Baseball Hall of Fame

My brief thoughts on this whole Baseball Hall of Fame vote.

I have no issue with players not being elected to the hall if they had any connection at all to steriods. 

If I could vote...which I sure as heck can't

Craig Biggio would have gotten my vote.

Mike Piazza probably would have gotten my vote as a Mets fan.  He'd definitely have it if there were absolutely NO suspicion that he did steroids.  There isn't much suspicion on Piazza but there is some.  Same goes for Jeff Bagwell.  I believe both admitted to using "andro" for a little bit.  Andro is a steroid.  However they (I know Piazza did and I assume Bagwell) claimed they stopped using it after no noticeable gains from it. 

I have never been a fan of Mark McGwire in the Hall of Fame.  He doesn't even have 1,700 hits.  Sammy Sosa also is not someone I would have voted for.  Too much evidence of steroid use and I don't think his numbers would have been as good without using. 

Barry Bonds is interesting.  I could make a case against him pretty easily.  He pretty much without a doubt cheated. 

However, before the 2000 season in which Bonds numbers started to go up magically, Bonds was probably a Hall of Famer.  He also has the most career walks, which actually in some ways is hall of fame worthy.  (I am sure steroid use lead to him being walked more because he was a more feared hitter with steroids than with out them)

I doubt I would have voted for Bonds but I wouldn't have been mad if he got in. 

There was also a caller on a New York radio show that compared the Baseball Hall of Fame not taking anyone due to a witch hunt to find steroid users is wrong and is like McCarthyism.  This is just the latest proof that fans are nuts.  Don't compare the two.