To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Mark McGwire admitted on Monday that he used steroids back when he played in the ’90s. Regular readers of this blog already know how I feel about the Steroid Era in baseball, so I won’t bore you with my indignation and anger, but it’s a real shame that we’re seeing yet another big player admit to cheating the system.
I’m going to keep this brief: the Hall of Fame voters need to think and decide to do one of two things.
1. Not elect anyone from the steroid era (or, if they want to be softer, anyone who has steroid suspicions, but that’s hazier)
2. Take a firm, formal stance on how they feel about actively cheating the system and adopt an asterisk policy for confirmed users to mark that their records are not all natural.
Those are the two best ideas I’ve got on the matter.
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