martybegan
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With the 2014 Hall of Fame Election, one thing is clear. The PED era sluggers and pitchers will be clogging the ballot for the next decade or so. There are enough people who don't care about PED's to keep them on the ballot, and enough people who refuse to vote for ANYONE even remotely connected to PED's to prevent the know guilty and the accused from ever getting in for the near future.
What that does is screw over those guys who took years to work their way up the chain to getting elected. It also screws over guys like Piazza and Bagwell who are under suspicion for the simple fact that they are/were big guys.
The Hall has to take care of business, by either 1) disqualify those who have been proven, either via testing or testimony, and 2) instruct the writers that PED suspicion is not a criteria to be considered in the voting
or they need to say PED's in general should not be considered.
What that does is screw over those guys who took years to work their way up the chain to getting elected. It also screws over guys like Piazza and Bagwell who are under suspicion for the simple fact that they are/were big guys.
The Hall has to take care of business, by either 1) disqualify those who have been proven, either via testing or testimony, and 2) instruct the writers that PED suspicion is not a criteria to be considered in the voting
or they need to say PED's in general should not be considered.