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

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What Mike wrote is a crock! Listen, the ONLY way Cooperstown maintains one shred of credibility is to ban all those who were proven to take performance enhancing drugs!
Is it Babe's fault he never faced a black pitcher? Segregation, while obviously a derogitory stain on the public as a whole at the time, was not the ball players fault. On the flip side, it is like saying that no black pitcher during the era would deserve the right to be in the hall of fame for not facing the Babe. This would be equally as ludicris to state!
Performance enhancing drugs are a cheaters choice! Ban them all from the shrine should they be found guilty!

Mike of TX 1:43PM July 28, 2009

Cheaters and liars should not be in the hall of fame.

Dan of TX 12:45PM July 28, 2009

Babe Ruth also had the benefit of never facing Negro League pitchers. Let's face it, stats prior to Jackie Robinson are substantially tainted. Not long after integration, players began to regularly used amphetamines, a practice which continued into the steroid era, but HOFers and fans who from the 60's and 70's who act sanctimoniously about steroids conveniently forget that this era was rife with performance enhancing drug use, meaning Hank Aaron's former HR record is tainted. Greenies were a part of the game in Aaron's prime longer than the length of time that Bonds took steroids (which many believe began after the 1997 season).
Unless a record was set by someone with the career lasting only from the late-40's through the late 50's, it's tainted in at least shape or form.

Mike of DC 7:18AM July 28, 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 1:53AM July 28, 2009

resubmitting...
lets get over it america....we think the big guys are the players earning millions....and lets get over that this GM allowed this or that...the bottom line is that the persons earning or making more money than the players backed everything that was going on...and everyone else knew what was going on....SO IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT NEEDS TO GOING AFTER ITS THE OWNERS....they are the ones who pocketed the BIG BUCKS....else lets forget the whole thing.

jim of CA 12:24AM July 28, 2009

lets get over it america....we think the ig guys are the players earning millions....and lets get over that this GM allowed this or that...the bottom line is that the persons earning or making more money than the players backed everything that was going on...and everyone else knew what was going on....SO IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT NEEDS TO GOING AFTER ITS THE OWNERS....they are the ones who pocketed the IG BUCKS....else lets forget the whole thing.

jim of CA 12:18AM July 28, 2009

How can anyone put the names of steroid users on a Home Run Hitters list with Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Roger Maris etc? Steroid Bums should have an asterisk list. Also Babes #3 should be retired by every Major League Team

Frank Fosco of IL 5:59PM July 27, 2009

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson should be admitted before any of the 'roids abusers are even considered. Personally, I think the HOF should steer clear of ARod, Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro, Sosa, McGwire and ManRam or any other 'roids abuser. It's the HOF and not the Hall of Shame.

Marc B of CA 4:21PM July 27, 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 4:15PM July 27, 2009

You know being a big fan of the long ball, I must say that I'm dissappointed with the "Elite" of the sport. Here resently you have seen many of them turn there back on baseball because they know they cheated baseball! Society has even seen it. These "Elite" players don't even try and come to the "plate" anymore because they truely know who the single-season HR king is: ROGER MARIS, from good ol' Fargo North Dakota....But yet the hall won't let roger in? Here is a man who never cheated the Game, the Fans, and played the game as it should of been played-CLEAN!!!

jOHN dAVISON of ND 4:04PM July 27, 2009