How Should the Baseball Hall of Fame Treat the Steroid Era?

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Everyone knew these guys were on roids. I'm sick of hearing about it. These guys are entertainers. Obviously the new wave of HOF'ers shouldn't be thought of as highly as the old timers, this problem wasn't limited to a few. In the roids debate, the exception became the rule. Move on, baseball is the best sport out there and the wrongs have been corrected! Go Yanks!

GeneralDonMega of NY 8:44AM July 29, 2009

Babe Ruth often hit HR’s while impaired - after a night of drinking & womanizing. Unless Bonds, A-Rod, McGuire, & the like can post his stats while drug free – keep them out! Pitchers such as Cy Young, Nolan Ryan or Tom Seaver are welcome! Pitchers who took performance enhancing drugs prior to pitching should enter the sandlot Hall of Shame! Hall of Fame should remain reserved for EXTRAORDINARY players – not those who must rely on performance enhancing drugs to play. Grant these buffoons admission – why bother taking a trip to Cooperstown?!

A. Lee of CO 3:03AM July 29, 2009

All you need to say is Pete Rose. If these dopers can get into the HOF why not Rose.. He had an addiction just like the dopers.
I think it's a travesty that The hits leader of all time is not in the HOF Give me a break dopers should NOT be in the Hall of Fame

Lawrence of NC 9:28PM July 28, 2009

Baseball screwed up - union and the commish - they were very happy to have the (wink wink) homer derby bring back life to the sport wounded badly by the strike - get some real drug testing for the future and what is past is past - let them in - too late to get high and mighty about it

Les Mangold of CA 9:17PM July 28, 2009

Set the standards higher-they all use them-600 hr's for HOF

Robert Reboli of NJ 6:20PM July 28, 2009

Rules are rules, standards are standards and are meant to be upheld not lowered... WHATS THE QUESTION?

R Jones of TN 6:08PM July 28, 2009

I think that baseball allowed the use of perforce enhancing druges,cause it was paying dividens for the owners,now thats its unpoplar and not a money making machine they are reliogusly against those accused

Esmeraldo A. Pruneda Jr. of TX 5:51PM July 28, 2009

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER LET THEM IN

MOISES of FL 4:29PM July 28, 2009

No Player proven to have cheated in ANY way, i.e, performance enhancing drugs and gambling on one's own team should EVER be allowed in the HOF. I would go so far as to having a commission naming those showing positive test results and banning them from the HOF forever! Period, no excuses. Good bye A-FRAUD, Goodbye SOSA, GOODBYE McGwire, Goodbye CLemens, goodbye anyone who has been shown to use the needle. Good riddance. By the way - I'm a YANKEES fan, I think signing A-Fraud was a total waste of money - I hope we never win with him on the team.

Manny M. of CT 3:23PM July 28, 2009

While there is enough blame to go all the way around MLB, twice, for the steroid era, I think we dedicated fans need to single out the one man most culpable: Alan H. "Bud" Selig. He was an abject failure as a used car salesman, and took that type of incompetence to new levels as an MLB owner. While still an owner, he became "acting" Commissioner of Baseball in 1992, and was then elected to the office of "pretending" to be Commissioner in 1998. He orchestrated the lockout/cancellation of the 1994 season, and his lack of leadership, spine, and sense has crippled MLB ever since.
Steroid use was rampant, pervasive, and not even investigated throughout Selig's first dozen+ years as the supposed steward of the game. He is the individual most responsible for the increased use among athletes, not just in MLB, but throughout pro and amateur sports down to the high school level.
How he has remained the owners' puppet for so long is beyond me, except to guess that they doubt they can find another village idiot who will remain so loyal to them while still allowing them to enjoy their greedfest. Everyone should also remember him hosting the 2002 All-Star game in Miller Park. That ended in a 7-7 tie after 11 innings, and not because of rail like the 1961 exhibition. If he ever gets a plaque in Cooperstown's executive hall, I hope it shows only the back of his head. He has been looking the other way forever, so this would be most appropriate.

Trosmok of IN 3:05PM July 28, 2009