemens. Pedro Martinez… that guy is a lock. What a joke.